. Gleanings in bee culture. the present rate of increase it willsoon be fully stocked. George Hobler. Hanford, Cal., April 15,1884. AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUZZ-SAW TA-BLES FOR HIVE-MAKING. RAISING AND LOWERING THE TABLE. PRESUME most of you have your table-tops to raise and lower in such a waythat the table is fastened at differentheights, as may be required, by a wood-en slide and a set-screw. Well, we haveexperienced so much trouble in getting stuffwrong because the table-lop slipped down alittle^ tliat .Mr. (iray devised the followingarrangement. The de-vice is all made of cast ^j^iron. Tlie par
. Gleanings in bee culture. the present rate of increase it willsoon be fully stocked. George Hobler. Hanford, Cal., April 15,1884. AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUZZ-SAW TA-BLES FOR HIVE-MAKING. RAISING AND LOWERING THE TABLE. PRESUME most of you have your table-tops to raise and lower in such a waythat the table is fastened at differentheights, as may be required, by a wood-en slide and a set-screw. Well, we haveexperienced so much trouble in getting stuffwrong because the table-lop slipped down alittle^ tliat .Mr. (iray devised the followingarrangement. The de-vice is all made of cast ^j^iron. Tlie part hold- *^ing the thumb-screwis scrpwed fast to tlicframework of tlie saw-table. The part thatslides up and down inthis piece is of castiron, and made taper-ing. It is hinged di-rectly to the movabletable-cover, as you willobserve. Now, it can -™—-—not slip down or settle, because it is wedge-shaped, and yet if the table is to be raised itcan be lifted out any time, and then droppedright back into its original, from 1 TO 7, AND T20 LBS. OF HONEY; ALSO FROM 9TO 36, AND 1200 LBS. OF HONEY. I commenced bee-keeping some years ago withvaried success, sometimes getting as many as 25colonies and plenty of honey, and, again, losing al-most every thing. The spring of 1882 found us withbut one colony, which we increased by artificialswarming to 7, and got 720 lbs. of extracted honey,and considerable comb honey, which we did notweigh. These bees all went through winter in goodcondition on their summer stands. Last spring Ibought two box hives, which gave us nine coloniesto start with. We increased to 36, mostly by naturalswarming, and got about 1200 lbs., mostly extractedhoney, during clover bloom. The latter part of theseason was very pooi, the bees making no surplusto amount to any thing. Two of our colonies starv-ed to death about a month ago, but all the othersare in tine condition, and raising brood nicely. Wehave them in Simplicity hives. J. W. Droke. Hcttiok, HI., Apr
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