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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 1 



WIDETIRKD WHEELBARROWS, ETC. 



I inclose a slip. Please give your careful attention. 

 The past three months I've had to vfheel a great deal 

 of CO il at the a.sylum, and I fully believe that some- 

 thing of that kind is what is needed. 



Traverse City, Mich. R. Hadley. 



The slip referred to reads as follows: 



Wide-tired wagons are becoming common. Now 

 why in the name of common sense don't some enter- 

 prising manufacturer give us a wide tired wheelbar- 

 row, ora wide-tired wheel-hoe? 



We .sometimes wonder whether wheelbarrow-mak- 

 ers ever attempted to wheel one of their barrows over 

 a bit of soft ground ! We also wonder if these same 

 makers ever stopped to think that the wheel might be 

 placed further back so as to take most of the load- 

 weight off from a man's arms? 



We doubt whether any wheelbarrow-manufacturer 

 ever did these things ; for, if he had. he never would 

 be content to go on year after year, turning out the 

 same identical kind of barrow that came over in the 

 Mavflower. 



What's the sense of putting the wheel way in front 

 so that nearly all the weight comes on a man's shoul- 

 ders? Why not place the wheel near the center and 

 more under the load ? 



And, too. are wide tired wheels such unheard-of 

 things that barrow-manufacturers need to be told of 

 the advantages of using them? 



Friend H., while in Florida I heard a 

 great inany inquiries for a wide-tired wheel- 

 barrow. I suppose that, in the sandj^ soil 

 of Northern Michigan, where you are, the 

 conditions are much the same. Our Daisy 

 wheelbarrow formerly had a tire 1^2 inches 

 wide. The last carload has tires 1;'4 inches 

 wide. If I am correct, soft sandy soils 

 would need 25^ or 3 inches. But you will 

 find a difficulty right here. Unless there 

 is a wooden felloe inside of the tire, the 

 soft sand or mud will rtin in and pile up 

 on the inside of the wheel, and make it run 

 harder than a narrow tire or one filled 

 with wood so as to prevent sand or mud 

 from running in a^s I have described. A 

 tire 3 inches wide filled with wood makes 

 a heavy, clumsy wheel. The same objec- 

 tion applies to wide-tired wagon-wheels 

 made of thin sheet steel. A good many 

 times they are heavier to draw than coin- 

 mon wagons. There are wheelbarrows 

 made where the load is thrown pretty well 

 over the wheel; but if I am rig-ht they are 

 not generally liked. It is true the wheel 

 sustains the greater part of the load; but 

 it sinks into the ground worse, and is not 

 so easy to turn. If you had a chance to 

 try all kinds of wheelbarrows, one after 

 the other, I think you would decide the man- 

 ufacturers of the Daisy have got it about 

 as nearly right — that is, for most localities 

 — as it CJin be made. You may not be aware 

 that there has been a great deal of experi- 

 menting on this very thing. 



ADVERTISING SECRETS, ETC. 

 In one of our tigricultural papers I found 

 a very enticing advertisement to the effect 

 that a secret would be sent to any one on 

 receipt of 25 cents, for making 3 lbs. of but- 

 ter from 1 lb. The butter was to be of ex- 

 tra quality, and even a child could make it, 

 and with this process any one cotild get 

 rich, for butter will alwaj's sell anywhere 

 in the world. I presume the editor of the 



above paper never thought that he might 

 send the 25 cents him.self, and do his whole 

 list of readers a big lot of good (?) without 

 its costing them a cent. Perhaps he thought 

 it was not his affair. But I decided, as 

 soon as I saw the advertisement, that it was 

 ;;/)' affair, especially where I could help so 

 manj^ people for so small an investment. 

 Here is the wonderful secret: 



TO M.^KE THREE POUNDS OF BUTTER FROM ONE 

 POUND. 



Takeone pound of fresh churned butter (not salted), 

 and put in suitable vessel while warm and soft. Add 

 the yelks of three eggs. Mix well together, then add 

 (slowly) warm sweet milk (just milked from the 

 cow), and beat rapidly with a spoon as you add the 

 milk. The butter and eggs will take up the milk, 

 slowly until you have three pounds of butter. When 

 it quits taking up the milk as you pour it i", it is done. 

 Then salt and mold as other butter. Not much work- 

 ing required. J. E. Mollette, Ridgeley, Tenn. 



May be the above is all right; but I can 

 not help wondering what will happen to 

 this eggy mixture if it should not be used 

 up in three or four days during hot weather. 

 Never mind. If it turns out all right j'ou 

 can send your thanks to me on a postal card. 



15 Months for $1.00! 



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 will send it 



From October I, 1901, to 

 the End of 1902, 



or 15 months ; which means over 60 copies 

 This we will do as long as we have back 

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 scription will begin at the time it is received 

 and continue to the end of 1902. 



The Buffalo Convention Report 



will appear in full in the American Bee Jour- 

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 Better subscribe noiv. No matter what other 

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