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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E R. Root, 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors— Dr. C. C. Miller, J. A. Grbbn, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane, Louis H. ScHOLii, 



G. M. DOOIilTTLE. R. F. HOLTBRMANN, "STBNOG," W. K. MORRISON. 



CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY 1, 1908 



HONEY MARKET 124 



STRAYSTRAWS 139 



EDITORIAL 141 



Bees, Showing at Theaters 141 



Detroit and the Convention of N. B. K. A 141 



Weight, Labeling 141 



Success from Failure 141 



Bees, Profits with 141 



Appalachian Forest Reserve 142 



Parcels Post 142, 162 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 143 



Drone Comb. Excess of 143 



NOTES FROM CANADA 144 



Bees as Fertilizers 144 



Honey, Liquefying 145 



POINTERS FROM THE JAY 145 



Bees and Colors 145 



OLE ANINGS FROM PACIFIC COAST 146 



Enemies of Bees 146 



Robber-flies 146 



Dragon-flies 146 



Praying Mantis 147 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 147 



Miller Cage Improved 147 



Honey, Selling 148 



Mercer's Apiaries 149 



Minister and his Bees 150 



Winter Cases of Tar-paper 150 



Sections, Split 151 



Rheumatism and Stings 153 



Bees in Quebec 153 



Queens, Two in a Hive 155 



Plural queen System 156, 157 



Requeening 157 



Massachusetts Society of Bee-keepers 159 



New York Pood Show 159 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 160 



Sweet Clover for Stock 161 



Anti-saloon League in Florida 162 



Post, Parcels 162 



KELLOGG'S STRAWBERRY CATALOG. 



This is certainly a model catalog, gotten out by a 

 model firm, It is something more than a mere cat- 

 alog, for it contains a first-class treatise on straw- 

 berry culture, such as one would naturally expect to 

 pay 25 cents for. In fact, it looks more like a work 

 on the culture of strawberries than a catalog. The 

 berry business is particularly well suited to the 

 temperament of the average bee-keeper, and no fin- 

 er occupation can be found, A glance at this fine 

 book will show this to be the case. It is handsome- 

 ly gotten up, well printed and illustrated on good 

 paper, and, all together, reflects credit on the busi- 

 ness and enterprise of the firm getting it out. We 

 believe any painstaking intelligent man could actu- 

 ally learn strawberry-growing from this so-called 

 catalog, and we mean what we say. It is almost 

 needless to add that the firm sending out such a 

 book is reliable, prompt, and satisfactory in all its 

 business relations. Write at once to R. M. Kellogg, 

 Three Rivers, Mich., for a copy. Then take your 

 time to make a selection of berry-plants. Study its 

 wisdom on berry culture, and you will not regret it. 



BURPEE'S, THE GREAT SEED FIRM. 



We are again indebted to this firm for a copy of 

 their well-known publication, "Burpee's Farm An- 

 nual," and, it possible, the present copy is an im- 

 provement on its predecessors. It has six beautiful 

 colored plates of specialties with a handsome litho- 

 graphed cover. In addition it shows sixteen new 

 varieties of vegetables and flowers in their natural 

 colors. It is needless to say that a firm which can 

 turn out such a catalog has enterprise, genius, and 

 financial resources back of it, and, of course, is sure 

 to meet with success in its chosen field. 



The Burpee people are responsible for some vege- 

 tables and flowers whose names are now household 

 words, in this country at least. For example the 

 well-known Rocky Ford melon is simply Burpee's 

 Netted Gem ; and in sweet peas they have had the 

 field to themselves for some years. They have also 

 taken a great deal of interest in developing special 

 varieties of vegetables suitable to the market-gar- 

 dener, and have been remarkably successful along 

 this line. Catalog is free if you mention Gleanings. 



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