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The ideas and systems here described I believe to be along^ the 

 right line. \Mth that idea in mind and the experience I have had 

 along these lines I believe I will l^e al)le to perfect an outfit which 

 will be in advance of anything" yet devised. 



I am now at work on an outfit which will include some new 

 features, but the success or failure of this will not be known until 

 another season. I wish to give due credit to my bee-keeper friends, 

 ]\lr. Robert Cirong and Mr. \'. \*. Dexter, for what they have done 

 along these same lines. If I succeed in making a more perfect out- 

 fit a great deal of my success will be due to their ideas and sug- 

 gestions. 



Too much praise cannot be given the steam-heated uncapping 

 knife. It is in my opinion the most practical tool for the purpose 

 ever invented. Three years" use has proven to me that all the ob- 

 jections I ever heard or read of it are groundless. The only possible 

 objection I can find is the condensation of steam letting the water 

 run into the cappings, but that is not so objectionable as the old sys- 

 tem of knives immersed in hot water, because the water condensed 

 from steam is pure and clean. 



A Novel Foundation Fastener. 



A MACHINE THAT CUTS ITS OWN FOUNDATION AS WELL AS FASTENS 

 IT IN THE SECTION. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION 

 -^. OF THE JENKS FASTENER. 



By WESLEY FOSTER, Boulder, Colo. 



'^^^ HE old Parker foundation fasteners have about all vanished 

 \^ from use except by the smaller bee-keepers. The hot plate 

 machines have taken their places. Some of us have believed 

 that the old pressure method of fastening foundation was obsolete, 

 but here is a simple little machine costing but a few dollars that has 

 any and all machines beaten for speed. ^Ir. E. J. W'allinger's help- 

 ers at Las Animas put up five hundred sections an hour, using a 

 top and bottom starter. 



This little machine cuts its own foundation, or rather it bites 

 ofif as narrow or wide a strip as you wish, and the same big tooth 

 or "cutter bar" as Mr. Jenkins calls it, bites the wax down into the 

 fibre of the section. 



Mr. D. S. Jenkins, of Las Animas, Colorado, is the inventor of 

 this little machine, as well as many other little ingenious bee-keeping 

 devices. 



Needless to say that this "Jenks" foundation machine has to 

 be worked in a warm room at a temperature of about 90 degrees. 

 Salt water is recommended to wet the cutter bar should the wax get 



