GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUR£. 



Jan. 15 



INDEX TO ADVERTISEiMENTS. 



Agricultural Imple'ts. 



Allen, 8. L., & Co 19 



Ames Plow Co 19 



Bateman Mfg. Co 19 



Aplapy fop Sale. 



Hale, J. T 29 



Banking: by Mall. 



Savines Deposit Bank 25 



Bee-suppUes. 



Blanke & Hauk 10 



Hilton, George E 11 



Howkins & Rush 7 



Hunt & Son, M. H 7 



Jenkins, J. M 3 



Jepson, H. H 13 



Leahy Mfg. Co 26 



Minnesota Bee Supply Co. . 10 



Muth, Fred W 2 



Nebel, J. & Son 13 



Nysewander. Joseph 13 



Peirce, E. W 15 



Pilcher & Palmer 15 



Pouder, Walter S 16 



Rawlings Implement Co. . . 13 



Rea Bee and Honey Co. ... 7 



Root Co., Syractise 13 



Schwill, Otto& Co 13 



Soper, W. D 29 



Suingham, I.J 2 



Texas Seed and Flo. Co. . . 7 



Tocpperwein & Mayfield... 12 



Webor, C. H. W 3 



Woodman, A. G 15 



Bee-smokers. 



Danzenbaker, F 11 



Bone-eutteps. 



Mann Co., F. W 20 



Humphrey 20 



Books. 



Dadant & Sons 29 



System Co 25 



Buggies, etc. 



Ohio Buggy Co 24 



Elkhart Carriage Co 21 



Classified Advertise's. 



Bees and Queens 28 



Bee-keepers' Directory 29 



For Sale 29 



Help Wanted 29 



Honey and Wax Wanted. .. 28 



Honey and Wax for Sale. . . 28 



Post Cards 28 



Poultry 28 



Real Estate for Bee-keepers. 28 



Situations Wanted 29 



Wants and Exchanges 28 



Comb Foundation. 



Dadant & Sons 29 



Fencing. 



Am. Steel and Wire Co 17 



Anchor Fence and Mfg. Co. 18 



Anthony Fence Co 18 



Coiled Spring Wire 18 



Kitselman Brothers 18 



Mason Fence Co 18 



Fpult Products. 



Gal. Fruit Pioducts Co. , cover. 



Furs. 



Funsten Brothers 26 



Nat'l Fur and Tanning Co. . 18 



Honey-dealers. 



Fred. W. Muth Co 2 



Hildreth & Segelken 3 



Israel, Chas. & Bros 2 



National Biscuit Co 3 



Stringhara I. J... 2 



Household Specialties. Greider, B. H.... 20 



Best Light Company 19 Larkin & Hersberg 20 



Neubert, R. F 



Incubators. 



Cyphers Inc. Co 



DesMoines Incubator Co... 



Johnson, M. M 



Miller Co., J. W 



Reliable Incubator Co 



Root Incubator Co 



Stahl, George H 



United Factories 



Wisconsin Incubator Co. . . 



Land for Sale. 



Burlington Railway....... 



Love, R. M 



Seaboard Air Line 



20 



Publications. 



American Bee Journal 10 



Bee-keepers' Review., 5 



Farm and Stock 11 



Farmer's Call 26 



Fruit Grower 11 



Guide to Nature, cover. 



Successful Farming 11 



Miscellaneous. 



Mogler Engraving Co 



Music Schools. 

 Simplex School of Music. 



Nurserymen. 

 Farmer, L. J. 



Gardner Nursery Co 



German Nurseries 



Green's Nursery Co 



Hubbard, T. S 



Kellogg Company 



Roesch, Louis 



Scarfl, E. W. N 



Sheerin's Nurseries 



Storrs & Harrison Co 



Paper. 



Hampshire Paper Co., cover 



Patents. 



Williamson, C. J 



Poultpy-supplles. 



Berry's Poultry Farm 



Railroads. 



25 Seaboard Air Line 21 



28 Seedsmen. 



21 



Berry Seed Co., A. A 22 



Burpee, W. Atlee 21 



,^ Olds Seed Co., L. L 23 



Ratekin's Seedhouse 20 



Shumway , R. H 22 



Tc Storrs & Harrison 23 



" Wallin, W. B 23 



33 Sprayers and Pumps. 



23 Deming Co 19 



23 Rochester Spray-pump Co. . 19 



22 



23 Stoves and Ranges. 



22 Kalamazoo Stove Co 24 



22 Telephones. 



22 



23 Stromberg-Carlson 24 



Tools. 



