THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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frequent experiments last season, and at no 

 time did I yet less than seventeen queen cell?, 

 and commonly, from twenty to thirty-two, 

 and as line queens from them as I ever 

 reared, or ever saw. 

 Patten's Mills, N. Y., May 23. 1S!)2. 



The "Walk Over" Foundation Fastener. 



T enclose you a 

 1 photograph of 

 my device for 

 putting si arters in 

 sections. This is 

 the device that I 

 wrote you about 

 last winter after 

 reading .Jan. 1.5th 

 Gleanings, and 

 finding that E. R. 

 Root had invent- 

 ed the same prin- 

 ciple and presented it to the readers of that 

 valuable journal. I did not present my in- 

 vention to that journal for publication, hav- 

 ing, at that time, two other articles sent 

 there for publication. The last one sent 

 appeared in the May number, bearing the 

 title of the first article, thus giving both 

 methods in the one article, which shows the 

 wisdom of the editor. 



Not seeing Mr. Root's device in the 

 Extracted Department of the Review, I 

 thought jour readers ought to have a view 

 of one of the most valuable implements 



*J. A. Golden is 58 years old. He was born in 

 Morgan Co, Ohio. At 15 he was apijreuticed to 

 the harness and saddle maker's trade Five 

 years later he went to Decorah, I .wa, where he 

 engaged in the liarn-ss busin^ss t^r one year, 

 whea he joined a company of Winnebago Indi- 

 ans on a two month hunting and trapping expe- 

 dition that took them 2UU milfs above St! Paul, 

 Minn Upon his return to civiliz dioii he steer- 

 ed for his native State, and finally settled down 

 at Steubenville, where he marricil Miss Matilda 

 Myers. In 1 liU he moved to Meilin.i, Ohio, where 

 he again engaged in harness making for three 

 years, when he returm-d to S'("ul)eiivil!e, and 

 took np photography. City life not being fa- 

 vorable to his health, he and his companion 

 travelled, working at his profession and teach- 

 ing vocal music. In 1S70 he settled down in 

 Reinersville hie present home, and erected 

 buildings suitable for his businrss. His father 

 had been quite a " bee man" in his day, and 

 now that Mr. Golden felt that he was settled in 

 life, tlie delights of his boyhood's days with 

 bees kept running through Ids nund, until in 

 1W7. he finally decided to unite l)ee keeping with 

 photography. Being of an inventive turn of 

 mind, many ingenious contrivances are continu- 

 ally being added to an already bountiful supply. 

 He has been a church member 44 years, being 

 an official member of the M. E. church for a 

 quarter of a century. 



ever presented to the fraternity for the pur- 

 pose of putting starters in sections. 



My apparatus ( the " walk over " ) is cheap- 

 ly constructed, as follows : Take a joard 

 two feet eight inches long, seven inches 

 wide, and saw a "boot jack" in one end 

 three inches wide, and as deep as you like. 

 Next take a board eighteen inches long and 

 five inches wide, and mortise a slot five 

 inches from one end, three-eights wide and 

 three inches and seven-eights long crosswise 

 of the board. (Ju the short end from the 

 mortise nail on a spacing block three and 

 three-quarters inches long by three and 

 seven-eights inches wide, and seven-eights 

 inches thick, close to the slot. Below the 

 slot, but even with it, nail on a section shelf 

 five inches wide and two and one-half inches 

 long. For braces or legs take strips two 

 inches wide tapered to one inch, the wide 

 end halved in each side of '" boot-jack." 

 A two-inch-deep box shelf is put in ten 

 inches below the base of heating plate, and 

 a hole cut in box to receive the bowl of lamp 

 and thus avoid an accident. On the right 

 side of Ump box is tacked a foundation 

 box. Take a strip of tin seven inches long, 

 one and one-quarter inches at one end and 

 two inches at the other, bend so as to form a 

 spout, tacking the narrow end on top of the 

 farther end of " boot-jack," and one edge 

 of the wide end on the front. Have under 

 the spout a small tin cup made from an 

 oyster can which receives any melted wax 

 when operating. A melted plate three and 

 seven-eights inches wide and three inches 

 long is placed on top at right angles and 

 held in place by two screws. On the lower 

 end of the short, or section board, place 

 two hinges, and place the board at its proper 

 place by holding the hinges down with one 

 hand and moving the board back and for- 

 ward on the heating plate, letting the plate 

 rub the upper side of the slot. Fasten the 

 hinges and put in a spiral spring five inches 

 above the hinged end of the section board ; 

 the spring forces the section board from the 

 heater. This completes the "walk over" 

 machine. 



To learn to operate it, one has only to 

 look and see little Flody pick up a section 

 with her left hand from a table and a starter 

 with her right hand from the foundation 

 box. placing section over the spacer with the 

 starter on the spacer near the bottom, 

 slightly pressing with each thumb on the 

 starter, when a slight push with the hand 



