(;!.ea:nings in bee culture. 



Oct. 



]y. In conclusion, let nie say; Never have more 

 than three stands at a time. Don't let j^our hunt- 

 ing--box or combs get scented, for at times scent 

 should not be used. When running bees near an 

 apiary, its use would be a disadvantage. Never 

 quarrel over bee-trees, tor— 



Oh! above all things on this side the sod, 



Have peace with thy neighbor and peace with thy Uod. 



WiLi.,iAM K. Gould. 



Fremont, Mich., July 15, 1887. 



Friend G., we are exceedingly obliged to 

 you for tlie suggestions you have given in 

 regard to bee-hunting tliat have not appear- 

 eci before in print — at least, to my knowl- 

 edge ; and while it may be true that it is in 

 only a few localities that it will pay in dol- 

 lars and cents to hunt bees, it certainly pays 

 in the additional knowledge we gain in re- 

 gard to the instincts of this wonderful in- 

 sect. There are a great many facts in re- 

 gard to the habits of bees that we should 

 never have discovered had it not been for 

 bee-hunting; and this thing alone will al- 

 ways make it intensely attractive to me. 

 Wliile 1 write, the sun is pouring in upon 

 us on this beautiful October morning, giv- 

 ing promise of a delightful Indian-summer 

 day. And what bee-keeper's heart would 

 not bound at the thought of a day of bee- 

 hunting during this season of the year? If 

 some friend can go along who hives God 

 and bis works, and is well versed in natural 

 history, what an additional charm it lends ! 

 Bee-hunters are generally a wild, free sort 

 of people, and when oft' in the woods they 

 are almost always ready to gather nuts, 

 catch fish, or take hold of any thing the 

 Jields and woods offer, no matter if they do 

 start out expressly to hunt bees. Neighbor 

 11. informed us yesterday that, on one of 

 his farms mushrooms were so plentiful that 

 he gathered a tubful in just a little while. 

 I wonder if the readers of Gleanings are 

 familiar with mushrooms, and know what a 

 gift from God they are. If not. I will try 

 to tell you something about it at another 

 time. — Friend G., especially do we thank 

 you for the sentiment at the close of your 

 article, expressed in poetry. 



THE WASHBURN ENGINE. 



AN KNGINE ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOK BEE-HIVE 

 MAKERS. 



fllE Washburn Engine Co. is manufac- 

 turing an engine here in Medina 

 which is not only able to run at ordi- 

 nary speeds, but lias even attained 

 the rate of oOOO revolutions per min- 

 ute. This engine was invented about three 

 years ago. Its construction is such that it 

 will not rack nor wear out, even at this high 

 speed, like the common piston engine. In 

 principle it is rotary, but is so constructed 

 as to do away with many of the defects 

 which hitherto have characterized the ro- 

 tary engine. Space forbids our going into 

 details of construction, to show how these 

 defects have been overcome. It is enough 

 to say, that, while we at first may have 

 shared the common distrust of a rotary, aft- 

 er having watched it here in Medina for two 

 years and a half in its practical working 

 harness, and having recently subjected it to 



a thorough test in our own factory, we can 

 say that we have found the engine in actual 

 practice to be all that is claimed for it in 

 theory, and eminently satisfactory. 



In consequence of the increased subscrip- 

 tion-list of our journal (nearly 8000), we have 

 been obliged to run over-hours. Hitherto we 

 have been under the necessity of running 

 our large engine, 90 horse-power, and ail the 

 line shafting, some 400 feet, simply to run 

 the press in the main building. This cer- 

 tainly was not economy. Accordingly, we 

 recently bought a 4-horse-power AVasliburn 

 rotary engine. It was set up in the press- 

 room, about 100 feet from the large boiler 

 which supplies it with steam. When we 

 negotiated for it we did not design to have 

 it run any thing more than our large cylin- 

 der press. The first day's running, how- 

 ever, showed that it had an easy task ; and 

 the press, though requiring a considerable 

 amount of power, kept up the same speed 

 that it did when run by our large engine. 

 We then put on our paper-cutter and small 

 job press, with no apparent flagging in mo- 

 tion. 



Kecently, in the presence of the secretary 

 and superintendent of the company, vie 

 gave it a further test. After putting on the 

 two presses and the paper-cutter, we hitch- 

 ed on 100 feet of line shafting. The little 

 engine didn't even then seem to feel the 

 load; and one merely observing it would 

 not be able to detect that it was running 

 more machinery, except as he saw the gov- 

 ernor-valve open wider. We then put on two 

 engine-lathes, each cutting quite large chips 

 of iron, and still no diminution of speed ; 

 then our deep well-pump, a large emery 

 wheel for grinding planer-knives, and. last 

 of all, a buzz-saw, were thrown on. All the 

 machines were doing work, and yet it seem- 

 ed as if we should never reach the capacity 

 of the engine. Just as we were putting on 

 another buzz-saw the belt flew off from the 

 drive-wheel of the little giant— the latter 

 abundantly proving that it could do all we 

 required of it. 



During the time that these machines were 

 put on, Ihe steam-gauge showed <iO lbs.— a 

 fair average pressure. Recently, while mak- 

 ing some repairs in the machine-shop, we 

 ran 100 feet of line shafting along with the 

 necessary counter-shafts — in fact, the whole 

 machine-shop — with this little rotary, while 

 it was running the large and the small press 

 at the same time. 



In shutting down our saw-room at the 

 completion of the day's work we have, as a 

 rule, about 60 lbs. of steam left in the large 

 boiler. Formerly this pressure was left in 

 the boiler — a power, as you might say, con- 

 lined only by iron bars and iron sheeting. 

 Since the purchase of the little engine we 

 have utilized this pressiur. We find, after 

 several careful tests, that this 60 lbs. of 

 steam in our 60-horse-power boiler at a 

 distance of 100 ft. from the engine will run 

 the engine, with press attached, an hour and 

 thiee-quarters, without additional firing of 

 the boiler-furnace. 



We regard these tests, not to speak of 

 others which we have seen in the Washburn 

 shops and elsewhere, as conclusive evidence 



