Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 5.—Detail of driving mechanism;the idler released and the belt loose. engine will be. One-horse-powerengines of the type here shownconsume a quart of gasoline inabout ten hours of constant this work during the wholetime crowds the engine to its fullcapacity, about a quart and a halfwill be used. The lubricating oilis a small item, as there would beno necessity of using over onecents worth a day. The five drybatteries sent with the enginewould last a year at least, unlessthe engine were running con-stantly ten hours every day, whenthey would have to berep


Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 5.—Detail of driving mechanism;the idler released and the belt loose. engine will be. One-horse-powerengines of the type here shownconsume a quart of gasoline inabout ten hours of constant this work during the wholetime crowds the engine to its fullcapacity, about a quart and a halfwill be used. The lubricating oilis a small item, as there would beno necessity of using over onecents worth a day. The five drybatteries sent with the enginewould last a year at least, unlessthe engine were running con-stantly ten hours every day, whenthey would have to bereplaced, probably, infrom two to six the batteries sent withthe average farm engineshould last a year, for usually they would notbe required to give ser-vice every day. Newbatteries can be pur-chased for 25 cts. apiece,making $ as the to-tal battery expense for ayear. The spark - plugshould last severalyears; Ijut to be on thesafe side we will as-sume that a new onewould have to be pur-chased at the end ofth


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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectbees, bookyear1874