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way, and give the requisite strength. Thus, the tins would 

 not be liable to bend, as they would if run the shorter way of 

 the rack. The end-board, too (Fig. 51. A), would be a side- 

 board, and the strips (Fig. 51, <?, G), with the intervening 

 glass, would be at the ends. 



The Wheeler rack (Fig. 52) simply holds the sections, while 

 each section is g'lassed separately. 



Captain Hetherington sets a rack of sections above the 

 frames, and stands sections One above the other on the side for 

 aide storing. Mr. Doolittle makes a rack by placing ftames, 

 such as I have described — except they are only half as high, 

 and hold but two sections — side by side, where they are held 

 by tacking a stick on top across each end of the row. He 

 also places two tiers, two deep, at each end of the brood- 

 chamber, if he desires to give so much room. 



All apiarists who desire to work for comb honey which will 

 sell, will certainly use the sections, and either adjust them by 

 use of frames or crates. 



FOOT-POWER SAW. 



Every apiarist who keeps upwards of fifty colonies of bees, 

 and makes apiculture a specialty, will find a foot power saw 

 a very valuable apparatus. 



I have now used the admirable combined foot-power saw of 

 W. F. & John Barnes for a year, and find that it grows in 

 value each month. It permits rapid work, insures uniformity, 

 and enables the apiarist to give a finish to his work that would 

 rival that of the cabinet-maker. 



Those who procure such a machine should learn to file and 

 set the saws, and should never run the machine when not in 

 perfect order. 



