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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15. 



board is merely a plain box. open on the front 

 side, having cleats nailed on the insides, at 

 proper distances apart, for shelves to rest on. 



The strips across the sides in the upper corner 

 of the cupboard (inside) are 3 in. wide (Figs. 3, 3). 

 These strips are nailed solidly to the sides of 

 the cupboard, and bolU'd to the top of it; two 

 iV bolts, 4 inches long, are used in each strip. 

 This makes a solid joint to stand the jar of 

 going down suddenly. The end of the board at 

 the top of the cupboard projects % inch at each 

 end (Fig 3), and I4 in.oti each side, and the floor- 

 cut out is replaced, as liiiisliid, on the tup of 

 the cupboard. 



When th(i elevator is down, the floor hardly 

 shows any division, having bi en cut with a fine 

 saw. A ring and staple through the center, at 

 top. serve to pull the cnphoiird up with. Tlie 

 projecting edges at the top of the cupboard 



should be beveled at the lower edges, so as not 

 to strike the floor. The frame or guide (shown 

 in No. 1) in the cellar is made by taking 8 strips 

 of board, 4 of them :i inches wide, and 4 of them 

 3 inches wide. The wide strips are nailed to 

 the edges of the niirrow ones, making the V- 

 shaped or three-cornered trough, the lower end 

 of which is shown in No. 3. No. 2 shows the 

 bottom of this frame, which is to keep the 

 cupboard from swinging out at the bottom. A 

 board, the size of the hole in which the cup- 

 board is to slide, should be fastened between 

 the guides at the bottom, and should be 3 inches 

 farther from the floor above than the length of 

 cupboard. This is to make sure that the cup- 

 l)Oii.id- weight rests on the studding which has 

 been spiked to joists above. The frame, when 

 done, should lack 2 feet of reaching the cellar 



bottom, to kpep rodents out; or a screen door 

 may be hung on a frame. 



No. 1 shows the cupboard below the floor. 

 My cupboard is 2:{%xl3^.2 inches, and 7 feet 

 long, being smaller by 1^ inch one way and J^ 

 the other than the hole it slides in. You see I 

 have large hay-fork pulleys, and use only one 

 on each side. But unless the diam(^ter of the 

 pulley is a little more than ji the diameter of 

 the weights, you must have two on each side 

 to prevent the weights from rubbing the ropes 

 or side of the cupboard. My weights are old 

 pails of gravel. They mus^ weigh alike or the 

 cupboard will not run true; and they must be 

 heavy enough to balance the cupboard and its 

 contents. My elevator is in my pantry; but 

 one may be in tlm kitchen or dining-room. The 

 wonii n-lolks wonder how they kept house 

 without one, espei-iaily in hot weather. It 

 saves much running duvn cellar. 



Fairview, Pa. 



[We have a dumb-waiter in our house, and 

 during the summer our women-folks tind it a 

 great convenience. Ours is made on much the 

 same principle, only we use dumb-waiter pul- 

 leys such as can bought at the hardware stores. 

 If the waiter is not too heavy, window-pulleys 

 such as are used for supporting windows may 

 be used. — Ed.] 



DOCTORING WITHOUT MEDICI17E. 



A PLEA FOK MILK. COMING FKOM AWAY UP"F IN 

 OKLAHOMA. 



By an Old Suhscriher. 



Dear Friend Root: — I have read Gleanings 

 since your first number was sent to the public. 

 I have been greatly interested and benefited by 

 reading what you have written during these 

 many years that have gone with all else in the 

 past; but in your issue for June 1 you let pure 

 sweet milk fare so badly that I can not longer 

 remain silent. I reply, however, in a proper 

 spirit, and harm can not obtain. You are gen- 

 erally right; but for once you are wrong. Milk 

 is nature's first food for man, and no physiologist 

 has yet discovered a place in normal man's jour- 

 ney through life at or beyond which milk loses 

 its value in man's diet. Moreover, it is equally 

 true that we know of no proper substitute for 

 milk. Milk contains all the elements necessary 

 for the development of the youth; and if the 

 adult man is not possessed of a depraved appe- 

 tite, milk will continue to supply every nook 

 and cranny in his body with material for the 

 reparation of the wastes going on. In many in- 

 stances human life is sustained indefinitely by 

 the use of milk. If an adult has worshiped at 

 the shrine (f modern civilization (I siiuuld have 

 said modern dissipation) until nature has been 

 forgotten by some of the organs in his being he 

 will not find so much satisfaction from the con- 

 tinued use of milk in every instance. The hu- 

 man body has been analyzed, and the many 

 simple elements contributing to its normal con- 



