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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



red to Farmer''s Bulletin No. 277, which can 

 be obtained for ten cents by addressing the 

 Superintendent of Documents at the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 

 This also explains fully the principle on which 

 the gasoline-engine works, and gives quite a 

 discussion on the relative merits of steam 

 and gasoline engines for use on the farm. 

 It is our opinion that internal-combustion 



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Fig. 2.— This shows the levers in the same positions 

 as in Fitf. 1, but the engine is turned around, thus 

 taking up more floor-space. 



engines using gasoline or alcohol as a fuel 

 are becoming more popular than ever among 

 farmers. A few years ago a gasoline-engine 

 was considered a very unreliable source of 



power; but since the advent of the automo- 

 bile they have been improved vipon and made 

 so perfect that there is no reason why they 

 should not give good service every day in 

 the year. It used to be a 

 common occurrence to see a 

 man with a gasoline-engine 

 struggling hard and getting 

 himself out of breath trying 

 to make it go; but with the 

 machines put out by factories 

 at the present time, a failure 

 in starting the engine and 

 keeping it running is almost 

 unknown unless the operator 

 knows nothing at all about 

 the principle or pays no at- 

 tention to the very complete 



Fig. 3.— This arrangement gives economy of floor-space; but the positions of the operating-levers are not 

 quite so convenient. 



