Scientific American, March 1, 1856. Bees and the honey; expelling rats, etc

Features

How to Expel Rats

Wooden Ware Machine

Growth of Western Towns

Stalk Cutters and Husk Splitters

List of Patent Claims

Pressure of the Wind

Cowrie Gum

Fire Proof Floors

Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1855

New Method of Feeding Grain

Rides--Their Construction for Active Use

The Persia

Patent Finishing Plane

Launch of the Steam Frigate Niagara

The Locomotive

Anticipated Floods

The Bees and the Honey

Pearsall's Method of Preserving Flour and Meal

Black Oak Bark in Tanning

Our Prizes

A Word to the Wise

Corrugated Iron

Recent American Patents

Incrustations in Steam Boilers

Cooper's Torpedo

Important Items

Mechanics

Inventors, and Manufacturer

Extensive Aluminous Shales

Learn to Smell

Centrifugal Action among the Stars

Departments

To Correspondents