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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 



month sooner" than jou can, and would much jjrefer re- 

 funding to all who Iiine ordered of us, to undertaking- ; 

 io do so, and lia\e so notiliedour customers. 1 will never < 

 aiiiin agree to send out queens, guaranteeing their safe ar- ! 

 rival, before the first of June. 1 



We arc in receipt of an imported queen from Dr. J. P. j 

 H. ihown, and are very much pleased with her. Her j 

 workers are luiilorml.v and prettily marked; though some- 

 what dark, they are not black, like Dadaiit's. Yours tridy, 

 W. J. Andrews, Columbia, Tenn. May -ind, '7(;. 



fi HAVE had experience enongh to know about 

 what we want for man, and one-hoise jiower. 1 

 ' first got a cheap one-horse power and run my saw 

 without using any balance. I soon found it a poor 

 thing, as it is impossible to keep the motion up. I 

 next bought the No. 2, '-V. M.'' gear of the Combined 

 Fower Co., because they claimed it had "leverage." 

 I was afraid it woidd prove a humbug, and so it did. 

 You can no more use a cog wheel as a lever, than 

 you can fiy. And this isn't all the ridiculous feature 

 about the ////«^ ; talk about one man running a saw 

 .'!0CO or 4000 revolutions jier minute! why, your 

 power is used up in running the gearing, and you have 

 none left for sawing. I took off three-fourths the gear- 

 ing and run the saw 700 or 800 revolutions, and found 

 1 could run more and much easier, Irom the fact that 

 it takes but one-fourth the power to run the &aw. I 

 liut a 27 lb. balance on my saw shaft, and find that two 

 balances are much better than one, especially if they 

 are both light ; the balance en my gearing weighs only 

 ;i5 lbs. It may be iiossiblc that one heavy balance 

 would do nearly as well as two lighter ones, but I 

 think it doubtful. 1 find 1 can saw fully twice as much 

 with a man at the crank, as I saw with the common 

 treadle. I suppose the heavy foot-power machines 

 have the advantage in the treadle as you can tread 

 three or four times lielore the shaft turns round; (here 

 is where the leverage comes in, and were it not for 

 that advantage, I think you could not get the motion 

 up at all. Cive us facts, n-c are willing to pay for ihcm. 

 K. S. Bkcktkll, New KulValo, JMich. 



We tliiuk friend B., you arc a little rough ou 

 the "V- M." After the saw is tread up to the i 

 enormous velocity of which it is capable, it I 

 will saw through quite au amount of heavy | 

 work, which it could not well do were it not j 

 for the power that is accumulated, or stored 

 lip as it were, in the balances. To Illustrate : ' 

 it' you were to attempt to push a nail into a j 

 board with the face of a hammer, you would! 

 lind your strength wholly iuadequaie, but you 

 could perliaps easily sink it to the head by 

 raising it above your head, and acctimulating 

 power by the descending blow. The Y. M. en- 

 abled us iu the same way to mass the power 

 applied, so as to saw for a short time ou very 

 heavy work. AVe have sawed 2 inch pine, in 

 lengths for section boxes, without stoppiiig at 

 all, for sufficient power could be collected 

 while drawing the Vt'ork back, to send the 

 sav,' through, scarcely slacking the sjiced. It 

 requires au amount of practice to use the V. M. 

 to the best advantage, that is not needed for 

 The |;i.").00 machine, and as the latter is an)ple 

 for doing almost anything re<iuircd for bee- 

 hives, v.'fc give it the preference. Tiie balance 

 wheels on the saw mandrel, we lind a great 

 nuisance in cutting up stuff for hives. The 

 small machine when raised, as it always 



should be, so the saw just reaches through the 

 stuff, leaves the table top entirely clear, so 

 that we may cut a board of any width or length. 



A WORD AUOUT HAND I'OWEK SAWS. 



I bought the only one of the kind I ever saw, s-ix 

 weeks ago second-hand ; it was made near Grafton, 

 Ohio, and is a perfect success. It goes by crank power, 

 therefore re(iuires two men to work it, but one man 

 can run it to its full capacity then let go ot the crank 

 and run a J twelve foot pine board clear through be- 

 fore it stops, lean also saw 2!. in. black walnut, 

 much faster and easier than we can with hand saws. 

 With two men changing about every live minutes, it 

 can be run quite easily. My business is building and 

 stair building. I have made an arrangement by 

 which I saw all the dove-tailsof my stair balusters with 

 it and would not take what I gave for the machine for 

 that one i)urpose alone. The machine ]irobablyhas 

 cost about seventy dollars, I have also a boring attach- 

 ment to it. Should you ever come to this city 1 will be 

 pleased to show it to you, or any of the readers of 

 (Jleanings, at No. 95scranton Ave. Cleveland, Ohio. 

 A. A. Fkadknhurg 



FOR 



DEPARTMENT 

 BOX HIVE EEE- KEEPERS. 



ND why so many departments that are 

 i^£2Li often dropped in a sliort time ? some may 

 say. Well, you see Gi.ean'ikgs is somewhat 

 ou the Natural Selection, or Survival of the 

 Fittest plan, and we start a department to see 

 if it is going to be kept up, thinking we shall 

 perhaps hit a sympathetic cord in the hearts 

 of some of our readers after a while, and then 

 they will keep up the department themselves. 

 Now who knows but that this column may be 

 the shortest road to "how to realize the most 

 monej' etc.," — yon see w haven't lost sight of 

 the idea, even if our compositor did take the 

 motto away to make room for his new type. 

 Read this : 



EDITOR GLEANINGS :~You are correct, my sub- 

 scription expires with the present number. I have 

 found it a very good investment indeed, toward the 

 attainment of some knowledge of the theory, as well 

 as practical teachings of yourself and your many cor- 

 respondents. I cm indeed highly pleased, and have 

 been agreeably entertained ; but as 1 have neither the 

 kind of hive you describe, the extractoi', nor comb 

 foundations, be not surprised at my seeming want of 

 appreciation. 



My bees are mostlj' in box hives, with supers on top. 

 Came through the winter without the loss of a single 

 stock. I have a few stocks in movable frames: of 

 course the hive is a patent concern with moth trap, 

 which (humbug) catches more bees than moths. 



The small surplus frames placed in tlie top of tue 

 brood frames, no doubt have some advantage over 

 boxes placed on the outside, in a cool season, but the 

 inconvenience of having to draw tlie inside of the hive 

 out to get at them (and that in front of the hive too), 

 is certainly a serious oi).iection, when all are fastened 

 back wilh propolis. I have made a double set of these 

 frames for each hive. I should hav(! written to you 

 ere now, to know if I could find ;iny better use for 

 them than kindling wood 1 



Dear Gi.kanixgs, I am sorry that for the present at 

 least, we must part company ; your monthly visits 

 have been very punctual and very welcome, but you 

 are far in advance of mj- ken. I have carel'uih' filed 



