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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



MayI 



Bee-keepers* Directory. 



Bee-keepers' Supply Co., Lincoln, Neb. We boy cat lots ol 

 Root's eoods. Save freight. Write. 



Italian queens from direct imported mothers, red-clover strain, 

 $1.00. Circular. A. W. Yates, 3 Chapman St., Hartford, Ct. 



Italian Bees, queens, honey, and Root's bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies. Aliso Apiary, El Tore, Cal. 



Golden yellow Italian queens my specialty, 1909 price list 

 ready. Safe introducing directions. E. E. Lawrence, 



Doniphan, Mo. 



Carniolan, Banat, and Caucasian queens. Order from 

 original importer, Frank Benton, box 17, Washington, D. C. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 



J. H. M. Cook, 70 Cortlandt St., New York City. 



For bee-smoker and honey-knife circular send card to 



T. F. Bingham, Farwell, Mich. 



Golden and red-clover Italian queens. See my other adv't in 

 this issue. Wm. A. Shuff, 4426 Osage Ave., Philadelphia. 



For your address on a postal card I will send you valuable in- 

 formation pertaining to queen culture.- Write to-day. 



J. E. Hand, Birmingham, O. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for business, 

 June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 cts.; select, $1.00; test- 

 ed, $1.25 each. Safe anival and satisfaction guaranteed. 



H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens ready in April; nu- 

 clei and colonies about May 1. My stock is northern bred, and 

 hardy. Five yards wintered on summer stands without a single 

 loss in 1908; 22 years a breeder. For prices see large ad. in this 

 issue. Quirin-the-Queen-brkeder, Bellevne, O. 



SOUVENIR POST CARDS 



FOR BEE-KEEPERS 



Twenty beautiful souvenir cards, illustrating the State Flowers 

 of twenty States; on space reserved for correspondence is a well- 

 tried honey-cooking recipe and our name. There are twenty 

 different recipes. They will make a nice present to any lady. 

 Send us 30 cents in stamps and we will mail you a set of cards. 



The Colorado Honey Producers' Ass'n, Denver, Colo. 



Western bee-keepers should have our 50-page 

 Illustrated Catalog of Bee-supplies. It is Free. 



Queens that'll Convince You 



that my famous stock is superior to all. Untested, 



50 cts. each; select untested, 75 cts. each; tested, 



$1.00; nuclei, $1.00 per frame without queen. 



H. A. ROSS, 1709 Upper Second Street, Evansville, Indiana 



Among all our American books 

 on bees this is the one most 

 highly recommended for be- 

 ginners in bee-keeping. It was 

 written by a 

 gifted bee- 

 keeper lor am- 

 ateurs. It is 

 all its name 

 implies. Price 

 $1.10 postpaid. 

 1. ROOT COMPANY, MEDINA, OHIO 



How to 

 Keep Bees 



By Anna Bolsford Comstock 



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SPECIAL NOTICES BY A. I. ROOT. 



THE WRIGHT BROTHERS I'P TO DATE. 



We clip the following from the Cleveland Plain Dtaltr of 

 April 27: 



Rome, .*prll 26.— Wilbur Wriffbt made a series of successful 

 flights here to-day, maklnj; the starts without the aid of a der- 

 rick or rail. The aeroplane was propolled over the grass by 

 Its own power, momentvim i^radually IncreaslnK. until at the 

 end of 150 yards the machine left the jjroiiiid and sailed into 

 the air. 



IJUPFY'S MALT WHISKY. 

 If you can get hold of a copy of the National Prohibitionist for 

 April 22, I hope you will read what is said about Duffy's whisky. 

 We have been informed several times that they had been call- 

 ed to a halt, and required to pay a license for selling their whis- 

 ky, like any other liquor-dealers. Collier's Weekly his been turn- 

 ing its guns on them, and perhaps a few other periodicals have 

 done so; but if the facts are as stated it is a burning shame, not 

 only that our government should let such work go on, but 'that 

 the daily pipers, at least a great part of them, should continue to 

 receive and publish their advertising. 



