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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 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. Grkkn, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane, " Stenog," Louis H. Scholl, 

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



CONTENTS OF JULY 1, 1908 



HONEY COLUMN /88 



STRAY STRAWS 799 



EDITORIAL 800 



c;leanings from pacific coAsr sos 



Honev from Fruit Bioom 803 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 804 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 805 



Program for National 805 



Length of Bee-fiigiit 806 



Rules for Grading Honey 806 



Troubles of Amateur Bee-keepers 807 



Extracting in Cold Weather 808 



Honey for Canning 809 



Full Sheets in Split Sections 810 



Production of Extracted Honey 811 



Honey Dishonestly Graded 813 



Bees, Non-swarming Race 814 



Bee-keepers' Associations 817 



Cottage in Florida, A. 1. Root's 818 



Honey Stored below Brood 819 



Hornets, Bald-faced 819 



Bees as Reflex Machines 820 



HEADS OF GRAIN 828 



Combs Crosswise of Sections 828 



Swa'm from Colony with Clipped Queen 82« 



Capping-melters, Old 828 



Miller Splints Not Satisfactory 828 



Watering Bees— a New Plan 829 



Honey-dew on Peach Leaves 829 



Section-holders 829 



Grading of Queens 829 



Sweet Clover in Illinois 829 



Water Paint Not Liked c29 



Spring Feeding Preferred 830 



Division-boards for Dummies 830 



Bees Shaking Abdomens 830 



Spring Feeding and Robbing 830 



Sulphur for Fumigating ." 830 



Cutting Cells Making Bees Cross 831 



Non-separatored Honey 831 



Why Bees will not Enter Supers 831 



Wintering in Paper, Successful 831 



Noise, Effect of on Sw'arms 832 



Swarm and Queen Caught on a Pole 832 



Colonies with Drones as Honey-producers 832 



Sections, To Clean Rapidly 832 



Chittim-tree 832 



Bees Capping Honey Watery 832 



SOMETHING NEW AND VALUABLE. 



Producers of fancy comb honey will be greatly interested in 

 the advertisement of Mr. Sackett, which appears elsewhere in 

 these columns, wherein he calls attention to his new wrapper 

 for enclosing sections of comb honey, thereby affording protec- 

 tion from dust, etc. The wrapper is made of transparent paper 

 so thai the honey is sufficiently seen by the customer before 

 purchasing it. Instead of detracting from the appearance of 

 section honey the paper really adds toil. It is, funhermore. 

 quite a protection from drip, because, if a section leaks, the 

 leakage is confined to that one section. The cost of these 

 wrappers is small — more especially so when we consider their 

 manifest advantages. We know Mr. Sackett, who is the in- 

 ventor, will be delighted to correspond with prospective users 

 of these wrappers, and would be glad to furnish necessary sam- 

 ples to all those who are interested in the production of comb 

 honev of a superior grade. 



THE .\,MERIC.\N BEE JOIRN.VL. 



\\"e lake great pleasure in giving a few words of commenda- 

 tion of the " old reliable " American Bee Journal, whose home 

 is 118 West Jackson St., Chicago, III. As the mother journal 

 of American bee papers, it is only right and proper that we 

 should say a word in praise of our old friend. Recently it has 

 taken on a new lease of life by reducing its subscription price 

 to 50 cts a year, and becoming a monthly magazine instead of 

 a weekly newspaper. Considering the low rate of subscrip- 

 tion we can. not see how a bee-keeper can afford to pass it by 

 when making up his list of periodicals for the family library 

 table. It has a strong corps of editors — men and women who 

 are experts in the science of bee-keeping, and who know how 

 to write interesting matter. As a further inducement to sub- 

 scribe, the editor promises to give an untested queen to all 

 those who send in their subscription now, at the rate of $1.00 

 for the two. In other words, the paper is free. 



The American lice Journal has a record that carries it back 

 into the misiy past, when bee-keeping was in its infancy and 

 there were only about three bee journals published in all the 

 world, whereas there are more than eighty now. At the helm 

 it has Mr. George W. York, who does all in his power to turn 

 out a clean up-to-date bee magazine and thus sustain the best 

 traditions of the " old reliable." We know he is always 

 ready and willing to accept suggestions for the improvement of 

 his journal; therefore the future policy of the paper lies largely 

 with bee-keepers themselves. We therefore suggest that you 

 remember the American Bee Journal when making up your list 

 of papers for which you intend to subscribe. 



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