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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar 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. Millbb, J. A. Green, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane. Louis H. Scholl, 



G. M. DOOIilTTLE, R. F. HOLTERMANN. "STENOG," W. K. MORRISON. 



CONTENTS OF MARCH 1, 1908 



HONEY MARKET 260 



STRAYSTRAWS 275 



Syrup, Thick or Thin 275 



Formic Acid of Bees 275 



Water. Temperature the Hand can Bear 276 



EDITORIAL 277 



Labeling Weight 277 



Subscriptions, Unpaid 277 



Pure-food Law, Operation of 278 



Corn Syrup Wins Out 278 



Death of E. France 278 



Liquefying Comb Honey 278 



Parcels Post 279 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 280 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 281 



Storm-door for Hives 282 



Honey-exhibits. Roots ^ ■ 283 



Hives on High Stands 284 



Bee-keeping in Canada 285 



Ghurib Das 287 



Shed Apiaries 288 



Moving Bees 288 



Bees Clustering Out 290 



Sections, Split 290 



Winter Cases of Paper 292 



HEADS OF GRAIN 294 



Massachusetts Convention 294 



Nuclei, Three-frame 294 



Bee-sheds for Winter 294 



Feeder. New Bottom 295 



Plural Queens 295 



Foul Brood Not in Foundation 295 



OUR HOME > 296 



Chickens in Florida 296 



Crimson Clover in Tennessee 298 



Temperance 298 



THE UNITED FACTORIES COMPANY. 



This firm is the result of a combination between 

 eleven different factories, all located in the city of 

 Cleveland. Ohio. The following have combined for 

 mutual selling advantages: A buggy-top factory ; a 

 vehicle and harness factory ; a handy wagon and 

 steel-wheel factory; a paint and varnish factory; an 

 incubator and brooder factory ; an agricultural-im- 

 plement factory ; a metal roofing and siding facto- 

 ry ; a sewing-machine factory ; a fence factory ; a 

 stove and range factory, and a roofing factory. 

 This combination proposes to sell its goods at fac- 

 tory prices direct to the consumer; and to reduce 

 further the cost of selling they have combined to 

 advertise as one concern. The offices are situated 

 in the Whitney Building, Cleveland, from which a 

 campaign of education in the line of direct purchase 

 from the makers is being conducted It has long 

 been the desire of political econooaists to eliminate 

 the middle-man; and the plan devised by The Unit- 

 ed Factories Co. seems the most reasonable and 

 feasible of any that has been proposed. The read- 

 ers of this journal have been favored with their ad- 

 vertisement of incubators and brooders, and from 

 time to time we will publish small notices relating, 

 to other phases of their work. Write to them, 

 mentioning this journal. 



SHTJMWAYS RELIABLE SEEDS- 



It is our privilege to call attention to the annual 

 spring catalog of seeds and flowers issued by R. H. 

 Shumway, the great seedsman of Rockford, 111. He 

 stsrted with seeds about the same time A. I. Root 

 commenced to keep bees. By honesty and fair 

 dealing he has succeeded in establishing a large 

 trade in seeds throughout the middle. 



EGGS FOB SALE. 



Through some oversight on our part, the adver- 

 tisement of Frank C. Pellett, of Atlantic, Jowa. of- 

 fering White Wyandotte eggs, was omitted from 

 our Feb. 15th number. Please note his advertise- 

 ment in this and succeeding issues. 



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