The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . A SAAV-TA15LE YOK CUTTING OFF STUFF. We are now ready to consider what maybe done by the use of machinery, for en-abling even unskillful hands, or, i)erhaps,hands who have never been shown the im-portance of accuracy in mechanical work, &othat they may do work and be exact. When6 at the Exposition at Cincinnati
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . A SAAV-TA15LE YOK CUTTING OFF STUFF. We are now ready to consider what maybe done by the use of machinery, for en-abling even unskillful hands, or, i)erhaps,hands who have never been shown the im-portance of accuracy in mechanical work, &othat they may do work and be exact. When6 at the Exposition at Cincinnati, once, Isaw some beautiful iron tables having a pairof saws. These saws could be adjusted atany required distance from each other ; andto cut off the board it was pushed againstthe saws while moving on a carriage of , you will see, made it next to impossi-ble to have boards cut either too short or toolong; but the two cuts every time, made asmall waste of lumber. No. THE SAME WITH TOP RAISED. We here give you some engravings ofthe cut-off tables we use in our own dont know whether exactly the same de-vice has ever been used before or not. No. 1 shows the table ready for work, andNo. 2 the same with top elevated, which canreadily be done to take off saws. etc. It oc-curs to me just now that our artist has madea mistake, and drawn a rip-saw where hesliould have shown a cut-oft or cross-cutsaw, as it is sometimes called. The table ismade of 4x4 seasoned maple. On the topare i)laced three cast-iron \-shaped these tracks on 0 cast-iron wheels having a \-shaped groove ineach. This, you will observe, makes thesliding top of the table so that it moves toand fro with great ease, yet without a bit ofend shake. At a first glance one would al-most think this sufficient; but if you wereto lay a Ki-foot plank on this sliding table-top, and take hold of the end, you would find HIVE-MAKING. 16() HIVE-MAKING. it would have a co
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