Publisht Weekly at 118 Michigan St. 



George W. York, Editor. 



ifl.OO a Year— Sample Copy Free. 



38th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 20, 1898. 



No. 3. 



The " Golden " Sectioa-Houey Cleaner. 



BY .J. A. GOLDEN. 



I herewith present a picture of the greatest labor-saving 

 piece of machinery for bee-keepers that has ever been shown 

 to the fraternity. Every man, woman and child that knows 

 anything about preparing section honey in first-class style for 

 the markets, knows that scraping sections is a tedious kind 

 of work, or at least that is my version of the matter; and 

 when I got ready to dress my crop of nice, white clover honey 

 of 1897, it really made me tired to think about it. I wasn't 

 able to hire, and of course I was feeling pretty badly about 

 having all that unpleasant work to do. When I retired I 

 couldn't sleep, and as I was tossing about, my good wife 

 wanted to know if I were sick, or whether I had the fidgets. 

 I said I had the fidgets, I guest, and the result of that wake- 

 ful night brought to light a section-cleaner — just what you see 

 in the picture. 



Having an old sewing-machine table, I nailed some boards 

 together and cut out a wheel, which is 86 inches in circum- 

 ference, and has a 4-inch face. I attacht it on the old table, 

 covered the face of this wheel with medium-fine sand-paper, 

 by gluing It on, and arranging a cover so that the face of the 

 wheel protruded from 1/16 to % inch, as shown by the pict- 

 ure, where Flora is in the act of passing a section over the 

 wheel. (Just as I was ready to take the view. Flora turned 

 her head and said, "Tell Mr. York that I am just pretending 

 to clean this section " — when I toucht the button and caught 

 her and her smile.) 



It will be observed that there is plenty of room for a full 

 super of sections to be placed on the table at a time. 



Now as to how the machine works. Well, it was just fun 

 to clean sections with it, and so clean and bright that no one 

 could tell by looking at them afterwards, that they ever had 

 propolis on them, excepting at the scallops, which have to be 

 scraped out. But if the plain, no-bee-way section is used, a 

 knife will never be brought into use, as the machine does it 

 all, and very speedily. 



There isn't a bee-keeper in the world who likes nice, 

 clean section honey, that after seeing this machine and its 

 work, but would make or procure one. As I am generous to 

 bee-keepers, I here publicly present to them the right to use, 

 and also how to construct it. If there is any bee-keeper in 

 America, or any other country, that after dressing a half 

 dozen sections of honey isn't in love with the machine and its 

 work, let him "arise" like Mr. Doolittle's old man, and ex- 

 plain the objections. 



I had intended to send a picture and explanation of this 

 device last summer, but having quite a serious time in a finan- 

 cial way, caused by dishonest persons (but thanks to my bees, 

 every dollar has been canceled), the matter was forgotten un- 

 til I received the December Review, where I was surprised to 

 see that L. A. Aspinwall, of Michigan, had Invented nearly 

 the same arrangement. 



In conclusion let me add : Bread and table knives, pen- 



knives, scissors, or any small edge tools, can be quickly 

 ground on this wheel the same as an emery wheel, so our 

 women-folks will now have no excuse for not having sharp 

 knives, as any one who can run a sewing-machine can run this 

 section-cleaner. Morgan Co., Ohio, Jan. 5. 



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The Expenses of Bee-Culture— Does it Pay ? 



BY C. P. DADANT. 



Does bee-keeping pay ? This is a question which is often 

 on the lips of a beginner, and on which many an old bee- 

 keeper is ready to take the negative. But this is not to sur- 

 prise any one, for there are plenty of farmers who are ready to 



Tlic Ooldcn Section Cleaner. 



tell you wheat-growing doesn't pay, and who still continue to 

 grow wheat. 



I propose, in this article, to show that bee-culture, if 

 properly managed, does pay, even at the low prices of honey. 

 We are producers of extracted honey almost exclusively, and 

 as extracted honey is now as low in price as it ever was, if we 



