R  U  R  A  L  N  E  W- Y  O  R  K  E  R 
Winter  Care  of  Bees  and  it- has  become  possible  for  tliem  to 
Will  you  tell  me  liow  to  feed  bees  in  SMt  pollen  from  some  of  the  earliest 
Winter?  I  bad  five  swarms  last  Winter  sources.  The  soft  maple  is  one  of  these, 
and  lost  two  of  them.  I  keep  them  in  As  warm  weather  approaches,  bees  in  a 
cellar.  JJo\y  shall  I  get.  them  started  t.e]|.u-  rend  to  become  uneasy,  and  they 
early  m  Spring  and  what  tune  put  them  ,  .  ,  ,  t  .... 
out  of  doors?  Do  you  think  it  is  better  *h,,uld  be  8lV‘‘u  some  attention  at  this 
to  keep  bees  in  cellar  or  outdoors  in  Win-  time  and  removed  from  the  cellar  in 
ter?  It  gets  2;>  or  MO  below  zero  here.  proper  season.  Bee-keepers  differ  as  to 
Corinth,  M.  Y.  tv.  it.  B.  the  comparative  merits  of  outdoor  and 
It  is  not  usually  advisable  to  feed  bees  cellar  wintering.  u.  B.  u. 
during  the  Winter  if  it  can  be  avoided.  If 
it  i*  seen  that  they  are  not  going  into 
Winter  quarters  with  sufficient  stores,  a 
matter  that  should  be  looked  after  before 
the  warm  Fall  weather  has  ceased,  they 
may  be  fed  up  by  giving  honey  or  sugar 
syrup.  Au  expert  may  be  successful  in 
opening  the  hive  during  the  Winter  and 
inserting  a  Comb  of  sealed  honey  if  he 
sees  that  stores  are  lacking  but  the  ama¬ 
teur.  at  least,  should  do  all  necessary 
feeding  before  cold  weather  has  set  in. 
Bees  may  be  set  out  of  doors  after  the 
weather  has  become  sufficiently  warm, 
the  exact  date  varying  with  the  season. 
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explaining  how  he  came  to  help  the 
earlier  applicant  to  prepare  au  applica¬ 
tion  for  the  invention  the  notary  claims 
to  have  made. 
d.  S.  ,T.’s  inquiry  demonstrates  the  very 
common  fear  of  inventors  that  some  will 
steal  their  invention,  whereas  they  usu¬ 
ally  suffer  far  more  from  their  own  over¬ 
estimates  of  its  value  than  from  anybody’s 
effort  to  get  it  away  from  them.  In  40 
years’  experience  iu  connection  with  in¬ 
ventions  and  patents  I  have  known  of  but 
one  case  of  anyone  helping  with  the  pre¬ 
paration  of  a  patent  application  trying  to 
steal  the  invention  or  set  up  another  in¬ 
ventor  and  in  that  case  the  whole  idea 
and  effort  was  to  sell  out  the  bogus  ap¬ 
plication  to  the  real  inventor  because 
he  thought  it  so  valuable.  The  scheme 
failed  and  the  schemer  got  a  penitentiary 
sentence.  If  inventors  were  one-half  as 
suspicious  of  those  who  seek  fees  of  them 
as  they  are  of  their  invention  being  sto¬ 
len  they  as  a  class  would  save  thousands 
every  year.  B.  N.  m. 
Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
The  Inventor’s  Troubles 
* 
In  regard  to  the  inquiry  of  J.  S.  .T., 
page  1051,  as  to  what  is  to  prevent  a 
notary  public  from  applying  for  a  pateut 
on  an  invention,  the  oath  to  an  applica¬ 
tion  fm*  which  lie  had  administered,  I 
would  add  that  if  applicant  files  the  ap¬ 
plication  as  soon  as  he  executes  it — as  he 
should — it  would  naturally  be  earlier  iu 
the  office  than  any  which  the  notary  could 
prepare  in  imitation  thereof,  which  would 
place  the  burden  of  proof  on  the  notary, 
who  would  tln  n  be  under  the  necessity  of 
20%  Extra  Value 
Due  to  Factory  Effict-  icy 
26  Extra  Features 
73  New  Conceptions 
MID -YEA  I 
MODE!, 
Due  to  John  W.  Bate,  the  Efficiency  Engineer 
We  intend  that  the  Mitchell  shall  offer  20 
per  cent  greater  value  than  a  like  price  can  buy 
elsewhere. 
We  save  at  least  that  in  this  factory.  It  was 
built  and  equipped  by  John  W.  Bate  to  minimize 
every  cost.  It  has  reduced  our  making  cost  one- 
half.  It  has  given  us  an  advantage  of  20  per  cent, 
we  believe,  under  any  rival  Six. 
That’s  forty  years  of  ordinary  service.  Seven  of 
them  have  averaged  about  175,000  miles  each. 
See  what  Mr.  Bate’s  genius  has  done  for  the 
Mitchell.  His  improvements  number  more  than 
700.  See  what  his  efficiency  gives  you  in  extra 
values.  A  half-hour  spent  with  a  Mitchell  dealer 
w’ill  win  you  to  Bate-built  cars. 
A  Many -Year  Decision 
The  decision  you  make  on  a  fine  car  now  will 
affect  yon  for  many  years.  If  you  get  the  right 
car,  you  may  never  need  to  buy  another.  If  you 
buy  the  wrong  car  you  are  likely  to  change 
before  long. 
Don’t  judge  by  demonstrations  only.  All  new 
cars  run  well.  Go  into  the  hidden  facts.  Get 
the  records  on  endurance.  Above  all  else,  judge 
by  the  man  who  builds  it. 
Go  deep  enough,  and  you  are  bound  to  choose 
the  Mitchell.  Many  noted  engineers  have  done 
so  in  buying  cars  for  themselves.  Your  Mitchell 
dealer  will  show  you  a  list  of  them. 
You  will  get  in  addition  the  most  complete 
car  that’s  built.  In  the  Mid-Year  Mitchell  you 
will  get  73  new  conceptions.  Our  designers  ex¬ 
amined  257  of  this  year’s 
before  completing 
90%  In  the  Chassis 
About  90  per  cent  of  this  extra  value  goes 
into  this  Bate-built  chassis.  It  goes  largely  into 
extra  strength.  There  are  440  parts  which  are 
drop-forged  or  steel-stamped  —  three  times  as 
strong  as  castings. 
The  major  strains  are  met  by  Chrome -Vana¬ 
dium  steel,  costing  up  to  15  cents  per  pound. 
To  every  part  is  given  at  least  50  per  cent  over¬ 
strength.  The  rear  springs  are  Bate  cantilevers, 
not  one  of  which  has  ever  broken. 
We  include  a  power  tire  pump,  an  extra-cost 
carburetor,  a  ball-bearing  steering  gear,  an  easy 
type  of  control. 
There  are  in  this  car  26  extra  features  which 
other  cars  omit.  And  those  extras  will  cost  us 
about  $2,000,000  on  this  sea¬ 
son’s  output  alone.  |  ~~~ 
F.  o.  b. 
Racine 
For  5 -Passenger  Touring  Car 
or  3-Passenger  Roadster 
7-Passenger  Touring  Body  S35  Extra 
Equipped  with  Demountable  Top  Only, $300  Extra 
High-speed  economical  Six— 48  horsepower — 
127-inch  wheelbase.  Complete  equipment,  in¬ 
cluding  26  extra  features. 
Aims  at  200,000 
Miles 
Mr.  Bate  has  aimed  at  a 
lifetime  car.  Two  of  his 
Mitchells  have  already  run 
over  200,000  miles  each. 
