1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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on top. The people I talked to assented to 

 the theory ; but the first time I came along 

 they were bearing down right on the top of 

 the tooth again, and cutting away the point, 

 wasting the saw, wasting their strength, and 

 not having a good cutting tooth when they 

 were done. Well, to day my heart has been 

 made happy by seeing a saw sharpened on a 

 new machine, without the aid of any file at 

 all, and the saw cuts just as nicely as the one 

 I worked with 23 years ago, sharpened on my 

 home-made wooden machine. Saws sharpen 

 ed by machinery have their teeth exactly 

 alike ; and if you once set the machine so it 

 makes one tooth of the proper shaj e and 

 pitch, all the other teeth will be just like it, 

 and you can sharpen a hundred or a thousand, 

 and have each and every one cut just as well 

 as the first one This new automatic machine 

 cost us about $75, and was made by the Covell 

 Mfg. Co., Chicago. I have always maintain- 

 ed, and still maintain, that, even if one insists 

 on filing saws by hand, he needs a machine to 

 do the gumming and truing- up. Just take a 

 look at a lot of saws that have been sharpened 

 with files a dozen times or more, and then 

 compare them with one that has been through 

 the machine. But even now I am afraid that, 

 in a few days, I shall hear somebody say the 

 nnchine is "no good." and hear that they 

 have gone back to bungling hand work. 



AUTOMATIC MACHINE FOR FILING SMALL 

 CIRCULAR SAWS. 



The same apparatus, with a little modifica- 

 tion, trues up and sharpens band-saws in the 

 same way ; and as it is a considerable task to 

 sharpen a long band-saw, such a machine is a 

 wonderful saver of hand work. We now have 

 two of these machines in operation. One saw- 

 filer can superintend both of them, and be do- 

 ing other work besides. The band-saw will, 

 in fact, take care of itself for almost an hour 

 at a time, and do nicer work than any man 



ever did by hand with the file — at least that is 

 my opinion. A one-horse-power electric mo- 

 tor operates both machines. 



Our Roll of Honor. 



Dear Brother Root: — \ notice, in looking over the 

 Honor Roll, that you give a place to those who have 

 taken Gleanings" since 1880 and thereabouts. When 

 the Honor Roll was first started, I did not consider 

 that those subsciibing for so short a time would be 

 counted among the veterans. But if they are, I feel 

 that I am entitled to a place, having been a subscriber 

 since IS"!). I might say that I have all the copies since 

 that date in my possession now. I have written you 

 from time to time telling you of the help Gleanings 

 has been to me. It would he hard to estimate how 

 much benefit I have derived from your advice and 

 counsel in the Home Papers. We had the pleasure of 

 a visit from you at our home a short time ago, and we 

 hope that you will come to Toronto soon again, when 

 we shall be much pleased to have you stay with us. 



I have been much interested in vour travrls, and in- 

 tend sending you a sketch of a trip we had to Muskoka 

 last summer. We know from what you have said in 

 your talks about health, soft water, etc , that Muskoka 

 would be just the place for you. We believe you 

 would enjoy it and that it would do you good. We 

 traveled about two hundred miles on our bicycles, and 

 about the same distance by canoe up the lakes and 

 rivers, camping out all the time. We had plenty of 

 fresh fish, backberries, raspberiies, huckleberries, and 

 the very best pure soft water. We were away a 

 month, and the total cost for three < f us did not ex- 

 ceed $50.00 Edwin Grainger. 



Toronto. March 13, 1899. 



To be sure, I should enjoy it, friend G. ; and 

 whenever you get ready for another trip of 

 that kind, just send me word and I will try 

 hard to be one of the crowd. Well do I re- 

 member my pleasant but altogether too brief 

 visit at your place. I was on the beefsteak 

 diet then ; but, may the Lord be praised, I 

 think I could eat berries and fruit now with 

 almost any of you. 



My dear old Friend: — Please have mv subscription 

 extended. That's because I began with Vol. I. No. 1 

 of Gleanings. I think it began not so very long aft- 

 er the first visit I made to vou. That was not long 

 after you had had a fire, in 1870, and had your jeweler 

 shop and dwelling all under one roof. Other com- 

 pany was there, somewhat crowding the sleeping fa- 

 cilities ; you and I slept together, and you kept me 

 awake d-tailing a plan that was in vour head for put- 

 ting a hive under each hard-maple tree, tapping the 

 tree, and having the sap run directly into the hive for 

 the benefit of the bees. You didn't manufacture smok- 

 ers then, and I showed you how to smoke bees with a 

 pan of hot co->ls. You liked the plan, and as soon as I 

 was out of sight you tried it and burned up a hive, or 

 tried to. I think I've slept with you a number of times 

 since, and was distinctly the gainer on at least two 

 separate occasions, when you absent-mindedly put 

 your nightcap in my overcoat pocket instead of your 

 own. I never lost any thing by sleeping with you I 

 always put my Waterbnxy under my pillow. Please 

 don't forget to have my subscription extended. 



Marengo, 111., March 23. C. C. Miller. 



I have been a continuous subscriber to Cleanings 

 for about 20 years. I have preserved all of the volumes, 

 but have not taken time to look up just what year my 

 time began. I became interested in bees about 1879. 

 My bees have wintered fairly well up to this time 

 on their summer '■tands. John S. Snearly. 



Williamsville, N. Y., March 20. 



I commenced taking Gleanings in the 70's, and 

 have continually perused its contents ever since with 

 interest, pleasure, and profit : and I know I am a bet- 

 ter Christian to-day, and love the Bible hetter for the 

 truths taught and practiced in Gleanings. Hoping 

 we shall meet in the citv of gold, I am your brother, 



DuQuoin, 111., March 9. F. H. Kennedy. 



