1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1453 



Now, may be I shall get sued and put in jail, 

 or be sent to the penitentiary for violating the 

 patent laws; but the sheet of paper printed in red 

 ink did not tell when the patenc was granted. It 

 has no date on it, and just one single signature. 

 If I get put in jail I amsure the great lot of friends 

 1 have will help me to get out quick. 



CHURNLESS BUTTER — STILL MORE ABOUT IT. 



Mr. A. I. Root.— The churnless-butter process is no fake nor 

 humbug, as your friend H. VV. Collingwood puis it. It is just 

 what it claims to be, for I have used it since list winter, when I 

 titst heard of it. It this make as firm good butler as ever came 

 from any chum, and very much better than comes from some 

 churns. It is a labor-saving process. It may possibly have been 

 known long ago. but that did us of to-day no good until some one 

 brought it to our notice. We obtained the process more out of 

 curiosity than because we had any faith in its doing any thing. 

 I now have faith, and lots of it. Mrs. Wm. Meyer. 



Tecumseh, Okla., Oct. 12. 



Well, my good friend, I am very glad indeed 

 to find that one woman, at least, is pleased with 

 her investment; but do you not think it would 

 have been more sensible, and much better all 

 around, to have this simple process (which you 

 admit is probably old) given on the pages of our 

 home journals, just as we have given it, instead 

 of asking each person to pay three or five dollars 

 for the great secret as you have doubtless done.? 



NAVIGATING THE AIR BY THE WRIGHT BROTH- 

 ERS AND OTHERS. 



The latest report we clip as below from the 

 Chicago Daily Neivs: 



WINS IN FIVE MINUTES A PBJZE THAT NATIVES HAD BEEN 

 CAREFULLY PREPARING TO CONTEST FOR. 



Le Mans, Nov. 14. — " I might as well have that 1000 francs 

 ($200), even if I don't exactly need it," remarked Wilbur Wright 

 yesterday afternoon after suddenly deciding to try for the prize 

 offered by the Aero Club of the Saithe department for an aero- 

 plane flying as high as 100 feet. In another half-hour he had 

 shot up into the air on his machine without using the starting ap 

 paratus. and soon he soared twice around the big Auvours field at 

 a height of fifty feet above the small captive balloons which 

 marked the 100-feet height.* 



It took Wright five minutes to win the prize, which several 

 French aeronauts have been carefully preparing to acquire for 

 several weeks past — not for the sum involved, but for what the 

 Aero Club calls " the peculiar distinction of not only flying but 

 flying at high altitudes." 



GIVES LESSONS IN FLYING. 



Wright is giving the last lessons in flying to a number of dif- 

 ferent persons, according to his contract. When these are con- 

 cluded he will go to America via Cherbourg, because in the 

 neighborhood of that seaport there still remains another prize to 

 take — that for the straight-distance flying. 



Yesterday's flight, mide without using the sort of catapult which 

 has caused so much gossip, has settled the question of the machine's 

 being handicapped for long flights. 



We gather from the above that our friend Wil- 

 bur has learned the trick of starting without his 

 "catapult" (the starting apparatus I described in 

 our last issue), and, in fact, I rather suspected 

 they would, after they became better acquainted 

 with the machine and its capabilities. The fol- 

 lowing clippings from Aeronautics for November 

 give us glimpses of what is going on in the aero- 

 nautic world: 



It has been figured that the total duration of Wilbur Wright's 

 72 flights in France, up to Oct. 15, inclusive, amounted to 13 

 hours 49 minutes (will it take place " all in one sitting " next 

 year.'). Thirty persons have been carried, including three wo- 

 men and a boy, a total distance of 431 miles. 



On October 15, two flights were made of 1 minute 36 seconds, 



*In a second flight of 11 minutes' duration, Mr. Wright is said 

 to have risen to a height of 195 feet above ground. These are 

 the first official records for height that the American aviator has 

 made. — Scientific American. 



and 2 minutes 35 seconds, carrying MM. Mercanti and Gasnier. 

