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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 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. Green, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crank. Louis H. SchoUi, 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. R. F. HOLTERMANN. " STENOG." W. K MORRISON. 



CONTENTS OF APRIL I, 1908 



HONEY MARKET 396 



STRAY STRAWS 411 



Hives, Shall we Paint? 412 



Requeening 412 



Lake Tahoe 412 



EDITORIAL 413 



Winter Cases, Color of 413 



Breeding for Color 413 



Sugar and Honey as Food 413 



Honey Liquefied in Incubator 414 



Split Sections 414 



Clover Seed, Furnishing it Free 415 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 416 



POINTERS BY THE JAY 417 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 418 



Spring Dwindling 418 



Record of Queens How to Keep 418 



Strong Colonies Early 419 



Spring Management 420 



Feeding for Stimulating 422 



Splints T. Wires 423 



Hives, Painting 424 



GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES.426 



Swiss Apiary 426 



Bee-keeping in Georgia 428 



Bee-keeping in Guiana 429 



Breeding of Queens 429 



Nine Years of Success 431 



Sections Perfectly Filled 431 



Honey at Fairs 433 



Improvement in Bees 433 



Bee-keeping in New Zealand 434 



Alfalfa in Nebraska 436 



Sectional Hives Ahead 435 



Hive-shed, Waggoner's 435 



Step-ladder. Handy 437 



Hees as Reflex Machines 438 



HEADS OF GRAIN 445 



Swarm Control 445 



Unfinished Sections for Feeding 445 



Packing Bees for Winter 446 



Weighing Hives in Spring 446 



Position of Cluster in Winter 446 



Ducks in the Apiary 447 



Honey Paste 447 



Feeding to Keep Hives Warm 448 



Watering Bees in the Hive 448 



Queens Superseded in Winter 448 



Concrete Trough for Bees 448 



Entrance-guard to Prevent Robbing. 448 



Honey Liquefied in an Incubator 448 



OUR HOMES 449 



BICTCIiES TO THE FORE. 



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A WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION. 



A great change is taking place in the manufacture 

 of millwork for house-builders. One of the leaders 

 • in this great movement is the now celebrated firm 

 of Gordon, Van Tine Co.. of Davenport, la., whose 

 advertisement appears elsewhere. Formerly the 

 home-builder had to be content with what the local 

 pla aing-mills were pleased to furnish— often, too, at 

 exorbi'.ant rates for poor workmanship. An exami- 

 nation of our advertising pages for the past few 

 months will show the line of work to be expected 

 from this firm to be the very best. Catering to a 

 wide circle of buyers they furnish a home-builder 

 with a wide variety of styles from which to make a 

 choice such as no local mill can hope to equal. This 

 kind of business is bound to grow until we shall be 

 able to purchase ready-made houses and cottages 

 made by automatic machinery. It looks that way, 

 and it is but a question of time before we shall be 

 in position to order a ready-made house as easily as 

 we now order a ready-made overcoat There are 

 many reasons why such work can be done at a large 

 factory better, quicker, and cheaper than it can be 

 done locally. Write to the Gordon, Van Co., 6T4 

 Case St.. Davenport, la., for convincing evidence. 



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