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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 15 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



[Established in 1S73.] 



Devoted to Bees, Honey, and Home Interests. 



Published Semi-monthly by 



The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



A I. ROOT, Editor of Home and Gardening Dep'ts. 



E. R. ROOT, Editor of Apicultural Dep't. 



J. T. CAIvVERT, Bus. Mgr. 



A. L,. BOYDEN, Sec. 



F. J. ROOT, Eastern Advertising Representative, 



90 West Broadway, New York City. 



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 ani will pay for it soon. Any one who does not like 

 this plan may have his journal stopped after the time 

 paid for by making his request when ordering. 



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The National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. 



Objects of The Association. 



To promote and protect the interests of its members. 

 To prevent the adulteration of honty. 



Annual Membership, $1.00. 



Send dues to the Treasurer. 



Officers: 



J. U. Harris, Grand Junction, Col , President. 



C. P. Dadant, Hamil.on, 111 , Vice-president. 



Geo. W. Brcdbeck, Los Angeles. Cal., Secretary. 



N. E. France, Platteville, Wis., Gen. Mgr. and Treas. 



Board of Directors : 



E. Whitcomb, Friend, Nebraska. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Michigan. 

 W. A. Selser, 10 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 R. C. AiKiN, I^oveland, Colorado. 

 P. H. Elwood, Starkville, N. Y. 

 Udo Toepperwein, San Antonio, Texas. 

 G. M. DooLiTTLE, Borodino, N Y. 

 W. F. Marks, Chapinville, N. Y. 

 J. M. Hamraugh, Escondido, Cal. 

 C. A. Hatch, Richland Center, Wis. 

 C. C. M1LI.ER, Marengo, Illinois. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



The Michigan State Beekeepers' Association will 

 hold its annual convention Thuisday and Friday, Feb. 

 25 and 26, at the Agricultural College. The Michigan 

 State Dairymen's convention will meet at the same 

 place, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and the 

 round-up institute of the farmers' ins itutes will be 

 held at the same place from Feb 23 to 2t). One session 

 of the dairymen's convention will be a joint session 

 with the inst'tu'e, and one sess on of the bee-keepers' 

 convention will be a joint session with the institute. 

 There will be half fare on all Michigan railroads. 

 Dinner and 'upper can be secured at the College; but 

 visitors will have to go to Lansing for breakfast and 

 lodging. There is an electric line that takes passen- 

 gers from the College to Lansing for five cents. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, 



Our Advertisers and Advertising. 



We have just received a 136- page catalog of the Ohio 

 Carriage Mfg Co , 3120 Sixth St,, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 This is one of the mo.'-t complete catalogs we have ex- 

 amined ; and any one expecting to order a buggy or 

 harness will do well to get it. If you mention Glhan- 

 INGS IN Bfe Culture when you request the catalog, 

 they will also send you a booklet entitled "G )Od Bug- 

 gies and How They are Made," which contains much 

 valuable information. A.>-k for both catalog and book- 

 let so that there will be no misunderstanding. 



a FARMERS" telephone COMPANY. 



Our readers are requested to give special attention 

 to the advertisement of the Stromberg Cailston Tele- 

 phone Co., on page 196 of this issue, and we suggest 

 that you send for their book which tells how to oigan- 

 ize a farmers' telephone company, and all about tele- 

 phone matters in general. They also nave another 

 book, F 36. "Telephone Facts," which is sent fiee on 

 request if your mention this paper. We know of a co- 

 operative farmers' te ephone comnany in operation in 

 Michigan for the last two or three jears, which has 

 been a great convenience, and the expense has not 

 been more than one fourth the rates charged by the 

 regular telephone lines. 



IRON AGE CATALOG. 



We received, a few days ago, a copy of the 1904 edi- 

 tion of the "Iron Age " catalog, illustrating and de- 

 scribing the "Iron Age" farm and garden implements 

 as manufactured by Bateman Mfg Co., Box 120. Gr'jn- 

 loch. N. J. They set forth in their catalog a most 

 complete line of double and single wheel hoes, seed 

 and fertilizer drills. From the description, and u,'-e of 

 both wood and half-tone cuts thej- are most fully de- 

 scribed, and by reason of the up to date design of 

 these implements, together with the numerou-^ at- 

 tachments applicable to them, there seems little 

 chance for inip'ovement in goods of this charjicter. 



They also fully illustrate and describe a complete 

 line of horse hoes and cultivators; among them are 

 some nevr st\ le tools which have j st been patented. 



It may be of intertst to our readers to know that, in 

 the manufacture of this luie of goods, this company 

 is a pioneer, having originally made the old wood- 

 frame cultivator, and was the first to place on the 

 market an iron-frame cultivator. 



In the catalog they illustrate and describe the 

 most ct mplele line of riding cultivators rnanufacturt d 

 by any one company, and we venture to say from the 

 description given, that they employ the most up to- 

 date and valuable methods in the constiuctioii of 

 them, manufacturing riding cultivators for level .>-ur- 

 face hill-sides sandy or stony soil, and for the culti- 

 vation of not only corn and potatoes, but for almost 

 every variety of plant grown in rows, 



Thtse people manufacture the famous Improved 

 Robbins potatop'anter which has been .sold in such 

 large quantities and given such tiniversal .•■a isfac ion 

 here in Ohio: and to >;ive an idea of its great efficiency 

 and high merit, we quote the words of Dr, W. I, Cham- 

 berlain: "It is hand-dropping, spactd with uuerringac- 

 cuiacy by machinery." 



Besides the tools mentioned above, they also manu- 

 facture two horse walking cultivators, sugar- reet 

 tools, special tools for trucking, market gardening, 

 etc. 



None of our readers interested in agriculture should 

 be without a copy of this catalog, which is sent free 

 on application. 



