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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 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, " Stenog," Louis H. Scholl, 

 G. M. DooLiTTLE, R. F. Holtermann, W. K. Morrison. 



CONTENTS OF JUNE 15, 1908 



HONEY COLUMN 728 



STRAY STRAWS 739 



EDITORIAL 740 



Hiving Bees after Demonstration 742 



Helping the National to Advertise Honey 742 



Diagnosing Colonies at Entrance 742 



Diagnosing Diseased Brood 742 



Alfalfa Cut before Ripening 743 



Honey — Caution about Selling 743 



Season for 1908 743 



Ordering Supplies Late 744 



Queens, Finding in Large Colonies 744 



Bees in South Africa 745 



Ontario Depanment on Spraying 745 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 746 



FANCIES AND FALLACIES 747 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 748 



Bees Choosing a Home 748 



GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES 750 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 751 



Extracted Honey, Production of 751 



Queen-traps, Taylor on 753 



Splints, Wooden 755 



Honey Exhibit, Novel 757 



Increase, Making 757 



Merrill, D. E 757 



Frames Wired without Piercing 758 



Aspinwall Slatted Frames 758 



Equipment for Extracting 759 



Troubles of a Bee-keeper 761 



HEADS OF GRAIN 763 



Hershiser's Method Indorsed 763 



Starters, Size of 763 



Canadian Honey-plants 763 



Miller Introducing-cage 763 



Swarm-catcher made of Sack 764 



Bees and Honey in Utah 764 



Dewey Foundation-fastener 764 



OUR HOMES 765 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 768 



THE RESULT OF TOEPPERWEIN'S WORD CONTEST. 



1. Edna L. Crocker, Danforth, Me., 448 words. 



2. Name unknown, 435. 



3. A. B. Shideler, North Branch, la., 434. 



4. M. W. Tyler, Sweet Springs, Mo., 425. 



5. R. N. and L. S. Gillette, Fostoria, la., 421. 



6. H. Greenwold, Lumberton, N. J., 418 



7. D. B. Kinnison, David City, Neb., 417. 



8. James E. Storkey, Converse City, Neb., 417. 



9. Ada F. Pellet, Atlantic, la., 416. 



10. Isaac F. Tillinghast, Factoryville, Pa., 416. 



11. H. C. Kautz, North Water Gap, Pa., 415. 



12. H. A. Pinegar, Wellington, Utah, 411. 



Over 1000 persons entered the above contest. Owing to the 

 immense amount of work connected with such a contest, and 

 the technical knowledge required, Messrs. Toepperwein en- 

 gaged an expert to examine all the papers, with the foregoing 

 result. The problem was to create as many words as possible 

 out of the word Toepperwein. 



THE SEABOARD AIR-LINE RAILWAY. 



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 Seaboard Railway. To many of the readers of Gleanings 

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 cusses truck-growing and fniit-growing as best suited to much 

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 railway passes is extremely pleasant and agreeable compared 

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 ern produce.' Being early it takes the "cream" of the northern 

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 ern produce, so that, as a matter of fact, the South is the 

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 to go to, and the Seaboard Magazine was started with the ex- 

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