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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Object:— To promote and protect the interests of its mem 

 bars; to prevent the adulteration of honey. 



Officers:— E R. Root, President, Medina, O.; R. O. Aikin 

 Vice-president, Loveland, Col.; Dr. A. B. Mason, Secre- 

 tary, 3512 Monroe St.. Sta. B, Toledo, O.; Eugene Secor, 

 General Manager, Forest City, Iowa. .,„ „ 



Board of Directors:— E. Whitcomb, Friend, Neb.; W. Z 

 Hutchinson. Flint, Mich.; A. I. Root, Medina, O.; E. T. 

 Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo.; P. H. Elwood, Starkville, N. Y.; 

 E. R. Root, Medina, O.; T. G.Newman, San Francisco, 

 Cal.; G. M. Doolittle, Borodino, N. Y.; W. F. Marks, Cha^ 

 pinville, N. Y.; J. M. Hambaugh, Escondido, Cal.; 0. P. 

 Dadant, Hamilton. 111.: C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



Fees:- Annual membership fee, Jl-OO. Remittances may be 

 sent here or to General Manager as above. 



RAMBLER GOING TO CUBA. 



Yks, we have made arrang-ements with 

 J. H. Martin, the Rambler, to go to the 

 Pearl of the Antilles. He is going with 

 camera, bicycle, and that characteristic 

 umbrella and stovepipe hat. While he is 

 making the trip on his own account, he is 

 also going with the view of studying the 

 conditions in Cuba, and writing them up in 

 his inimitable way for Gleanings. His 

 notes of travel are always interesting; and 

 after having gone over some of the territory 

 in California through which he had preced- 

 ed me, I find that he tells the exact truth. 

 We may, therefore, expect a very interest- 

 ing and valuable series from his pen, and 

 by this time I doubt not he is on the way. 

 Mr. Murray, our artist, will prepare the il- 

 lustrations as before. 



A TRIP TO THE WEST INDIES. 



The bee-keeping industry in these islands 

 has taken such a start in the past few years 

 that Gleanings now has many subscribers 

 there. To study the existing conditions, 

 and learn more regarding the requirements 

 of bee-keepers in those islands, Mr. A. L. 

 Boyden, Secretary of The A. I. Root Co., 

 will shortly make a trip to the British West 

 Indies, British Guiana, Trinidad, return- 

 ing via Jamaica and Cuba. As our friends 

 in these places may wish to communicate 

 with him we outline his trip as nearly as it 

 can be determined at this writing. 



Bridgetown, Barbados, Nov. 5. 



Georgetown, British Guiana, Nov. 13. 



Port of Spain, Trinidad, Nov. 16. 



Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 29. 



Santiago, Cuba, Dec. 5. 



Manzanillo, Cuba, Dec. 7. 



Cienfuegos, Cuba, Dec. 9. 



Havana, Cuba, Dec. 14. 



These dates are only approximate, espe- 

 cially for Cuban points. Letters may be 

 addressed to Mr. A. L. Boyden at any of 

 the places; and if marked "General Deliv- 

 ery" they will reach him, without doubt. 

 He expects to visit as many bee-keepers at 

 each place as time will permit ; therefore 

 many of our subscribers will likely receive 

 a call from him. To save time, as soon as 



he reaches each port he will probably ar- 

 range a little trip to various points, and 

 would, therefore, like to have parties writ- 

 ing- him give explicit directions for reaching 

 their homes or apiaries. No letters can 

 reach Medina from any of these points be- 

 fore he starts, and should, therefore, be ad- 

 dressed to Bridgetown, Barbados, or other 

 points named above. 



HOME OF THE HONEY-BEES GROWING AGAIN. 



Owing to the fact that the Home of the 

 Honey-bees is being enlarged, and that we 

 are "all torn up," it was not possible for 

 me to continue my series of travels, tinish- 

 ing up mj^ write-up of that bee-keepers' 

 paradise, for this issue. As already hinted 

 at, the Root establishment is being enlarg- 

 ed as well as improved in many ways; and 

 while these changes are in progress it has 

 taken the time of all of us, to a very great 

 extent, to look after things. 



Among the improvements is a new foun- 

 dation-factory that is almost fire-proof. It 

 is designed especially for making Weed 

 process foundation. Removing this depart- 

 ment from the basement of the main build- 

 ing gives us additional room to use for other 

 purposes. The wood-working building is 

 also being enlarged, and a new roof has 

 been put on the boiler-house, giving us at 

 the same time a drying-room. Besides the 

 increased capacity of buildings, we are 

 also putting in several thousand dollars' 

 worth of new and perfected machinery. 

 Among these is a new cylinder press to help 

 out the regular Gleanings press that has 

 been compelled to run almost night and day 

 to keep up with the work. 



BEET VERSUS CANE SUGAR IN SOME OF THE 

 FRUIT-CANNERIES OF CALIFORNIA. 



I HAVE received a letter from Mr. Thomas 

 Wm. Cowan (now sojourning in California), 

 editor of the Britisli Bcc Journal, and who, 

 through the columns of that paper, has rec- 

 ommended cane in preference to beet sugar 

 for the feeding of bees. In a letter just re- 

 ceived, he writes: 



Deat Mr. Root :—\ have just been staying at a fruit- 

 cauutry in th<, S.ima Cruz Moaule-.ius, whe e they u e 

 nolhmg but guaranteed cane sugar 1 )r canning pur- 

 poses, and their experience wiih beet .'-ugHr is very 

 similar to outs in Eng and It may ue that the humid 

 climate may have something to do with it; but it is 

 quite ctrtaiu that beet sugai !■- bad, n-^t only for bees 

 but also for pieserviiig truits in England. I suppose 

 in the laboratory it i-. po sible to get perfectly puie 

 cane sugar from beets so that. chemiCHlly, it would be 

 identical with that obtained from .sugar cane but in 

 piaclice it is found that ihere aie cerlaiti potash salts 

 in sugar from beet whi h 'o not occui in those from 

 sugar Cine. Leather and beefsteak have chemically 

 the s.nie composition but there is a d fference be- 

 tween ihera. Thos. Wm. Cowan. 



Pacific Grove, Cal . Sept 23 



It may be possible, as Mr. Cowan sug- 

 gests, that the humid climate of England 

 may have something to do with the matter. 

 If it is not too much trouble I should like 

 to have him give me the address of the can- 

 nery to which he refers — not that I in the 

 least question his word, but because I 

 .should lil'eto Tet a detailed statement from 



