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passed, a year ago, there were no funds 

 available for direct apiary-inspection work. 

 The Ohio insj^ectors are now out in the 

 field, and are doing good work. Ikit don't 

 be inii)atient if they do not call in your lo- 

 cality at once. They may not come any 

 way unless a request is made. Write to 

 Chief Foul-brood Inspector N. E. Shaw, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Columbus, Ohio. 



Producing a Fancy Article of Extracted 

 Honey. 

 Expansion and Contraction. 

 Conveniences. 

 The price of the book is 50 cts. postpaid. 



bee - keeping by twentieth - century 



methods; or, j. e. hand's method 

 of controlling swarms. 



Mr. Hand's new fifty-cent book has just 

 come from the Gleanings press. While it 

 was written specifically to describe the J. E. 

 Hand method of controlling swarm-s by 

 means of his new patented switch-lever bot- 

 tom-board, the book contains a great deal 

 of other valuable matter. The author shows 

 not only how to control swarming, but how 

 to treat foul brood without shaking. This 

 he accomplishes by shifting the flight of 

 bees from an infected hive into a clean new 

 one with frames of foundation. All the 

 brood can be saved, and every bee. There 

 is no shaking nor brushing; no interrup- 

 tion, no stings, and no confusion; and, aft- 

 er the bees are all shifted and the brood 

 hatched, the combs can be melted up. 



Mr. Hand has been for many years a suc- 

 cessful bee-keeper; in fact, he is one of the 

 very few surviving pioneers of the olden 

 days, and yet he belongs to the new gener- 

 ation that'is ever seeking the new and the 

 useful. 



In order to get this book introduced we 

 will offer it to new subscribers, or for renew- 

 als accompanied by $1.00, providing the 

 same is received before the subscription ex- 

 pires; that is to say, we will furnish Glean- 

 ings one year and the new book, "Twen- 

 tieth-centiiry Methods," both for $1.00. In 

 ease one has allowed his journal to get in 

 arrears he may take advantage of this offer 

 by sending $1.00, plus enough more money 

 to cover the extra time for which the jour- 

 nal has run. 



As we have published only a limited edi- 

 tion, those who desire to take advantage of 

 this offer should do so at once. 



The following is a list of subjects discussed 

 by Mr. Hand: 



Higher Prices for Honey vs. Economical 

 Methods of Production —"a Common-sense 

 View of the Matter. 



Swarming. 



The Equipment. 



The Dual-hive System; or, the Perfect 

 Control of Bees. 



Increasing Colonies. 



Swarm Prevention by Requeening. 



The Hive to Adopt. 



Requeening. 



American Foul Brood. 



Wintering Bees. 



Out-apiaries. 



Feeding and Feeders. 



Section Honey. 



Bulk Comb Honey. 



LATEST honey-crop REPORTS REVISED BY 

 WIRE. 



In order to get the very latest information 

 possible from all sections of the United 

 States, we have asked our men in the field, 

 where located at a distance, to send us night- 

 letter telegrams, stating the amount of hon- 

 ey secured, and the probable prices that will 

 be asked. Those near by have responded 

 by letter. These reports will be found on 

 page 4 of the advertising section of this 

 issue — just following the Honey Column. 



As a general summary, the reports show 

 that Texas will not have as large a crop as 

 was first predicted. California, taking in 

 the whole State, will do considerably better 

 than the first advices seemed to indicate. 

 Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and all that sec- 

 tion of the clover belt, have been hit hard 

 by the drouth, and there will not be much 

 clover honey from those States. Recent 

 rains through the central States have im- 

 proved conditions in Michigan, Ohio, West- 

 ern Pennsylvania, and New York; and it 

 begins to look now as if Michigan and New 

 York might have some white-clover honey 

 as well as basswood. Wisconsin will not 

 have much clover, but probably sonie bass- 

 wood. Illinois and Indiana seem to have 

 been struck by the same drouth that blight- 

 ed the clover in Missouri and Iowa, and re- 

 ports do not look good from these States. 

 There will be a fair to light clover-flow in 

 Northern Ohio, in Central New York, and 

 Central and Western Pennsylvania. East- 

 ern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New 

 .lersey, Delaware, and Virginia, have also 

 been hit by a drouth, and the crop will be 

 light if not a failure. \'ermont and Maine, 

 as well as Canada, at the present writing, 

 give promise of a flow of clover honey. 



It very often happens, when drouth has 

 cut the clover short, especially if that drouth 

 has been jireceded by heavy rains, that bass- 

 wood will yield cojiiously. The prospects 

 from this source this season are better than 

 for many years past. While, unfortunate- 

 ly, the great bulk of the basswoods have 

 been cut for timber, there is enough left, 

 especially when we count young trees, to 

 help piece out the short crop of clover. To 

 our notion, there is nothing better than clo- 

 ver and basswood mixed. 



The telegraphic reports, as given ori page 

 4 of the advertising section of this issue, are 

 mainly from dealers in bee-keepers' supplies 

 who have excellent opportunity to judge of 

 crop conditions in their respective -localities. 

 Their rejiorts, supplemented by the reports 

 of others who have volunteered information, 

 will be very valuable. In the meantime, 

 we desire our subscribers to continue send- 

 ing in reports, as we wish to give the very 

 latest respecting croj) conditions in the 

 United States. 



