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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15 



Gleanings In Bee Culture 



R. Root 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors:— Dk. 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 JULY 15, 1908 



HONEY COLUMN »56 



STRAY STRAWS 867 



White Clover. Crop of 1 908 867 



EDITORIAL 868 



Cage of Wire to Stop Robbing 868 



Waltzing of Bees, Cause of 868 



Hive-numbers, Cost of • ■ -868 



Greasy Waste for Smoker Fuel 868 



Veils with Holes in them 868 



Massachusetts Bui lei in on Diseases of Bees 869 



Death of C. Davenport Monette 869 



Hive lifting Device 869 



California Honey Crop 869 



Swarming Propensity of Caucasians 870 



Caucasians, Report on at Medina 870 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 871 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 872 



Honeys of Texas 873 



FANCIES AND FALLACIES o73 



GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES 875 



NOTES FROM CANADA 8/6 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 877 



Hive-tool, Atwatet's 87' 



Dandelions 87^ 



Hives, Divisible 878 



Separators, To Clean 8*8 



Kramer, Ulrich 879 



Queens, Superseding 88l 



Bee-escape, Whitney 88? 



Hay-caps for Alfalfa 885 



Bee-house, Portable 885 



Wax-rendering 887 



Breeding Animals for Business by dossing 888 



Troubles of an Amateur Bee-keeper 889 



Age of I arvi 890 



Extracting-tools 892 



Convention Notes 893 



HEADS OF GRAIN 893 



Introducing Valuable Queens 893 



Hermaphrodite Bees 894 



Shade for Bees 894 



Alsike and Timothy 894 



OUR HOMES 895 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT. .'. 897 



SUBURBAN LIFE. 



The above is a periodical that has spmng into a wide popu- 

 larity the last few years. There are several reasons for its 

 large circulation. One is the whole-souled enthusiastic way 

 it praises rural life. This causes the city man to remember 

 the days of his youth when he was a raw-looking country boy 

 picking blackberries on the old homestead. It causes the mral 

 dweller to take a new interest in his quiet existence. He 

 spruces up. His hflme is made far tidier and homelike than it 

 used to be, because he is emulated by the excellent example 

 of others whose work he finds exemplified in Suburban Life. 

 The beautiful pictures he sees in this magazine fill him with 

 a heart-felt desire to have a little of heaven here on earth. If 

 the goodman of the house does not appreciate the charm of 

 these pictures his wife does to the very utmost; and if he does 

 not subscribe, she will. Many who never half appreciated the 

 beauty of the fields and woods around the old homestead have 

 been brought to a realizing sense of the charm of nature right 

 where they live. They realize that country life is not lonely 

 with lovely plants, birds, animals, and insects all around them 

 in great numbers. The bright ideas they get from such maga- 

 zines have a real value in dollars and cents, to say nothing 

 about the inspiration conveyed by very many beautiful pictures, 

 so that the subscription money is not begrudged. Suburban 

 Life works on a far higher plane than the ordinary farm paper, 

 and yet it does it in such a manner that he who runs may read, 

 for the language is direct and simple. Many suppose that mag- 

 azines of this class are gotten up for city folks or fancy farmers 

 with much money to spend; but as a matter of fact they are 

 not. The idea is to glorify mral life, to the end that the 

 dwellers will be happier and more contented with their lot be- 

 cause of the great possibilities all around them. 



A GOOD season for QUEENS. 



The season has proven thus far to be an exceptionally good 

 one for raising queens. Even.' thing has been in the queen- 

 breedeis' favor, so that they not only have plenty of them but 

 the quality is exceptionally high. We wish, therefore, to 

 suggest that this is a very favorable time to purchase queens — 

 that is, just 's soon as the supers are oS and every thing cleared 

 up. By putting young vigorous queens at the head of every 

 colony, you provide a sort of insurance for next season. There 

 will be less trouble in wintering and springing, and also less 

 swarming. The queen-breeders who are using our columns are 

 a very intelligent class of men, and we believe they are doing 

 ,heir best to give buyers a square deal. 



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