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Publish t Weekly at 118 Michigan St. 



George W. York, Editor. 



ifl.OO a Year — Sample Copy Free. 



38th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., MARCH 10, 1898. 



No. 10. 



"Golden's" Disk WhirHag-Belt Section- 

 Cleaner. 



BY MISS FLORA FITCH. 



Deak Mr. York : — We get letters every now and then 

 wanting to know who this "iriody"is. My name is Flora 

 Fitch. Having always lived next door to Mr. Golden, since a 

 mere child, he has always playfully called me bis girl, and I 

 have more or less assisted him with his bees, and in the gal- 

 lery. Through Mr. Golden's kindness I have learned some- 

 thing of the nature and habits of the little honey-bee, as well 

 as some of the mysteries of photography. My father having 

 gone to his long home, my mother, little sister, and myself, 

 make up our family. 



And now, Mr. York, as I promist to write for you a de- 

 scription of Mr. Golden's disk whirling-belt section-cleaner, 

 I will now proceed : 



The pictures will perhaps tell more than I can explain on 

 paper. The gearing is metal, and revolves on an upright 

 shaft, upon which a disk is set, or taken oflf, having a mor- 

 tise on the under side. This disk consists first of a wooden 

 wheel % inch thick by 14 inches in diameter. A hoop IX 

 inches wide is tackt around the outside rim, and extends one 

 inch over the disk-board. A piece of good drilling or can- 

 vas is wet with starch-water, then ironed smooth. Take a 

 compass and a card-board, make a circle ?4 inch less than the 

 disc wheel, then make a circle o}4 inches smaller than the 

 previous circle ; cut out, and you have a pattern. Take two 

 or three sheets of wadding and fold as often as the pattern 

 will cover. Lay on the pattern, and with a sharp penknife 

 cut around outside and inside the circle. Lay the batten on 

 the canvas, and over the batten put a piece of muslin, then 

 baste around the inner circle, after cutting the muslin like X. 



Then baste around the out circle and stitch with sewing 

 machine. Trim, dampen, and run a hot smoothing-iron over, 

 cut the pattern in four pieces, and cutout four pieces of No. 

 2}4 or 3 sand-paper, glue one at a time, and lay on the cush- 

 ion belt. Lay on a wood separator. Then with a moder- 

 ately hot Iron, press for two or three minutes, and so on until 

 finisht. 



Having another hoop, something like a bucket-hoop, 

 spread the canvas over the disk-board, put over the small 

 hoop, pressing it down over the disk-hoop, pulling the edge of 

 the canvas and stretching it tight like a drumhead. Trim, 

 and you have without doubt one of the safest and most com- 

 mon-sense belt section-cleaners yet presented for Inspection 

 by bee-keepers. 



In testing this machine, we have taken sections having 

 had the combs cut out, and placed over this belt, apd quickly 

 made bright and clean, and not breaking a joint. We have 

 taken sections of partly-drawn comb from right out-of-doors 

 in the cold and cleaned them bright, and not a crackt comb 

 could be observed. 



You see this belt " gives " under the least pressure, and 



there cannot be the least jar, no difference at what speed you 

 run the belt, and it is just the same with the other belt ma- 

 chine. Besides, one can work much the speedier, at least that 

 is our experience. 



We send you two views, one showing a plain view of the 

 cleaner, and one showing how the arm may rest while holding 

 a section, as the arm becomes pretty tired when working all 

 day. Place the machine near a table, and with a stool high 

 enough to give nearly a standing position is best. I find It 

 much the easiest to take a section in the right hand, and as I 

 place my wrist on the rest (which turns either way on its up- 

 right), and as I bring the section in contact with the whirling 

 sand-belt, I take hold with the left hand, thus the section is 



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guided backward and forward, and turned around, until the 

 four sides are cleaned, and then the edges. 



But, dear me, Mr. York, don't hold the section on the 

 sand-belt very long, for if you do you will have a lump of 

 honey all in your " two little hands." 



So now, Mr. York, when you commence to clean section 

 honey, " do be careful." 



Mr. Root said in Gleanings that he had a disk machine in 

 his mind's-eye. (We don't know whether he will have the 

 whirling-belt or solid disk). If a solid, or even a raised, sur- 



