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for telephones, door-bells, or for furnishing a s;)ark for a gasoline- 

 engine. JJe sure to g\t a good batter}-. If you can get only the cheapest 

 kind, better get twu cells and connect them, as the connections upon 

 the scale-beam are not as close as are usually made upon a door-bell, 

 and it requires a good strong current to overcome these imperfect con- 

 nections and ring the bell. It won't answer to depend upon a bell that 

 does not aiicays ring — better not have any bell at all. As soon as the 

 requisite amount of honey has run in, the beam will rise and touch the 

 end of the wire abii\e it, thus completing the circuit and ringing the 

 be'l. The scales ma_\' be set a pound or two short, and then set at the 

 correct \\eight after the alarm has been given, and the filling completed. 



A Glimpse of a Montana Apiary. 



