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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



Gleanings In Bee Culture 



E. R. Root 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



.^ss't Editor 



Department Editors: 



-Dr. C. C. Miller, J A. Green, Prop. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane, " Stenog," Louis H. Scholl, 



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



CONTENTS OF DECEMBER 1, 1908 



HONEY COLUMN 1412 



STRAY STRAWS 1423 



EDITORIAL 1424 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 1427 



NOTES FROM CANADA 1428 



Robbing 1428 



Finding Qaeens in Populous Stocks 1428 



Requeening 1428 



Basswood Pollen 1428 



Leaks in Hives, Stopping 1428 



Losses Made Profitable 1428 



GLEANINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES 1429 



Beeswax in France 1429 



Adulteration, Expensive 1429 



Tariff on Honey and Wax 1429 



Pure-food Law 1429 



Decision on Bees Contested 1429 



Foods, Value of , 1429 



Sweet Clover, Value of 1430 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 1430 



Apiary, Locating 1430 



Honey, Price of in Colorado 1430 



Colorado Convention 1430 



Lectures at Institutes 1431 



Grading of Comb Honey 1431 



Drouth Increasing Flow of Nectar 1431 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 1430 



Argentine Ant. 1432 



Bees in Brazil 



Bee-hives, Grotesque German 



Selling Comb Honey. ■ 



Comb Honey Twelve Years Old 



Wintering Bees in a Shed 



Extracling-room, Hansen's 



Comb Foundation Discussed 



Cuban Bee-keeping 



Comb-honey Supers 



Increase, Making 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



Honey Fermenting in Hives 



Veils of Wire Cloth 



Moving from Outyards 



Skunks in Apiary. ...... - . 



Queen-cells, Cause of their Destruction. 



Bee-paralysis 



Wiring, Vertical .... 



Chickens Eating Drones 



Honey Spoiled by Boiling 



Bees Attracted by Nectar More than Color 



Propolis Mixed with Wax 



Light Italians Gentle 



Entrance-contractor, Tien's 



OUR HOMES 



TEMPERANCE 



Saloons and Taxes 



Ohio in the Saloon Fight 



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GREAT OPPORTUNJTES IN THE WEST. 



Many Eastern people labor under the misapprehension that 

 the great West is pretty well filled up, and, consequently, 

 golden opportunities are no more, and conditions are very little 

 if any better than where they are. No greater fallacy could be 

 entertained. For example, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul Railway, which is now advertising in these pages, is lay- 

 ing rails at the rate of two miles a day through a virgin country 

 where " great empires to be " are mere babies. There are no 

 finer countries under tne sun, either as to climate or resources. 

 All they need is ,a population of plucky, intelligent, hard- 

 working thrifty people. Nature will do the rest. As to bee- 

 keeping, there are many opportunities. Last summer one 

 settlement (the Yakima Valley) produced over 100 tons of the 

 finest honey. Doubtless there are and will be many more just 

 such places. Bees seldom fail to return a crop. Frait-bloom 

 in the spring and great crops of alfalfa in summer insure cer- 

 tain returns because the summer weather is always favorable — 

 no rain to interrupt. There are also at certain times great 

 masses of wild flowers. The people are of the best possible 

 class, with fine schools and plenty of church accommodations. 

 It is an ideal country. Take the chance and go and see. 



SAVING THE HEAT. 



Everybody who has to do with house-heating by means of 

 stoves, knows that an enormous proportion of the heat generated 

 is wasted altogether by passing out at the chimney-top. Many 

 inventors have tried their hand at devising something to arrest 

 this great waste of fuel. Perhaps the best invention of this 

 kind is the radiator made by the Rochester Radiator Co. This 

 consists of a series of cross-tubes which arrest a considerable 

 amount of the heat and throw the same into the room. The 

 invention is simple and practical, easily understood and fitted 

 up. Like all good inventions it has been copied by other 

 manufacturers who make a somewhat inferior article, as is 

 usually the case with those who copy. We advise our readers 

 who want the best thing of the kind to go to the fountain head. 

 The Rochester Radiator Co. We believe they are perfectly 

 honorable and straightforward business men, anxious to give 

 complete satisfaction to all purchasers of their radiators. They 

 will do their best to furnish a radiator suitable to your heater 

 if you will carefully describe your arrangement for heating. 

 Write them. 



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