

THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



belt-wheel makes 52, or about 240 per 

 minute. 



If anyone wishes to make just a 

 horse power alone, I would advise 

 two short posts with no bevel-gear like 

 mine; simply let the long shaft extend 

 out past the post long enough to put on 

 a belt wheel, then use a /ar^-er wheel to 

 get the speed on the saw, and run the 

 belt under two idler pulleys down near 

 the ground so it would not be above the 

 saw-table in the way for making bee- 

 hives. 



If I were making it just to run a 

 buzz-saw, I should make it in this way; 

 but I made mine to saw wood, shell 

 corn, grind feed, pump water or do any 

 such work. 



To steady the beam in the middle, 

 there are two guy wires fastened to 

 trees, but a post could be set 10 feet 

 away, opposite the middle and a guy 

 pole run from it to the beam. 



A short block is set in the ground, 

 half way between the posts, with a 

 short oak plank spiked on top, firmly 

 braced, with a hole in the plank, but 



not in the block, and an iron plate is 

 fastened in right under this hole. 

 There is an iron plate on each side of 

 the plank where the clevis joins it. 



The materials did not cost very much 

 for they are all parts of old machines, 

 and my time was odd hours when I had 

 no other work; it is amusement or rec- 

 reation, for me to rig up machinery. 



Do not expect or try to do heavy 

 work with a small power like this — it 

 is not a ten horse-power engine. 



The gearing was taken from a Deer- 

 ing mower, but other mowers have the 

 same kind of gearing and can be used 

 just as well. The bevel gear is out of 

 a Deering binder, so if I ever break 

 any gear wheels I can get duplicate 

 parts in Mayville at the Deering 

 agency. 



Now I wish some one would tell me 

 how to fix it so I can use the wind-m'U 

 and horse-power both at the same tim. 

 and thus get double- power — some so»t 

 of a spring-clutch that will slip when 

 the wind blows hard. 



Mayville, Mich., Dec. 14, 1905. 



tlie iFiicrease of Ip' 



M. A. GILL. 



EDITOR REVIEW:— I have care- 

 fully read your article in the No- 

 vember Review, upon the Control of 

 Increase, and I wish to say that it is 

 such articles as that, coming in an 

 editorial way, that make bee journals 

 worth reading; and, if you will con- 

 tinue to write good, long, sensible edi- 

 torials, upon live subjects, and throw 

 irto the waste basket the dry, old re- 

 ports of year-old-bee-conventions, to- 

 gether with the tveedle twaddle writ- 

 ings of would-be inventors, then you 



will have the best journal published— 

 if you haven't got it now. 



THE LANGSTROTH HIVE STILL AT THE 

 HEAD. 



Really, there has been no hive in- 

 vented, that interests the practical bee- 

 keeper who is putting large quantities 

 of honey upon the market, since the 

 invention of Langstroth; nothing in 

 foundation and sections since Root 

 first put them out. And in the control 

 of increase we are just beginning to 



