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for the hopper and one for the plat- 

 form; but that has no particular bear- 

 injj;^ upon the point we have under con- 

 sideration. The battery used is one 

 of the ordinary, dry-cell batteries such 

 as are used for telephones, door bells, 

 or for furnishing- a spark for gasoline 

 engines. Be sure and get a good t)at- 

 terj'. If you can get only the cheapest 

 kind, better get two cells and connect 

 them, as the connections upon the scale 

 beam are not as close as are usually 

 made when a door bell is set up, and 

 it requires a good strong current to 

 overcome these imperfect connections, 

 and ring the bell. It won't answer to 

 depend upon a bell that does not 

 always ring — better have none at all. 

 In the cut, the battery sits upon the 

 window sill, and, above it, fastened to 

 the window casing, is the bell. The 

 wires will show how the connections 

 are made. I have put two pieces of 

 white paper on the scales to show more 

 distinctly the course of the wires where 

 they are fastened to, or approach, the 

 beam. One wire is coiled around the 

 back end of the beam, and the other 

 passes over a wooden post, and the end 

 projects out just over the outer end of 

 the beam, and. when the beam rises 

 up, because the can is full, it touches 

 the wire and completes the circuit, thus 

 ringing the bell. 



If the wire used in making connec- 

 tions is not pretty heavy and stiff, 

 better nail a block to the top of the 

 piece of board that supports the wire 

 where it projects over the scale-beam, 

 letting the block project over the wire 



where it passes above the scale-beam, 

 then when the beam rises it will press 

 the wire between itself and the block, 

 and thus get a more perfect connection 

 than would be the case if the beam 

 simply raised against a slim, pliable 

 wire that presented very little resist- 

 ance — a block of wood above the wire 

 keeps it firmly in place and allows of 

 pressure. 



You will see that the uncapping, the 

 extracting, the straining and the can- 

 ning, all go along simultaneously, 

 almost automaticall3% and with only 

 one person in charge, unless it is de- 

 sirable to have more. 



From 70 colonies of bees, here at 

 Flint, I have secured about 4,500 

 pounds of the finest clover honey I ever 

 tasted, besides increasing the number 

 of colonies to 102, and this with a poor 

 season; but what strikes me most for- 

 cibly is the small amount of work with 

 which I have accomplished this. Not 

 only this, but it has all been pleasant, 

 agreeable, I might say, easy work — 

 nothing of the strenuous character. 

 This is the kind of bee-keeping I am 

 trying to develop — an extensive busi- 

 ness; a lot of bees, scattered in out- 

 apiaries, but so managed that there 

 will never be any rush nor hurry. 

 There may be a little more money in- 

 vested, yes, and, perhaps a liit/e more 

 work done, but it will all be of the 

 leisurely sort which will allow one to 

 take time to enjoy oneself as the work 

 goes along. 



Flint, Mich., Aug. 27, 1906. 



losmie Mtsclh IDelbatedl Pluysiologncal 



ADRIAN GETAZ. 



e^ri 



'HKRE are some questions th£it are 

 the habit of bobbing up peri- 

 odically in the bee papers, not only 



here, but in Europe as well; and some 

 of these questions have already been 

 thoroughly investigated, and, if not 



