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 . lder laid flaton a board. On the left are two little boxes;one is to hold a wet rag, on which the ironis to be wiped exery time vou take it fromthe tire, that we may have a bright cleanSI rface. The other is to liold the powderedrosin ; and if you wish to work with satis-faction, I would advise you not to get t
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 . lder laid flaton a board. On the left are two little boxes;one is to hold a wet rag, on which the ironis to be wiped exery time vou take it fromthe tire, that we may have a bright cleanSI rface. The other is to liold the powderedrosin ; and if you wish to work with satis-faction, I would advise you not to get therosin on your fingers or clothes. For abrush for ajjplying the rosin, draw somecandle-wickiug into a tin tube. You can do a cleaner job by having the rosin mixedwith oil, for all that is left after solderingmay be wiped off with a soft cloth. Ourgirls use the rosin and oil for making theinside work to extractors. The ability to dosmooth nice work, and do it rapidly, comesby practice. Below I give you a cut of the soldering-iron, the bar of solder, the box of rosin, andthe printed directions, such as are sent bymail for $ Common solder is worthabout 20c. per lb.; but for fine nice work, weuse a larger proportion of tin. About equalparts of lead and tin is the general SOLDKKINti-lKON AND I3IPLEMENTS. You will probably get along very Avellwith bright new tin ; but when you come totry repairing, or mending old breakswhere the metals are old and rusty, muchmore skill will be required to make a strongjob. You will also find that somethingmore than rosin is needed for iron, brass, andcopper, and ror rusty tinware. This waswhere my soldering implements came in,years ago. I got hold of the idea in this way:One dull day in the winter, a stranger called,asking if we had any tinware we would likerepaired, free of charge. You may be surethat he and I were friends at once, and wegathered up the tin pans, and set him atwork. He took a pretty little camphene-lamp out of his pocke
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