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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



June 



spring to break, for the spring comes on 

 such a length of wire that it is not severe at 

 any point. 



Bend your springs so that the boards will 

 come lip promptly as far as the leather will 

 allow. To make a neat job. you should put 

 on the leatliei' with wire nails. aV)Out five- 

 eighths in length. Put the l)oards closely to- 

 gether at the eu:] where the hinge is, and "tack 

 one end of your long piece of leather. The 

 l)oards should be separated at the other ends, 

 as far as the width of the leather will allow. 

 Draw the leather close up to the wood, and 

 tack at intervals. Now tack the i-inch strip 

 on for a binding. If you wish a ])retty job, 

 use red morocco for this last. When" your 

 tacks are all in (I would drive them a little 

 more tlian half an inch ai)art) you are ready 

 to pai-e oft' the surplus leather with a very 

 sliai}) knife. Finish off every thing neatly 

 with sandi)ai)er. and your bellows is done. 

 The leather has cost uslO cts., the two Itoards 

 possibly o cts., and the si)ring 5 cts. more. 

 Allowing o cts. for your time in tacking on 

 the leather and saiidpapering, you have a 

 good bellows for 25 cts. For this price it 

 should be as good as any thing in the market. 



IIOAV TO MAKE THE TIN CASE FOR FUEL. 



For these cases we want a nice quality of 

 IX tin, 20 in. square. Now draw a circl'e as 

 large as can be drawn on this sheet. We 

 make them 19i in diameter. In the center 

 of this circle, or disc, with a hollow punch 

 cut out a piece 3 inches in diameter. Now 

 cut the circle into four equal pieces, and you 

 have enough for four cases for fuel. This 

 piece or blank is shown in fig. 1 lielow: 



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THE TINAVORK USED FOR COLD - BLAST 

 SMOKER. 



Before folding those blanks up into cone- 

 shaped cups, you will have to snip oft the cor- 

 ners, which our engravers failed to do. The 

 blanks should be put through the rollers so 

 as to fold them first on one side and then on 

 the other, that tliey may roll up smoothly and 

 evenly when formed and locked together 

 finally. 



Fig. 2 shows the blank of which the curved 

 spout is made. It is formed up, lapped at 

 the joint, and soldered, and tlie tube then 

 bent in a curve while a tapering rod of lead 

 is inside of it. 



The blast-tvibe is made of tin, tapering like 

 the spout of an oil-can. It is made jiist as 

 large, at the large end, as it can be. and be 

 driven into the board. The inside is then 

 Inirnished down hard and close to the wood, 

 making it firm and air-tight, and then secur- 

 ed by a couy)le of heavy annealed tacks, driv- 

 en through the tin and wood, and clinched. 



Fig. Sis the l)ottom. with door B attached 



by a rivet C. The door is made by cutting 

 in two a circular piece like the bottom, each 

 piece making two doors. The piece A is 

 formed of a strip Uxr)!, locked into the 

 semi-circular piece on one edge, and folded 

 on the other edge. The end that extends be- 

 >()nd is turned up so as to catch on the bottom 

 of the fii-e-case, to hold the door securely. 



Fig. 5 is the piece of tin that comes out of 

 the door B. It is punched full of | holes. 

 The edges are then turned over to make it 

 strong, and it is siiapiied into the bead, seen 

 in the fuel-case just back of where the bent 

 air-tul)e entei-s, forming tlie grate to hold 

 the fuel. 



The fuel-case is fastened to the top of the 

 bellows l)y means of four screws, No. 8, H 

 inches in'length. To hold the case up the 

 right height from the wood, four tin tubes 

 ai'e put over the screws before they are tiu'ned 

 down into the wood. These 'tubes are 

 made of pieces of tin, 1 inch square. They 

 are rolled up with a little steel rod having a 

 crank on the end. A groove in this steel rod 

 catches the end of the tin, which is inserted 

 through an opening in a cylinder in which 

 the rod revolves, thus making it possible to 

 roll the tubes quite rapidly. 



Almost any tinsmith lias the tools necessa- 

 ry for making the tinwork, and if you show 

 him this description he will readily under- 

 stand it. In our business we have a pair of 

 squaring shears that cut the large circles by 

 a single turn of a crank, and they are cut in 

 quarters by a pair of tinner's scpiaring shears. 

 The holes for the »k)or are also cut by a foot- 

 ])Ower press, and the lu)les in the blank sheet 

 for the screws and blast-tube are also cut by 

 one operation by the foot-power press. 



THE CYPRUS APIARY. 



SOMETHING RIGHT FROM OUR OLD FRIEND BENTON 

 HIMSELF ON THE ISLE OF CYPRUS. 



z FEW words from the native land of the Cyp- 

 rian bee may not prove unwelcome to many 

 of my countrymen. As perhaps may be 

 known to some, it was quite impossible last 

 year, owing to cholera in the East, and con- 

 sequent quarantine i-egulations, which caused the 

 greatest irregularity in steamers plying in these 

 waters, to obtain any considerable number of queens 

 direct from Cyprus. I did get a few; but owing to 

 delays on the way, the shipments were not very suc- 

 cessful, and I was obliged to disappoint many Euro- 

 pean customers who didn't seem to understand why 

 cholera should affect the exportation of bees. After 

 deliberating the matter sometime, I concluded that, 

 as it seemed so uncertain whether I could get a 

 supply of queens from Cyprus during the season of 

 1884 or not, without personally securing them, and 

 as it seemed to me desirable that we should continue 

 the importation of these valuable bees, I would 

 venture upon another journey to the East, in the 

 hope of bringing about these objects. I will not 

 deny, that I hoped the journey might be made re- 

 munerative also, which hope I regard as a ])erfectly 

 legitimate and proper one, and I desire most em- 

 ))hatically to say that this hope of financial gain was 

 by no means the sole thing which actuated me, the 

 unjust accusation of at least one New-York bee- 

 keeper to the contrary notwithstanding. I can truth- 