THE EGG trade OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The above is the title of a most valuable bulletin sent out by 

 the Department of Agriculture. Every one interested in poultry, 

 and especially in the egg business, needs this bulletin particu- 

 larly. The matter of " candling " eggs and sorting them is 

 treated most fully; and this whole idea of 'being able to distin- 

 guish fertile from unfertile eggs as soon as they are laid is most 

 emphatically denied. An expert with a thin-shelled white egg 

 might be able to detect evidences of fertility after the egg has 

 been subjected to a temperature of 103° for 48 hours. But there 

 is no possibility of deciding this matter in any other way. I 

 quote from it as follows: 



To save the millions of dollars that are carried down our 

 sewers in the shape of bad eggs, we must have, first, a cam- 

 paign of education among egg-producers that will show every 

 farmer's wife that when eggs are allowed to remain in damp 

 nests, under broody hens, or in hot kitchens, there is a loss in 

 quality which means an actual loss in money to herself and to 

 her neighbors; and, secondly, a system of buying eggs that 

 will as nearly as possible recompense every producer who sells 

 eggs exactly in accordance with what those eggs are worth. 

 Above all else, the infallible rule concerning the marketing of 

 eggs is for the farmer to sell his eggs as soon as possible after 

 they are laid. 



So far as 1 can discover, this bulletin will be furnished by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, free of charge; but 

 it will certainly pay you to have it, even should it cost a few 

 cents to get it. May God be praised that the Department of Ag- 

 riculture has seen fit to give us the exact trath in regard to this 

 whole matter of good eggs and bad eggs. Not only thousands of 

 dollars, but perhaps millions, might be saved by a better under- 

 standing, and more care, on the part of those who furnish eggs 

 for the market. 



"THE BEST AND CHEAPEST LIGHT." 



For some time past (it may be two or three years) I have 

 glanced at an advertisement in our own and other journals, and 

 wondered if it could be really true that modern inventions had 

 got so far as to offer " 100-candle-power " light for the ridiculous- 

 ly low cost of only " two cents a week." 1 made some inqui- 

 ries, and was assured it was all true, and the matter was dropped 

 until 1 happened to be in Canton, O., one day at a balloon as- 

 cension. 



" What great manufacturing plant is that over there V I in- 

 quired of a passerby. 



" Why, that is the big Canton lamp-factory — the biggest, they 

 say, in the world." 



I hadn't time then to take a look at it; but on my way home I 

 decided I would give their great invention a test in our Florida 

 home. You see, here in Medina we have our own electric 

 plant, with equipped houses, etc. Well, reader, 1 am now writ- 

 ing this in the full blaze of the great light. I brought down 

 here a cheap lamp, and I think it was about two weeks before 1 

 took it out of the trunk and read the directions. Presto! It not 

 only lighted our largest room, but the brilliant reflection enabled 

 us to see in all the rooms, even upstairs, and it really seemed as 

 if the dazzling light in some way got through the floors. The 

 neighbors also were surprised to see such beams going out of 

 eveiy window and lighting up the highway. Three of our near- 

 est neighbors asked me to get them a lamp; and it costs so very 

 little to mn it that 1 have bought another for our front porch to 

 aid the traveler on dark nights. Our gasoline down here, which 

 we buy by the dmm (for our automobile), costs us 11^ cents per 

 gallon; and the 1/^ pints, which our' lamp holds, rans the lamp 

 with this tremendous blaze (about as white as daylight) iot four- 

 teen hours. In the summer time, hard-working people do not or- 

 dinarily care for lamplight more than about two hours each eve- 

 ning; and even Mrs. Root is obliged to admit that the advertised 

 statement of " two rents a week " is not very far out of the way. 

 The trouble of caring for the lamp is even less than with kero- 

 sene, for there is no wick and no smoky chimney to be cleaned 

 every day. May God be praised for what modern science has 

 done in permitting us to " let our light shine " at such an insig- 

 nificant expense to whoever may need it. As my eyes begin to 

 fail I greatly enjoy this beautiful light that comes so near "turn- 

 ing night into day." It reminds me again and again of the 

 words, "And God said. Let there be light; and there was light. 

 And God saw the light, that it was good. 



