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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 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, " Stbnog," Louis H. Scholl, 

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



CONTENTS OF DECEMBER 15, 1908 



STRAY STRAWS 1487 



EDITORIAL 148S 



Wintering in a Warm Building 1489 



Hawaii, Bees to 1490 



SIFTINGS ^'•^1 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 1492 



Wintering in a Cellar 1492 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUHWEST 1493 



Fall Robbing Dangerous 1493 



Honey-cases, Plea for Better 1493 



Honey Removed in an Hour 1493 



Spring Moving of Bees 1494 



GLEANINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES 1494 



Saccharine Injurious to Health 1494 



Death of Leon de Bruyn 1494 



Bee as Subject for Nature Study 1495 



Pollen on Bees' Legs 1496 



Coggshall, W. L 1499 



Alexander, Last Days of 1504 



Bee-keeping in California 1505 



Travel-stain 1506 



Tent for Chickens 1508 



Swarm-catchers 1509 



Bee-keeping for Pleasure 1510 



Uncapping-knives 1511 



HEADS OF GRAIN 1511 



Brood, Cause of Strange Death 1511 



Drouth and Clover 1512 



Clover, Damage to by Drouth 1512 



Queen, Dented 1512 



Paper Over Hives Preventing Moisture 1512 



Bees in China 1512 



Dampness in Mexico, Excessive 1512 



Beuhne Plan of Introducing 1513 



Were the Bees Diseased 1513 



Query as to Inbreeding of Bees 1513 



Supers on Hives in Winter 1513 



OUR HOMES 1513 



Shoes, Comfortable 1514 



Coward Shoe 1514 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 1516 



Poultry-tent at Stons 1516 



TEMPERANCE 1518 



Christmas Present of Whisky 1518 



HEALTH NOTES 1518 



Special Notices 1532 



THE 1900 WASHER. 



Nothing could better illustrate the very great change which 

 has occurred in tbe methods of doing business than the adver- 

 tisement of the "1900 washer," placed on another page of this 

 journal. A few years ago no business man would have dared 

 to make such an offer as this company now makes to the read- 

 ers of Gleanings. They actually let a responsible prospec- 

 tive buyer have the use of the machine four weeks without the 

 payment of a single cent in cash or its equivalent. This 

 would not seem very extraordinary if the would-be buyer were 

 well known to them; but to extend such an offer to entire 

 strangers is certainly wonderful. Their faith is founded on a 

 well-known fact that people everywhere will strive to pay for 

 an article that has merit and is wonh the price asked. The 

 fact, also, that the seller has faith in the buyer's fairness also 

 goes' a long way with most of us. The whole transaction is 

 founded in a remarkable faith in the common people of this 

 country, and ought to receive the encouragement it truly de- 

 serves. If you are in want of a washing-machine, or likely to 

 require one soon, we hope you will take advantage of this 

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