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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUllE. 



. The bees could not be placed in the open air there 

 because black beai-s are plentiful, and the human 

 thieves too numerous. I do not know what kind of 

 bees are there as I never observed them. 

 Evanston, 111., Oct. 16, 1881. I. L. Hausek. 



Cleanincs in Bee Culture, 



PublisJied Srni'i- Monthly . 



.^.. I. I^OOT, 

 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 



MEDINA, O. 



TERMS; $1.00 PER YEAR, POSTPAID. 



For ClvitliiEs Eites, Seo First Pags of 2eid::3 liitter. 



ed to were held in place by set-screws; but we 

 found they sometimes slipped, and thus made bad 

 sections; and more than all that, constant tighten- 

 ing- would spring the shaft; so we made a shaft 

 with a thread running the entire length, also a 

 thread in collar, and a nut to follow collar, and now 

 we have no trouble to set saws or cutters, and have 

 them stay. We have also made improvements in 

 the feed motion, doing awaj- with the screw, or 

 worm, to reduce the motion, and reduce it by means 

 of counter-shafts and pulleys. Our crank-shaft is 

 now horizontal, having a crank at each end, thus 

 ! giving a more steadj^ motion to the table. We have 

 also added a planed iron plate that is placed under 

 the cuttei-s, so when once sot as wanted it will al- 

 ways be true. AVe can furnish machines to make V 

 ■ or square grooves, at S90.C0. This is §1.").00 more 

 I than our old machine, as per former price lists. 



And nothing slii 



Hoity-toity! What do you think? We have got 

 some of the seeds of the Epilohium augustifulhim al- 

 ready up in the greenhouse. The plants are very 

 small — microscopic almost, but we've got 'em. 

 Aren't you glad? 



DISCOUNTS BEIOl'.E KEr.KUAKV I. 



On sections, foundation, and foundation-mills, we 

 still allow a discount of 10 per cent. We also sell 

 10,000 Simplicity sections for S;40.(X) as heretofore. 

 We continue these offers, as wc have a large stock 

 of the above goods in stock, and are anxious tQ sup- 

 ply as many as wc can before the great rush comes. 

 We will also allow a discount of one per cent on or- 

 ders of every description, received before Feb. 1. 



OUR TEN-CENT POUI-TK Y-IJOOK. 



I5y bujing in large quantities, I have been en- 

 abled to get a very pretty little poultry-book of 48 

 pages and 19 illustrations, that we can sell at the 

 very low ])rice of 10 cts. The book is well written, 

 and covers nearly all that is important to success, 

 and does not jjull' any patent medicine. One cent 

 e.vtra for postage, if wanted by nuiil. In the above 

 book I am csp(!cially jileased with some of the 

 cheap designs for po\iltry-houses, such as almost 

 any boy can make in the corner of the doori'ard. 

 The book is usually sold for :;'i cents. 



INK HY MAir, AT l.'i CTS. I>KU I'l.NT. 



May be you all say that can not be, because the 

 P. M. (i. will not allow it. I5ut you see we are 

 ahead of you. Friend Oldroyd has contrived some 

 ink-powders that will make just as good ink as he 

 ever made in the world, simply by dissolving the 

 powders in v,ater. Each package, dissolved in a pint 

 of pure rain water, makes a pint of good ink, and 

 the price is 13 cts. If wanted by mail, add 2 cts. per 

 l)ackage. We have in stock, packages for black, 

 blue, violet, green, or red. Eight packages will be 

 sold for $1.00, or 6J packiiges for $.5.C0. If it ever 

 gets too thick, it can be reduced any time with wa- 

 ter. They will not injure bj' freezing, and do not 

 corrode the pen. 



SOMETHINC AIJOIT OlIJ ONE-l'lECE SECTION .MA- 

 CHINE. 



We ha\ e made such improvements that we think 

 we have the best machine in the market. On our 

 old ipachines the collars that the saws were fasten- 



WHEN DOCTORS DI.SAGREE, WHO SHALL DECIDE? 



In our December number, page S.'SO, Gen. Leggett 

 declared that Forncrook had not then taken an ap- 

 peal. Mr. F. sent us a statement from his lawyer, 

 declaring the appeal to have been taken, and that 

 the clause in Forncrook's price list was fully author- 

 ized. I am sure I do not know who is right in the 

 matter— perhaps both are right— Forncrook mean- 

 ing that steps had been taken to take an appeal, 

 and 1 think Gen. Leggett was certainly correct in 

 saying that Mr. F. had not taken an appeal. Mr. J. 

 A. Osborne, who had charge of the case, writes that 

 on the 6th of Jan., Forncrook filed a bond with the 

 clerk of the Circuit Court, for the purpose of taking 

 an appeal, and I am to-day, Jan. 6th, ollicially noti- 

 fied that such an appeal has now been taken. I do 

 not know that it makes any verj- great difference 

 when the matter is commenced, more than that, if 

 any statements have appeared in Gleanings not 

 strictly true, it was because we were wrongly in- 

 formed; and whenever we are satisfed that we 

 have been wrongly informed, we are always ready 

 to retract. 



(iru NEW machine for making the FOCK-PIECE 

 I DOVETAILED SECTIONS. 



I We shall probably soon have an engraving of this 

 machine, to answer the many inquiries in regard to 

 it. It may be described briefly thus: Imagine a 

 ten-inch circular saw properly hung on a mandrel, 

 directly before your face. Well, now, right under 

 the saw imagine a wooden wheel covered with sand- 

 paper. Suppose both saw and wheel to be running 

 at the proper speed. In front of the sandpapered 

 wheel is a table. On this table you lay your piece 

 of planed plank, dovetailed, of course, on each end. 

 Now, if you lay a piece of plank on this table, and 

 imsh it up against the sandpapered wheel, of course 

 the face end of the plank will be sandpapered. 

 Well, the table on which the plank rests is attached 

 to a frame like the frame of an old-fashioned up- 

 and-down water saw-mill. Hy means of a crank 

 and pitman, this gate has a slow motion up and 

 down, carrying the table with it. Now, this sand- 

 papered wheel stands a little further back than the 

 buzz-saw — just enough back of it so that when the 

 plunk is carried up after being sandpapered, the 

 buzz-saw slices off a piece just thick enough for a 

 section blank. After this blank is sawed off, the 

 table falls until the blank stands once more in front 

 of the sandpapered wheel. Just as soon as it comes 

 in the right position, the operator crowds the plank 

 forward, sandpapers the end as before, and the 