 Wright stopped his motor when at a height of 120 feet and made 

 a long smooth glide to earth. 



On the 28th Count de Lambert began his lessons as an appren- 

 tice-aviator. For his first lesson he had three flights of 12, 8, and 

 15 minutes. On the following day the master and pupil made 

 three more, 7 minutes and 5 seconds, 17 minutes and 34 seconds, 

 and 19 minutes and 25 seconds. 



In a recent interview Wilbur Wright stated that the success of 

 his machine was especially due to the high efficiency of its pro- 

 pellers, that light motors were not essential, and flight could as 

 well be attained with a steam-engine. H? claims 70 per cent 

 efficiency for his propellers. 



Mr. Franz Reichel, who made the first " hour flight" as pas- 

 senger on the Wright machine in France, has been the first one 

 to describe accurately the wonderful sensation of human flying. 

 He says: " If in an aeroplane going straight ahead is a delicious 

 sensation, turning is a veritable intoxication. It was during 

 these evolutions that I felt that the air was conquered, well con- 

 quered." 



It is said that fully one hundred Wright aeroplanes have been 

 ordered from the Societe Navale de Chantiers de France. They 

 will be fitted with BoUee engines and be sold at $5000 apiece. 

 Count de Lambert and Vicomte de La Brosse will receive the 

 first two. (This seems an " awful lie.") 



On the 28th Farman made another long flight and again anoth- 

 er of about a mile with M. Painlev6 aboard. Following these, 

 other alterations were made and for the first time in the histoiy 

 of aviation a flying-machine traveled from one town to another. 



NEW PRIZES — IN FRANCE. 



1000 francs by Aero Club de la Sartbe as a height prize, with 

 conditions making it possible for Wilbur Wright to compete (he 

 was excluded from the other prize for height for not starting by 

 nis own power only). Captive balloons must be flown over at a 

 height of 30 meters. 



First, it is an agreeable surprise, at least to my- 

 self, to know that thirty persons, including a wo- 

 man and a boy, were carried; and the second 

 item declares positively that the machine actual- 

 ly carried t-Tvo people besides Mr. Wright him- 

 self. If they would only tell us the total weight 

 of the three persons we could judge a little better 

 of the capacity of the machine for carrying bur- 

 dens. I am very glad indeed to know that 100 

 machines have already been ordered, -nd that the 

 others will be sold as low as $5000 apiece. That 

 is not any more than some of our automobiles 

 cost; but I do not exactly undei stand the footnote 

 by the editor of Aeronautics. Does the "awful 

 lie" refer to the 100 machines to be built, or to 

 the price, or to the fact that the Count de Lam- 

 bert and the Vicount de la Brosse will receive 

 the two first.?* 



Our last item tells us that Farman is also mak- 

 ing progress, and that he too is carrying a pas- 

 senger; and that he has succeeded, at least to a 

 small extent, in traveling from one town to 

 another. When actual flying-machines begin to 

 traverse the country by going from town to town 

 as automobiles do, then we shall see such a stir 

 throughout the whole wide world as has never 

 been seen before. 



My last clipping I have given to explain ivhy 

 it was that Wilbur Wright was induced to try 

 clnnbing up into the /3/V without the use of the cat- 

 apult. Oh! is it not glorious to be alive when 

 so much is going on in the way of invention and 

 progress — not only on the face of the earth, but 

 away up into the beautiful air above us, and, with 

 a prospect in future, of enjoying companionship 

 with the very clouds that float above us.? 



* since the above was in type I notice by one of the papers 

 that Wilbur Wright has at least once shut down the engine while 

 high up in the air, and made a gradual glide down to the ground 

 in perfect sarety. This refutes the statement made by several of 

 the papers that disaster would surely follow in case of the break- 

 ing-down of the engine. If I am correct, the engine might be 

 stopped for repairs while up in the air, and, if up high enough, 

 and the repairs did not take too long, the difliculty would be little 

 if any greater than in stopping the engine of an automobile for 

 repairs 



