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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $1.00 A YEAR. 

 W. Z. flOTCHINSON. Editor and Proprietor. 



VOL. XIX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JAN. 15, 1906. NO. 1 



H. L. HUTCHINSON. 



TT was easier for me to make this 

 ^ horse-power than it will be to de- 

 scribe it; and if I had known that "W. 

 Z." would ever have come prowling- 

 around here with his camera, I could 

 have made a nicer frame for it. 



The posts are 20 feet apart, and set 

 into the g-round four feet. The cross- 

 beam is seven feet above the ground, 

 so that the horse can walk under it. 

 The middle, or revolving- post, is made 

 of a 2 X 10, second-growth, oak plank. 

 It must be strong- and toug-h to stand 

 the strain. There is a round tenon on 

 the bottom end, with an iron band 

 driven on tight, and it rests on 

 an iron plate, so that the constant 

 turning will not wear down into the 

 block and allow the gearing to sag out 

 of line. 



The sweep is IJi feet from the center 

 to the eye-bolt, and the lead-pole does 

 not show in the picture. Two svveeps 

 . id two horses could be used. 



he gearing is part of an old mower 

 with the axle in a perpendicular posi- 

 tion. A large part of the main frame 



is cut oflP as it would be a useless 

 weight. The axle was taken out, and 

 a blacksmith split the right hand end 

 and made it like a big clevis, then it 

 was put back in the gearing box from 

 the /^/^ /land side so the long end w^uld 

 hang down. 



The weight of the gearing and box 

 ifiiisi rest on the top of the plank post. 

 The axle supports nothing but it's own 

 weight, so there will be no friction, or 

 bearing down, on the gear-wheels. I 

 spent hours planning and measuring 

 to get this adjusted y«.y^ rig/ii so that it 

 would run free and easy. The beam 

 does no/ support the vs^eight of the 

 gearing; it simply /loldsit up in p/ace. 



The /a// post is the mast for a wind 

 mill that can be used to run the short 

 shaft and belt-wheel, and the horse- 

 power will be thrown out of gear when 

 the wind mill is used. I intend to use 

 the horse-power for sawing pole-wood, 

 and (-he wind-mill for pumping water 

 or rir.i.iing small machin'^r'. in the 

 shop. The long shaft makes 30 revolu- 

 tions to one round of the horse, and the 



