1914. 
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Beams held rigid—uniform cut. 
4 Automatic Shifting Hitch: 
Clevis always in position. Correct line 
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Pull of team raises bottoms. 
6 Adjustable Jointers: 
Clamped to beam. Every adjustment. 
7 Wide Tread: 
* No tipping on hillsides. 
8 Chilled, Full Steel and Combina¬ 
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Which means it saves one horse 
at the very least. It also saves 
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pulverizes the soil finer than any single harrow 
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finer than any two single harrows attached in 
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disks so that they cut just midway between where 
the fore disks cut. All soil is pulverized to the 
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Sprays 4 rows with 12 nozzles, 3 on each. 8 are low- 
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Pine ror Bat *“ an 
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Use in any 
' row crop. 
/Care of Old Orchards. 
What would you do to an old apple 
orchard? It was plowed last Fall and 
needs cutting back. J. L. 
Massachusetts. 
It is, of course, impossible for an out¬ 
sider to give definite rules about handling 
trees of this kind. A man ought to see 
the trees and study them before trying 
to tell just how they should be handled. 
As general advice we would begin May 
1 on this plowed sod, and harrow once 
a week, up to July. A spring-tooth 
would be a good tool for this purpose. 
Then sow six pecks of buckwheat, and 10 
to 15 pounds of Mammoth clover to each 
acre. If the trees are in bearing we 
would let the buckwheat mature, then 
cut it and let it remain on the ground. 
This would make a fine run for the hens. 
As for cutting these trees back, we 
would rather take three years to dishorn 
them, rather than to do it all at once. 
Good judgment is required in doing this 
work, and it will pay you to get some 
good fruit grower to come and cut back 
two or three trees for you, to give you 
an idea of how it should be done. We 
would not cut the top all hack this first 
year, unless there were good limbs ’and 
water-sprouts below the place where you 
cut. 
Moving Bees. 
I have two hives of bees, but the hives 
are so old they are no longer fit for use. 
I wish to take the bees from the old hives 
and put them into new ones. Is it possi¬ 
ble to do this? If so, how can it be 
done? v. K. 
Carpenter, Del. 
There are several methods of trans¬ 
ferring bees from one hive to another, of 
which that known as Heddon’s short 
method is probably as simple as any. 
The transferring should be done when 
some honey is coming in, and you should 
now wait until about fruit blooming time 
in the Spring. Then prepare your new 
hive with frames fitted with foundation 
or foundation starter and also make a 
box about eight inches deep, without cov 
er, and just large enough to fit the bot¬ 
tom of your old hives without slipping 
down over. Don veil and gloves and 
with lighted smoker in hand give the 
bees a few whiffs of smoke at the en 
trance of the old hive, then remove the 
hive from its stand, setting it back sev¬ 
eral feet. Place the new hive on the 
stand of the old. with entrance facing 
the same way. Then go to the old, turn 
it bottom side up and cover the bottom 
with the box that you have made, open 
side down. With two sticks drum upon 
the sides of the hive until most of the 
bees have gone above into the box. They 
may then be carried to the new hive on 
the old stand and dumped in front of 
the entrance. As they run in watch 
for the queen, for she must be with them 
if they are to stay. If you do not care 
to trust to finding her as she goes in 
with the bees, you can place a zinc en¬ 
trance guard in front of the opening be¬ 
fore dumping the bees and this will keep 
the queen outside until the rest have 
gone in, giving you a chance to see her. 
If need be, drum the old hive again un¬ 
til you have got most of the bees and the 
queen. Then set the old hive about two 
feet in the rear of the new, with the en¬ 
trance at right angles with that of the 
new. Leave it for three weeks, or until 
the brood in it has hatched, then turn 
it bottom side up and drum the bees out 
again, as before, and carry these to 
the new hive, dumping them in front of 
the entrance. Before doing this, smoke 
the bees in the new hive lightly so that 
they will admit the newcomers. A newly- 
liatched queen may go in with the second 
installment unless you again use your 
entrance guard, but unless you wish to 
preserve the old queen, it does not mat¬ 
ter which one survives the conflict which 
will ensue. 
I have transferred bees by removing 
the cover of the old hive and replacing 
it with my new one minus its bottom, 
and then drumming the bees directly up 
into the new hive and carrying it to the 
stand of the old hive. This is a shorter 
short method, but in order to use it the 
bottom of the new hive must fit the top 
of the old, or be made to. by use of 
strips of wood. M. R. n. 
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