Iwan Brothers 19 



Myers, C. A., Co 26 



1' Wagons. 



Electric Wheel Co 26 



20 Empire Company 19 



GRAPEVINES FOR ALI,. 



We know that nearly all bee-keepers are interested in fruit, 

 and not a few are experts in fruit culture. They will, there- 

 fore, read wilh con:iderable interest the advertisement of The 

 T. S. Hubbard Co., who now make a special ofJer of ten good 

 two-year-old grapevines for $1.00. Grapes are very useful in 

 the dietary of many a family in America, and at the price for 

 vines we have just mentioned they might become important to 

 all who live outside our very largest cities. There is now 

 hardly any excuse for a family being without a good supply of 

 grapes every fall, when it is so easy to get a supply of vines. 

 The selection offered is of the very best, and only prolific bear- 

 ers of good fruit are included. Anybody can plant a grapevine 

 and have it grow. Try it and be convinced. 



OLD TRUSTY. 



The name of Mr. M. M. Johnson is one to conjure with in 

 the incubator-manufacturing world. He is the maker of the 

 celebrated " Old Trusty " line of incubators, and they are true 

 to name. Mr. Johnson is famous for the admirable way he 

 treats all his customers. He makes his hatching-machines of 

 California redwood, famous for its fie-resistant qualities; but 

 as a further precaution he has recently decided to cover all his 

 " Old Tt;.sties " with sheetiron, rendering' them practically 

 fireproof. In spite of these extras he sells his machines cheap. 



A NOVEL INCUBATOR. 



We publish in our advertising columns (page 27) an il- 

 lustration of a novel kind of incubator. It is quite a de- 

 parture from those now in general use, which all employ hot 

 ait to heat the eggs. The Root incubator is a wide variation 

 from this, in that the eggs are heated by direct contact with a 

 hot surfare, just as a hen warms the eggs under her. It looks 

 to us as if this would be quite an improvement on the present 

 method. It is also reasonable to suppose that the new incuba- 

 tor will be easier to manage and control than the ones now in 

 use, seeing it copies very closely after nature's plan. Doubt- 

 less there will be a large demand for the Root incubator just as 

 soon as the poultrymen generally get to know of it. Until 

 now only a few have seen it. The average breeder is fond of 

 experimentation, and here is his opportunity to exercise that 



talent, with probably good results. It would be well to write 

 for further particulars at once. 



KIND WORDS. 



My dear Mr. Root: — Away back in the 80's I used to read 

 Gleanings, when I was a boy of 13 or 14. I had about 20 

 colonies then, and was as devoted a student of the " poetry of 

 agriculture " as ever walked. I had my best queens from the 

 old " A. I. Root Co." (it was not a " Co." then), and was in- 

 terested in bees, and had them up to the time I went away to 

 colleg". I was the first in our community to secure a hundred 

 pounds of honey from a single co'ony from clover in one year. 

 That is not much now; but for a boy, and in that community, it 

 was thought so. It was in Mendon, 111., that I lived then, near 

 Quincy. 



When I wi>nt away to college I tried to keep up the apiary in 

 the intervals of vacation, but it would not work. They gradual- 

 ly winter-killed, and I had to give it up for a time. After my 

 college course of four years, and three of graduate work, in special 

 study at Yale University, I came south to this university to take 

 the chair of Latin, where I have been ever since. It was not 

 long before 1 had a home and a dear little wife, and not long, 

 either, after that, that she gave me my renewed start in bees by 

 a present of a Cornell smoker and two Italian queens. I got 

 three colonies of b'acks in box hives, and have increased to 

 over ttiirty here, and as many more in my summer home in 

 Trevose, Pa., just about ten miles beyond Jenkintown. I have 

 a $10.00 breeding queen, and am under contract to rear early 

 queens for a large breeder in the North. I succeeded in procur- 

 ing the orange honey that my good friends Mr. Selser and Mr. 

 Young, of Washington, declared to be the purest sample of 

 orange honey they had ever received. I can not keep up with 

 the demand for it. It goes " like hot cakes," both locally and 

 in Philadelphia, where I have sold the most of it. 



Nothing, I assure you, would give me greater pleasure and 

 solid satisfaction than to do two things — show to you the build- 

 ings and work of Stetson University, and, best of all, to show 

 A. I. Root to the university and university town ! I have omitted 

 the greatest pleasure of all — the chance to meet and know you 

 personally. Cordially your friend, 



Deland, Florida, Dec. 29, 1908. Edwin G. Baldwin. 



