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lengthened out with more links, is made to 

 drive the rear wheel now placed forward 

 under the saw-table from the crank sprock- 

 et. Directly over this rear wheel is a little 

 pulley that drives the mandrel of the buzz- 

 saw. A suitable belt runs from the hoUow- 

 ed-out rim of the bicycle wheel to the man- 

 drel above. 



The operator places himself on the saddle 

 of the bicycle, his feet on the cranks, when, 

 presto ! he can drive his buzz-saw at a high 

 rate of speed. 



Mr. McNay says that with this home- 

 made outfit he has made different articles of 

 furniture that decorate his home, and also 

 parts of hives, for with this outfit he ca.i 

 make almost anything he desires, and at the 



same time it affords him much pleasure. 



It should be observed in this connection 

 that Mr. Frank McNay tested out the first 

 Cowan reversible extractor we ever made. 

 Knowing him to be an extensive beekeeper, 

 and capable of judging of the merits of a 

 new device of this sort, we sent him our 

 first model; and when he pronounced it 

 good we went ahead and put the machine 

 on the market — practically the same ma- 

 chine bearing today the name of the "Cow- 

 an two-frame rapid extractor." 



Mr. F. R. Buchanan, likewise retired, 

 takes his playspells with his big powerful 

 automobile and with the bees. He knows 

 every beekeeper in the vicinity, for he has 

 motored all over the country. 



PUT A GUARD OVER YOUR SAW 



BY MAJOR SHALLARD 



I have an iron guard over mine now ; but 

 if I had only put it over earlier I would 

 now have two hands (see p. 863, Oct. 15). 



Possibly some particulars of my mishap 

 may be of interest. I was ripping top-bars 

 when my foot slipped on the sawdust, and 

 my left hand came in contact with the saw, 

 cutting the palm across and the thumb off 

 at the bottom joint. ■ As soon as I saw what 

 the trouble was I grabbed the arteries, stop- 

 ped the engine with my foot, and started 

 off down the road for help. My object was 

 to get away before my wife saw the hand, 

 as she has heart trouble. After going about 

 a mile I met a man in a sulky, and got a 

 ligature around one wrist and a towel over 

 the hand, which then did not look so bad. 

 I sent the sulky for Mrs. Shallard; and 

 when she came we went into Woodburn 

 (two miles), and I tried to ring up the 

 Coraki doctor, eleven miles away. Failing 

 in this we got a car and started for the 

 Corald hospital. On' the way " the neces- 

 sary " got running away from me so fast 

 that I asked my wife if she could tie her 

 handkex'chief around the wrist. She man- 

 aged it all right, although she got her hands 



covered with blood, and she usually faints 

 if she sees a cut finger. She held up very 

 bravely all through, and I say thank Grod 

 for a good wife. 



We reached the hospital at 1 :10, or one 

 and a half hours after the mishap, and T 

 had to wait until 3 :20 for another doctor 

 from Lisinore. 20 miles away. They oper- 

 ated then, and I woke up at 1 o'clock next 

 morning minus everything but the palm, 

 but feeling good and happy. They were 

 very kind in the hospital; and as my wife 

 stayed and looked after me we had quite a 

 jolly time. In fourteen days I left the 

 hospital with nearly all the outside wounds 

 healed, which shows I had very little poison 

 in my system. Had I been a whisky-drink- 

 er I should probably have come out feel 

 first. 



It is five weeks today since the accident, 

 and the hand is getting on nicely, although 

 it will not be ready for work for some time 

 to come. Meanwhile my son Phil is hust- 

 ling the business wagon along, and I am 

 occupying a box seat, looking out for 

 stumps. 



S. Woodburn, N. S. W., Sept. 19. 



TURNING FRAMES 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN 



Dr. C. C. Miller gives me permission to 

 go through " three motions in place of one 

 in turning a frame over." Probably he is 

 like myself, and has never attended a mov- 

 ing-picture show. Let me ask Dr. Miller 

 how he can turn a frame sidewise with one 

 movement ? What is one movement ? Is a 

 circle drawn out of one line? How many 

 straight lines are there in a circle? 



However, doctor, I was not addressing 

 you. When people have kept bees as long 

 as you and I have I suspect that combs can 

 be held in any position with safetj^, espe- 

 cially wlien the combs are allowed to stay 

 in the hives until the bees themselves chew 

 down the walls and rebuild them. Even in 

 our climate it is not safe to hold new comb 



