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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Frb. 1 



was a genius, handy with tools, and an 

 adept at contriving. When I looked through 

 his den in California I was surprised at 

 the number of little devices he had made. 



None of his inventions ever came much in- 

 to prominence, for the reason that he was 

 not a man to push any ideas of his own. 

 But I recall a glossometer that he made, 

 for he had been working on that problem 

 when a comparatively young man — the 

 problem of measuring bees' tongues — for he 

 early saw that some bees could reach fur- 

 ther than others; and the result was, he 

 made perhaps the most perfect measuring- 

 instrument that was ever devised. It was 



the jouncer was all that Mr. Martin had 

 claimed for it. 



NO honey; rambler in hard luck. 



described and illustrated in our issue for 

 May, 1882. Another invention of his was a 

 honey-strainer which had more than ordi- 

 nary merit; but owing to the difficulty of 

 making- it in a wholesale way, at a price 

 that would be in the reach of all bee-keep- 

 ers, we did not put it before the public. 

 A little later, as our friends will remember, 

 we illustrated and described his Rambler 

 jouncer — something which I consider useful 

 and really good. It is a machine for jar- 

 ring bees out of supers when bee-escapes are 

 not used. "We made a few of them, and 

 tested one of them ourselves, and^found that 



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Ski? ye lit-Hp lsTr.b'rins.6'nq yf" bii-dtm^l 



rambler's exultation; fortune favors 



HIM. 



Mr. Martin had told us in some of his 

 last letters that there were some inventions 

 which he wished to show to the public, and 

 these were to be illustrated and described 



THE rambler's scixtillatioxs; how hk 



G?INDS out HIS THOUGHTS. 



in a series of articles which he expected 1o 

 write when he had a litt'e moi e time. 

 But death caught him, and we shall never 

 know what these later ideas were. 



Perhaps no single writer who ever wrote 

 for Gleanings ever called forth more praise 



