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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Harley-Davidson motor cycle, used for carrying a load. 



orders for such parts in a very leisurely 

 manner, while you are losing the use of 

 your car. None but an expert repair man 

 should attempt to replace and to adjust 

 such new parts. 



In the usual course of events, however, 

 the car is literally "torn to pieces" by 

 young "cubs" who hardly know a monkey- 

 wrench from a mouth organ. When the 

 lime for reassembly arrives, a more or less 

 skilled repair man tries to undo some of the 

 harm the " cub^ " have done. Such pro- 

 ceedings are not good for a car's health, to 

 say the least. A well-designed and properly 

 constructed friction transmission practical- 

 ly eliminates the troubles mentioned. It is 

 easier to learn to operate than sliding gears, 

 gives any number of speeds, is noiseless, 

 does not break down suddenly, and repairs 

 are inexpensive. The only joart subject to 

 much wear is the fiber facing on the cross- 

 shaft wheel. It simply ivcars out slowly, 

 giving ample notice, so that a new fiber 

 ring can be kept ready to replace the old 

 one when it becomes necessary. The ser- 

 vices of an expert mechanic are not requir- 

 ed, as almost any one can put in a new fiber 

 ring in two or three hours' time, and the 

 cost is about $8.00. One of my friends had 

 a fine 1910 Cadillac. Some of his transmis- 

 sion gears stripped off, and the repairs cost 

 him $40.00. The transmission of my old 

 Reo "busted," and the cost to me was about 

 $60.00. Compare these expensive and 

 troublesome repairs with the cost of a new 

 fiber for a friction transmission. It may 

 make you decide, as I have, that my new 

 car must have a friction drive. 



The leading makes of friction-driven 

 phasure cars are the Cartercar and the 

 Lambert. Others are the Lincoln, Sears, 



Petrel, Metz, Dispatch, Kearns, Duryea, 

 and Rogers. So far as I can determine, the 

 Lincoln and Sears are exactly the same car 

 under different names at different prices. 

 Nashville, Tenn. 



MOTOR CYCLE USED GOING TO OUT-APIARIES 



BY W. F. DUNLAP 



I am sending you a picture of a gentle- 

 man who, because of eye trouble, is unfit for 

 many kinds of work. He has entered en- 

 thusiastically, and I might add successful- 

 ly, into beekeeping. He is shown in the 

 picture about to start for one of his outlying 

 apiaries, on his motor cycle. 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



TROUBLE WITH THE SEARS 



BY WM. MUTH-BASMUSSEN 



During the l<s months that I have had my 

 Sears machine it has been outof ordernear- 

 jy all the time, and I have been practically a 

 prisoner at home. This car may do very 

 well on city streets and on good hard roads; 

 but with narrow solid tires it is entirely un- 

 suited to sandy and soft country roads. I 

 finally had to get a set of new wheels with 

 pneumatic tires, for which Sears, Roebuck 

 tV: Co. charged me ?170.00 — just double the 

 difference between the price of a car with 

 solid and one with pneumatic tires, although 

 I labored with them about the unreasonable- 

 ness of this exorbitant price. 



As soon as the new wheels arrived, two of 

 the tires were leaking. When I reported 

 this, Sears, Roebuck tS: Co. sent me two new 



