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Bee-keepers' Directory 



Nutmeg Italian queens, after June 1, 11.00. Circu- 

 lar. A. W. Yates, 3 Chapman St., Hartford, Ct. 



Bees, Queens, supplies, and export; free school. 

 W. C. Morris, 74 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

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



For bee-smoker and honey-knife circular send a 

 card to T. F. Bingham, Alma. Mich. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1912; 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list to E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 cts.; 

 select, SI. 00; tested, 81.25 each. Safe arrival and sat- 

 isfaction guaranteed. H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



QuiRiN's famous Improved Italian queens, nu- 

 clei, colonies, and bees by the pound, ready in May. 

 Our stock is northern-bred and hardy; five yards 

 wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 with- 

 out a single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



QUIRIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER, BellCVUe. O. 



■NGRAVINGS /or "GLEANINGS 



' "5?^ GRAY PRINTING CO., Fostoria, 0. 



Convention Notices, 



I give you herewith the preliminary announce- 

 ments of the annual conventions of the nursery- 

 men, fruitgrowers, and bee-keepers of this State. 



The State Horticultural Society will meet at 

 Nashville, January 25, 1912. Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, C. A. Keffer, Knoxville. 



The State Nurserymen's Association will meet at 

 Nashville, January 26. 1912. Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, C. M. Bentley, Knoxville. 



The State bee-keepers will meet at Nashville, 

 January 27, 1912. Secretary and Treasurer, J. M. 

 Buchanan, Franklin. 



C. M. Bentley, 



an OPPORTUNITY FOB OKLAHOMA BEE-KEEPERS. 



Those who are interested in bee-keeping in Okla- 

 homa are not availing themselves of all their op- 

 portunities by any means. Those engaged in stock- 

 raising, dairying, corn and cotton raising, etc., are 

 constantly seeking and receiving information and 

 advice from the Experiment Station at Stillwater, 

 Okla. 



Many who have taken up the keeping of bees dur- 

 ing the last few years have met with success, and in 

 particularly favored localities the results have fre- 

 quently been an astonishing succf-ss. As a conse- 

 quence many are being attracted to the busy bee 

 as a pleasant and profitable avocation, and many 

 are seeking information and advice. 



There are many problems that are of particular 

 importance to the bee-keepers of Oklahoma that 

 have never as yet been worked out. It seems to 

 have occurred to but few that it is within the prov- 

 ince of the Experiment Station to take up these 

 problems and work them out to a known conclu- 

 sion. 



Economical administration requires that only 

 such work be taken up at the station as there is a 

 demand for, or for which there is a necessity. There 

 have been a few colonies of bees at the station for 

 some years; but as there has been no experimenta- 

 tion authorized with them, we are none the wiser 

 for their being there. 



The relation of the honey-bee in Oklahoma to the 

 growing of alfalfa seed is a very important matter, 

 and its correct solvition may mean thousands of 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



dollars to the alfalfa-growers. Those M'ho may be 

 called pioneers in the bee industry in this State 

 have organized an association to assist in such 

 work as this, but many bee-keepers are tardy in 

 taking advantage of the opportunities ofTered. J^ 

 This association meets at Stillwater, Okla., Jan. 

 17 and 18, 1912. Come, and let the station and the 

 association know that you expect something from 

 them. 



PROGRAM OF SECOND ANNUAL MEETING, OKLAHOMA 



BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION, STILLWATER, 



OKLA., AT A. AND M. COLLEGE. 



WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JAN. 17. 



Address, illustrated with moving pictures and 

 lantern slides. Prof. C. E. Sanborn. 



THURSDAY, 9 : 00 A.M. 



President's annual address. 



Business meeting and election of officers. 

 1 : 30 P.M. 



How location and pasturage affect successful bee- 

 keeping, J. H. Burrage. 



Why we should tie to the association, Geo. H. 

 Coulson. 



The use of feeders, G. E. Lemon. 



What I think about foul brood, Arthur Rhoads. 



Cirowth of the bee industry in Oklahoma, F. W. 

 Van DeMark. 



Question-box and general discussion. 



N. Fred Gardiner. 



By Our Business Manager 



new booklet of honey RECIPES. 



Booklet No. 31 of our Bee-keepers" Ten-cent Libra- 

 ry, entitled "The Use of Honey in C'ooking," is a 

 collection of about 100 tested recipes for making 

 cakes, cookies, breads, etc., in which honey is used. 

 In many ways this is the most complete and inter- 

 esting honey-recipe book which has ever been pre- 

 pared for wide distribution. The recipes were col- 

 lected from bee-keepers and good cooks every- 

 where, and carefully tested under our personal 

 supervision during the past year. Only those that 

 have given entirely satisfactory results are includ- 

 ed in this collection. 



By way of ilUistration, "The Use of Honey in 

 Cooking" has as a front cover a reproduction of a 

 capped comb, and on the five following right-hand 

 pages, opposite descriptive reading-matter, these 

 illustrations appear in order : " The same comb 

 that we show on cover with the cappings shaved off 

 with a sharp knife, exposing the driijping honey in 

 the cells;" "The uncapped combs being lowered 

 into a honey-extractor ; " "Honey-extractor in op- 

 eration, showing how the combs are whirled rapid- 

 ly and the honey thrown out of the cells by centrif- 

 ugal force against the inside of the can : " " Draw- 

 ing qfl the honey through the gate at the bottom of 

 the extractor ;" "The comb after being taken from 

 the extractor, showing the cells are undisturbed 

 and the comb as good as new, and ready to be filled 

 again by the bees." Thus it will be seen that the 

 complete process of the making of extracted honey 

 is pictorlally explained. This is a result which has 

 long been sought, to correct the popular impres- 

 sion as to the manfacture of extracted honey iby 

 some contrary process. - — i 



Under the heading of " Food %'alue of Honey " an 

 introductory of seven or eight pages appears, with 

 a discussion of the subjects, "What is Honey?" 

 "Different Flavors of Honey;" "Why Use Honey 

 in Cooking?" "Where to Keep Honey;" "Honey 

 Recipes;"' "Caution Regarding the Use of Honey 

 in Cooking." 



The recipes are set in ten-point type of plain and 

 readable face, and the booklet is printed on paper 

 of very fine quality, with paper cover. There are 

 64 pages in all. While there will be a great demand 

 for single copies of this booklet from our readers 

 and friends throughout the world at the price of 10 

 cents per copy, we anticipate a still larger demand 

 from bee-keepers, who will appreciate the advan- 

 tage of using advertising matter of this high class 

 in their honey-selling campaigns. We have print- 

 ed copies of "The Use of Honey in Cooking" in 



