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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ACHAPTEK FROM KEAE LIFE. 



ILLUSTRATED BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. 



MR. MERRY RANKS, having read 

 "Blessed Bees 1 ', has become enthusi- 

 — ' astic on the subject of bee culture. 

 As he has all his life considered that "the 

 best is the cheapest, 1 ' he decides to have 

 nothing to do with "'dollar queens,' 1 but he 

 sends $7.50 for an imported queen in the 

 month of April. She comes to hand all right, 

 and he contemplates her markings and gen- 

 eral appearance with much satisfaction. 



MR. MERRY BANKS CONTEMPLATES HIS 

 QUEEN, RIGHT FROM SUNNY ITALY. 



He goes to his apiary (consisting of one 

 hive), and proceeds to introduce her. While 

 making the necessary preparation, he builds 

 some air castles Idled with imaginary 

 swarms of bees, the progeny of this same 

 golden queen, and pictures to himself the 

 satisfaction he will take in seeing them in- 

 crease and prosper under his indefatigable 

 care. He also thinks of the pride he will 

 take in showing his queen to his friends, 

 Brown and Jones, when they come round 

 some evening to see how his strawberries, 

 tomatoes, etc., prosper. 



After the lapse of 4b hours, he proceeds to 

 open the hive and release her, but, to his 

 dismay, instead of going down among the 

 combs, she takes wing and soars aloft in the 

 balmy air. 



He also thinks of several other things, and 

 wonders if it would not have been well to 

 have used a cheaper queen until he had had 

 a little more practice, and resolves that if he 

 ever gets hold of her again, he will take the 

 scissors and spoil her "dying apparatus," 

 even if it does spoil her "fair proportions" 

 somewhat. 



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SMITH'S FOOT POWER BEZZSAW. 



SO many questions have been asked in re- 

 H| gard to this, since the notice on page 105 

 • of last month, that we had friend Smith 

 furnish us the following views and measure- 

 ments. In the drawing below, we have a 

 sectional side view, tig. Ill, a sectional end 

 view, fig. I, a sectional top view, tig. II. 



AS HE SEES HER RISK lllUlIi^K AND HIGHER 



AT EVERY CIRCUIT SHE MAKES. HE 



THINKS OF HIS S7.50. 



SMITH S FOOT POWER BUZZ-SAW T . 



The frame is 3+ ft. high, 3ft. long, and 2 ft. 

 8 inches broad. The diameter of the tiy 

 wheel is 3 ft. 2 in., and its weight 100 lbs. 

 The size of the pulley on the saw mandrel 

 is 3 in. The belt is 2 in., oak tanned, and 

 cost him 15c. per foot. The shaft to the bal- 

 ance wheel is prolonged, and carries a pulley, 

 1), 9 inches in diameter, for attaching power. 

 Fig. IV is the treadle. I presume a me- 

 chanic will readily understand the other 

 parts by the drawings. The frame is to be 

 made of some hard wood, and the dimen- 

 sions of the stuff are not at all important. 

 This saw is one of the slow motion saws. A 

 large saw, <s or 10 inches in diameter, is bet- 

 ter, for it gives greater speed to the rim. I 

 am inclined to think this slow motion will 

 not give a very smooth cut. 



OCR NEW BEVELED CORNER. 



Since the invention 

 of the mat for cover- 

 ing the frames, we 

 have made the Sim- 

 plicity hives with the 

 corner joint like the 

 cut opposite. It pre- 

 sents the same finish- 

 ed appearance as the 



straight bevel, and, with proper machinery, 

 is little, if any, more work to make. It also 

 makes a stronger corner, when thoroughly 

 cross-nailed. 



