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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



,_ 'The Michigan Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold their next meeting in the 

 Supreme Court Room, Lansing, on Wednes- 

 day, March 14. An interesting programme 

 has been arranged and there will be an ex- 

 hibition of honey and implements for the 

 apiary. A cordial invitation is extended, 

 and the hotels have given reduced rates. 



It^" Many thanks to those who have 

 kindly volunteered to put up our colored 

 posters in their localities. We have sent a 

 few to those that we felt sure would' get 

 them put up, but had not sent for them, and 

 shall send more as circumstances will per- 

 mit. Friends getting them put up in public 

 places will much oblige the publisher. 



KINGS CUMB-FUUNDATIOX MACHINE. 



Comb Foundation Machines. 



In answer to several inquiries we will 

 here give cuts of the comb foundation ma- 

 chines gotten up by friends Root and King, 

 believing that the reader will obtain from 

 them a much more correct idea, than from 

 reading a description merely. Both ma- 

 chines are creditable to their inventors, as 

 very ingenious contrivances to make the 

 "foundation" of cells for the use of the bees. 



The Root machine is similar to the one 

 used by Mr. Perrine, of this city, who pur- 

 chased it of Mr. Root. The King machine 

 is similar to the Weiss machine, also used 

 by Mr. Perrine. So that these cuts give a 

 tolerably correct idea of all the machines 

 now in use. 



The rolls are made of type metal and 

 have the shape of the bottoms of the cells 

 cut in each, so that when a sheet of wax 

 passes between them, it receives indenta- 

 tions that form the " foundation " of cells, 

 afterward worked into comb by thebees. 



A close study of the cuts will give the 

 reader a tolerably correct idea of the man- 

 ner of working each machine. Both are ad- 

 vertised for sale in this issue, as well as the 

 artificial comb foundation itself. 



ROOT'S COMB-FOUNDATION MACHINE 



