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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Apr. 15 



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. Crane. Louis H. Scholl, 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. R. F. HOLTBRMANN. " STENOG," W. K. MORRISON. 



CONTENTS OF APRIL 15, 1908 



HONEY MARKET 472 



STRAYSTRAWS 485 



EDITORIAL 487 



Feeding. Fall versus Spring 487,504 



Alsike Clover Discussed 487 



Wiley on Glucose 487 



Correction by Weber 488 



SimmiDs, Samuel, as Inventor 488 



Labeling. Need of Careful 488 



Glucose in Australia 489 



Parcels Post 489 



Glucose Decision. Result of 489 



Qrading-rules for Colorado 490 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 491 



FANCIES AND FALLACIES 492 



Glucose, Crane on 493 



Basswood, Crane on 493 



POINTERS BY THE JAY 494 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 495 



Honey from Cured Colonies 495 



Foul Brood. To Get Rid of 495 



Transferring, Todd on 496 



Bees, Moving them in Car Lots 500 



Plural-queen System 505 



Plurality of Queens, Simmins on 506 



Dual and Plural Queen Systems 507 



Corn Products Company 508 



HEADS OF GRAIN 509 



Honey Liquefied in Cans 509 



Queens Reared under Swarming Impulse 509 



Queees from Natural-swarm Cells 509 



Queens, To Test 509 



Cement Paint for Hives 510 



Honey-dew in January.. 510 



Bees Watered on a Wet Board 510 



Outdoor Feeding for Stimulating 510 



Sweet Clover for Stock 510 



OUR HOMES 511 



CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES. 



If you are on the outlook for a family carriage or 

 buggy we should like to call attention to the adver- 

 tisement on page 451 of the Elkhart Carriage and 

 Harness Manufacturing Co., Elkhart. Ind. This is 

 one of the largest firms, if not the largest, of the 

 kind in the world. They have been dealing direct 

 with the public, without the intervention of the 

 middleman, for a period of 35 years. In fact, we 

 think they were pioneers in the business of selling 

 vehicles by mail. They have built up an immense 

 business by fair and honorable dealing, without 

 which a mail order business could not long exist. 

 Our older readers do not need an introduction, be- 

 cause the firm is well known to them by its adver- 

 tisement in these columns year after year, and 

 many of them purchased their family conveyance 

 from this source long ago when ordering by mail 

 was something new, and a daring thing to do. The 

 catalog of the firm is always to be had merely for 

 the asking ; and as it lists over 200 vehicles and 65 

 styles of harness it is really worth sending for. If 

 you send for it, please mention this journal 



THE CHARM OF EVERGREENS. 



There is a place on every farm for evergreen 

 trees. A thick belt of high evergreens makes a 

 splendid shelter from wintry blasts. Protection of 

 this kind is very welcome to the cattle, sheep, and 

 poultry on a farm, more particularly when the trees 

 are so planted as to check some peculiarly trying 

 wind which blows in springtime when animals want 

 to get out of doors after a long winter's imprison- 

 ment. Then. too. these trees serve to embellish a 

 place and screen more sensitive plants and shrubs. 

 Splendid hedges may be made of Norway spruce 

 and arbor vita;. A thicket of pines or firs is an ex- 

 cellent roosting-place for the turkeys, guineas, and 

 pheasants ; and the chickens also appreciate it. 

 Many evergreens are decidedly ornamental, such as 

 the blue spruce, the cedars, and the junipers. We 

 are moved to make these remarks by perusing the 

 catalog of Mr. D. Hill, box 87, Dundee, 111., who is a 

 prominent specialist in this line. He has made a 

 study of evergreens for the prairie States, and has 

 been very successful in finding them. 



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