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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Feb 15 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E. R. Root, 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. KuOT 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors— Dr. C. C. MillLeb, J. A. Grben, Pbof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane. Louis H. Scholl, 



G. M. DOOMTTLK. R. P. HOLTERMANN. " STKNOG." W. K MORRISON. 



CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY 15, 1908 



HONEY MARKET 184 



STRAYSTRAWS 199 



Blossoms, Time of H'orming 200 



Prohibition in Chicago 200 



EDITORIAL 141 



Cattle vs. Bees 201 



Basswoods, Raising 201 



Bees for Japan 201 



Moths and Foul Brood 201 



Sweet Clover for Cattle 202 



Honey for Hotels 202, 203 



Bees and Rheumatism 202 



Bottom Ventilation in Cellar 202 



Adulteration Diminished 202 



Wells System 20S 



Bees as Reflex Machines 203, 223 



Smelter Smoke, Deadly Effects of 204 



Bees in Hawaii 204 



Leasing Public Land 205 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 205 



Swarming, To Prevent 205 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 206 



Labels on Honey 207 



Exhibiting Granulated Hoiev 207 



FANCIES AND FALfiACIES 208 



Forests. Destructidn of 208 



Paper over Section Honey 



Honey dew Honey 



Bee-preserve. New 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE.... 



Queen-rearing 



Sibbald Wax-press 



Syrup, Thick vs. Thin 



Swarms Choosing Location 



Wintering in Slightly Damp Cellar — 



American Hives in Europe 



Home-made Windmill 



Uncapping-boxes 



Bees in Log Gums 



Sweet Clover 



Honey-gate, Home-made 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



Trouble, Mysterious, Explained 



Basswoods, Difficulty in Germinating. 



Honey, Liquefying Slowly 



Report from Australia 



Hive-stand Made of Slab 



Starters Discussed 



Alexander Feeder Improved 



Springs to Hold Eotrance-blocks. . . . . . 



Fall Feeding. Late 



Law Concerning Honey in Tin 



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KNIVES AND SCISSORS. 



If you are on the outlook for a really good pocket- 

 knife we think that the pages of Gleanings will be 

 of service to you in finding something durable and 

 satisfactory. If you will turn to the advertisement 

 of Maher & Grosh Co., A street. Toledo, Ohio, you 

 will find advertised a line of cutlery goods. Do not 

 think we advise without knowing the facts, for we 

 sent to them for samples some time ago, and have 

 been trying them right here in the office. The 

 pocket-knife is just to our liking— sharp, well 

 shaped, well bound, and yet not too heavy. We 

 consider it a really good knife. The scissors we 

 have are also satisfactory in every way— close-fitting 

 and sharp. Moreover, we believe that bota knife 

 and scissors may be readily sharpened when re- 

 quired. We do not know for a certainty, but we 

 believe the Maher & Grosh Co. would return the 

 money to a dissatisfied customer who returned the 

 goods, as they have been doing a mail-order busi- 

 ness for years on the square-deal principle. 



FINE TOOLS FOB THE GARDENER. 



In nothing is American mechanical skill more 

 clearly shown than in the designing and construc- 

 tion of agricultural tools. Other countries are so 

 hopelessly far behind that they can not be consid- 

 ered in the race at all. We do not here allude to 

 horse-driven machinery, but rather to hand-power 

 appliances for the gardener and truck-grower, such 

 as is manufactured by the Bateman Mfg. Co., of 

 Grenloch. N. J., who turn out in wholesale fashion 

 an immense number of beautifully constructed gar- 

 dening-tools. Some of these tools will actually do 

 better work than any person can perform by hand. 

 For example, no man could perform the marvelous- 

 ly accurate work done by one of their " Iron Age " 

 machines for distributing garden seeds. In point 

 of fact, the work of seed-planting is rendered a 

 pleasure instead of a drudgery, as used to be the 

 case in this country in years gone by. The modern 

 truck-grower can not do without these tools. They 

 are fixtures in his business, and he would stop 

 work rather than attempt to do without them. 1 f 

 you are not acquainted with the superior merits of 

 the '■ Iron Age " line of tools, write for catalog. 



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