. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 31, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 345 " Cups by the Peck" is the soinc- wliat sensational heading of an editorial in the last num- ber of Gleanings in Bee-Ciilturc. But there seems to be good ground for the sensation when we are told that such progress has been made that the Doolittle cell-cups can now be turned out at the rate of 2 000 in an hour. The man who has achieved this is W. H. Pridgen, who has clearly put a lot of brains into the thing. Instead of making the cups one by one. a number of pegs are fastened to a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 31, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 345 " Cups by the Peck" is the soinc- wliat sensational heading of an editorial in the last num- ber of Gleanings in Bee-Ciilturc. But there seems to be good ground for the sensation when we are told that such progress has been made that the Doolittle cell-cups can now be turned out at the rate of 2 000 in an hour. The man who has achieved this is W. H. Pridgen, who has clearly put a lot of brains into the thing. Instead of making the cups one by one. a number of pegs are fastened to a stick, and at one dip each peg gets its portion of wax. Instead of the whirling that each cell had to have to make the was uniform on all sides—which whirling could hardly be done with more than one cell at a time—Mr. Pridgen finds that a little jerk to throw off the superfluous wax is all that is necessary. The outcome of this wholesale sort of production will probably be that Doolittle cell-cups will be listed among regular bee-supplies at such price that no bee-keeper can afford to make them for himself. In view of such 16 to 1 steps in advance, who is ready to say that no further ad- vance in bee-keeping need be expected ?. Bitter Sweet—the engraving on the first page—is kindly loaned us by Mr. James G. Moulton, whose fine art galleries are found at 45 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. Visitors in the city are always cordially invited to inspect his large stock of art productions ; and then, of course, he will not object should the visitors select one or more paint- ings to take with them for the adornment of the walls of their homes. * ? ? « # Mr. Harry S. Howe, of Cuba, wrote us May 15 as follows: " The rainy season is on here, but we still get some swarms between showers. Yesterday one came out in a heavy rain. There are four of us American bee-keepers near here, and all are just going to do it next season !" Mr. Howe says that he is just out of the hos
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