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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



TEHY PINE SHIPPING CASES. 



At the Detroit Exposition, Mr. Jiio. G. 

 Kundinger showed a dovetailed hive, ship- 

 ping cases, etc. The shipping case was of 

 as fine white basswood as we have ever seen. 

 We supposed, of course, it was selected for 

 the occasion, but he informed us that it was 

 only a fair sample. Such being the case, we 

 bespeak a good sale — if anybody has any 

 honey to market. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Mich. Centkal bee keepers will hold 

 their semi-annual meeting October 15th in 

 the Pioneer room of the Capitol at Lansing. 



The Mich. State Bee Keepers will hold 

 their annual meeting Jan. 1st, 1891, in De- 

 troit. Place of meeting, in the city, yet to 

 be decided. 



The International American Bee Asso- 

 ciation will meet in Keokuk, Iowa, October 

 29, 30, 81. For further particulars address 

 the secretary, C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, 111. 



THE BABNES improved SAW. 



A few years ago a friend of ours bought a 

 Barnes foot power saw. Last summer we 

 bought one of their latest improved ma- 

 chines. What a contrast ! In the old ma- 

 chine the driving belt was simply a round 

 cord like a sewing machine belt ; the balance 

 wheel was not heavier than the balance 

 wheel of some sewing machines ; the saw 

 arbor was very light ; a leather strap from 

 the treadle wound up and then unwound 

 from the main shaft ; the treadle was simply 

 a pedal that was brought up, after being 

 pi-essed down, by a ivooden spring at the 

 back of the machine ; the whole machine 

 seemed light — too much like a toy— and we 

 decidedly preferred our more cumbrous, but 

 more effective, home-made machine. The 

 new machine is very solidly built, so heavy 

 that it makes two men "grunt" to lift it: 

 the treadle bar goes clear across the front 

 of the machine, and three arms extend back 

 from it to a large, square, iron shaft at the 

 back ; the treadle is brought up by a coiled 

 iron spring the tension of which can be 

 regulated ; a jointed chain from the treadle 

 extends over a toothed wheel upon the main 

 shaft and transfers the motion from the 

 treadle to the shaft ; the balance wheel is of 

 good size and heavy ; the belt is two inches 

 wide and all slipping is prevented by small 

 spurs upott the saw . pulley entering holes 



punched in the center of the belt. This 

 allows the use of a very small pulley. The 

 table is raised by two cams attached to a 

 rod, and can be instantly fastened at any 

 point. There is also a crank by means of 

 which a second person may help when the 

 sawing is heavy. 



The manufacturers pay us nothing for 

 writing all this, in fact, don't know we are 

 writing it. We do it because we honestly 

 believe that the machine deserves all the 

 praise here given it, and more, too. 



FIXED FRAMES EASILY HANDLED. — DIFFERENT 

 EXPERIENCES. 



Ernest Root has been making a trip, on 

 his bicycle, among the veteran bee keepers 

 of New York. 'Twas a good scheme, and he 

 writes well concerning it. Among other 

 things, he was not a little astonished to see how 

 extensively frames with fixed distances were 

 used, and the ease with which they were 

 handled — actually more rapidly than those of 

 the hanging style. We presume that our 

 friend Root has had frames of the Quinby 

 style in his yard, and has tried handling 

 them — so he has of the Heddon style — but of 

 what value is such experience compared with 

 that of the man who handles thousands of 

 them every season ? After seeing an exper- 

 ienced man handling Quinby frames with 

 such ease, Ernest came home full of enthu- 

 siasm for frames with fixed distances. In 

 migratory bee keeping they are indispensi- 

 ble ; we need them in the out apiary busi- 

 ness ; they are largely instrumental in pre- 

 venting the building of brace combs, anc^-;— 

 why not use them ? 



Now will Bro. Root bear with us if we i 

 to a matter that, perhaps, has only a rem\ 

 bearing upon the sul)ject in hand. Years 

 ago, we, together with Mr. Heddon, tried to 

 show him the value of the eight-frame hive, 

 the square joint, the honey board, the flat 

 cover, etc. We had tried these things and 

 knew their value. Mr. Root had not, yet he 

 was "chuck full" of arguments against 

 them. Since then he has adopted these 

 features and found them good. In the 

 spring of 1888, we tried, in the Review, to 

 show him that the Heddon frames could be 

 handled as easily and rapidly as the swinging 

 style, and with less danger of killing bees. 

 But he had a Heddon hive or two, and we 

 couldn't convince him. Now Bro. Root, as 

 Ernest has visited the users of the Quinby 

 frame, and been convinced of the ease with 



