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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



The Latest Arrival in our Museum 

 is the Hubbard Section-Press, for rapidly 

 putting one-piece sections together. Tlie 

 engraving gives a good idea of it. It 

 does its work very satifactorily. It was 

 invented by Mr. G. K. Hubbard, of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., over a year ago, and is 

 capable of putting together a thousand 

 sections in an hour. The work is not 



THE HUBBARD SECTION-PEESS. 



only done rapidly, but firmly and ac- 

 curately. The method of doing so is 

 thus described by Mr. Hubbard : 



To put a section together, bend it 

 around until the dovetailing is nearly 

 together, as shown in the engraving, at 

 the same time placing it in the machine ; 

 and when so placed that the dovetailed 

 ends will correspond, a slight push for- 

 ward will effectually do the work. The 

 two movable arms work as a toggle- 

 joint, giving great pressure at the dove- 

 tailed corner. 



It is nicely made and finished, and a 

 point in its favor is that both hands can 



be used to handle the sections, and at 

 the same time, also to work the press. 

 When it came, one of our employes, who 

 had a lot of sections to put together, put 

 it into use, and in five minutes was able 

 to handle it very rapidly ; the sections 

 coming out true and square every time. 



The Programme of the Sanilac, Tus- 

 cola and Huron Counties (Mich.) Bee- 

 Keepers' Association is on our desk. The 

 meeting will be held at the Court Room, 

 Caro, on March 11 and 12, 1891, at 

 1:30 p.m. Essays are announced, as 

 follows: 



Transferring Bees — J. S. Kitchen. 



Comb Foundation, and its Use — N. Van 

 Patten. 



Spring Dwindling — Informal discus- 

 sion. 



Varieties of Bees — W. Z. Hutchinson. 



Production of Comb-Honey — Jno.Deitz. 



Is Bee-Keeping Profitable to Farmers — 

 Discussion led by E. A. Palmer. 



Programmes can be obtained of the 

 Secretary, J. G. Kundinger, Kilmanagh, 

 Mich. 



Missouri Statistics. — The Secretary 

 of the Missouri State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation furnishes the following statistics 

 for 1890 : 



Number of bee-keepers reporting, 142. 

 Number of colonies— Spring, 5,560; 

 Fall, 6,610. Pounds of honey — comb, 

 77,903 ; extracted, 88,202. Pounds of 

 beeswax, 979. Twenty bee-keepers, 

 with 450 colonies, make no report on 

 honey. Largest number of colonies re- 

 ported by one person : Spring, 550 ; 

 Fall, 900. Smallest number : Spring, 

 3 ; Fall, 4. Average number of pounds 

 of honey per colony reported, 29.85. 

 Season generally, very poor for honey. 

 Apiarists who have their bees in modern 

 frame hives, report them in fair condi- 

 tion. Many of the bees in old box-hives 

 will die before Spring. 



J. W. Rouse, Sec. 



Mexico, Mo., Feb. 9, 1891. 



Welcom.e. — Please permit me to ex- 

 tend my endorsement of the "Illustrated 

 Home Journal," and may prosperity 

 crown your efforts. It is a welcome peri- 

 odical in my household, and its contents 

 are devoured with much pleasure. 



Chicago, Ills. M. H. Mandelbaum. 



