Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 2.—This shows the levers in the same positionsas in Fitf. 1, but the engine is turned around, thustaking up more floor-space. engines using gasoline or alcohol as a fuelare becoming more popular than ever amongfarmers. A few years ago a gasoline-enginewas considered a very unreliable source of power; but since the advent of the automo-bile they have been improved vipon and madeso perfect that there is no reason why theyshould not give good service every day inthe year. It used to be acommon occurrence to see aman with a gasoline-enginestruggling hard and getting
Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 2.—This shows the levers in the same positionsas in Fitf. 1, but the engine is turned around, thustaking up more floor-space. engines using gasoline or alcohol as a fuelare becoming more popular than ever amongfarmers. A few years ago a gasoline-enginewas considered a very unreliable source of power; but since the advent of the automo-bile they have been improved vipon and madeso perfect that there is no reason why theyshould not give good service every day inthe year. It used to be acommon occurrence to see aman with a gasoline-enginestruggling hard and gettinghimself out of breath tryingto make it go; but with themachines put out by factoriesat the present time, a failurein starting the engine andkeeping it running is almostunknown unless the operatorknows nothing at all aboutthe principle or pays no at-tention to the very complete. Fig. 3.—This arrangement gives economy of floor-space; but the positions of the operating-levers are notquite so convenient. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 701 instructions that are sent out by all man-ufacturers of good outfits. WHAT KIND OF ENGINE TO BUY. This is a question that every intelligentfarmer or bee keeper must decide when he iscontemplating the purchase of an have spent hundreds of dollars in testingdifferent makes of engines, and have on handnow two or three kinds which will pro1)ablynever be used, simply because they are notadapted to the work required of them. Weformerly were of the opinion that a verysmall light engine of the type used on motorbicycles would be very satisfactory for run-ning honey-extractors; but we found that theywere very delicate, and easy to get out ofadjustment. Although we had no trouble inrunning them, yet the average person not ex-perienced would have a good deal oftiouble. We next tried a marine engine of the two-cycle type instea
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