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Vol. XXXiV. 



JAN. I. 1906. 



No. I 



Thanks, Dr. Phillips, for facta about the 

 Breeders' Association, p. 1303— been longing 

 for something of that kind. Here go my 

 two dollars to Washington. 



Just why does J. A. Green want to ex- 

 tract from a foul-broody hive first, p. 1299? 

 If to avoid getting foul combs in clean colo- 

 nies, one would think the foul combs should 

 be extracted last; but there may be some 

 other reason. 



If land agents in any part of the coun- 

 try complain that they can not get free ad- 

 vertising in Gleanings, it will hardly be 

 those Texas fellows— unless they're very 

 unreasonable. [You will not forget that 

 Texas is the largest State in the Union. It 

 has immense areas, as yet with scarcely any 

 settlers on them. It is these unoccupied 

 fields that bee-keepers should go to rather 

 than squat down in s'ome territory already 

 overstocked with bees. — Ed. ] 



Never did I feel better satisfied with the 

 time of cellaring my bees than this year. 

 They had frequent flights till Nov. 28, and 

 on that day it was 62 degrees, and they flew 

 from 8 A.M. till after 3 P.M. Next morning 

 it was 22 degrees, with a little snow, and 

 they w^ere hustled in. There has been one 

 day since when it was warm enough for bees 

 to fly; and if I had known that in advance, 

 tlie bees would have been left out for it. 

 But if they had been left out, and then the 

 flight day hadn't come, they would have 

 suffered for it. If it were to do over again 

 I would not do any thing different. Take 

 bees in the next day after their last flight, 

 but don't take too many chances on a flight 

 day that may never come. I'd rather take 

 them in ten days before the last flight day 

 than two days after. 



Are you not a little prem.ature in your 

 conclusions about cellaring bees early or 

 late, Mr. Editor, page 1302 ? Your two lots 

 were taken in three weeks apart, the sec- 

 ond lot having the benefit of a second flight, 

 that fl.ight, I suppose, being just before cel- 

 laring. That three weeks used up more 

 bees and more stores out than in Why 

 shouldn't it? But wait till next spring be- 

 fore you conclude that there was any ' ' fol- 

 ly " about the three weeks' delay. The 

 three weeks of greater cold cost more bees 

 and stores outside, while the three weeks' 

 confinement cost nothing inside. The con- 

 finement costs nothing; but the last three 

 costs, and costs heavily, if it follows a con- 

 finement of four or five months, and it may 

 turn out that more will be lost by the extra 

 confinement than was saved by the earlier 

 cellaring. [We have our colonies all mark- 

 ed in the cellar, and, according to your 

 suggestion, we will note their comparative 

 conditions when taking out next spring. — 

 Ed.] 



Rev. Charles Scanlon's speech pleased 

 A. I. Root. p. 1333. I understand Mr. Scan- 

 Ion is set aside by his denomination to spend 

 his entire time working against the liquor 

 business — the only man in the country occu- 

 pying that unique position that I know of, 

 although you may possibly tell us of others, 

 Mr. Editor. If each denomination were to 

 pick out its best men for that work, there 

 would be fewer pastors dumb on the sub- 

 ject. [I do not know of another case where 

 a denomination is putting one of its own 

 ministers in the field devoting his whole 

 time to the subject of temperance. But I 

 do know that there are many ministers now 

 employed by the Anti- saloon League in the 

 various States of the Union who devote 

 their entire time to fighting the liquor evil; 

 and, by the way, as I personally know, 

 some of these men during the time the leg- 

 islature is in session sometimes spend fif- 

 teen or twenty hours in solid work a day, all 

 because the harvest is great and the labor- 

 ers are few But, thanks to the Lord, there 

 are tenfold more laborers in this special 

 field now than there were a few years ago. 

 -Ed ] 



