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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Best dozen jars of light-amber ex- 

 tracted honey 2 00 1 50 50 



Best and largest display of extracted 



honey 8 00 5 00 3 00 



Best display of extracted honey in 



g-ranulated form 3 00 2 00 1 00 



Best 10 lbs. of yellow beeswax 2 00 1 00 50 



Best and largest display of beeswax . 5 00 3 00 2 00 

 Best display of special designs in 



beeswax 3 00 2 00 1 00 



Best display honey-producing plants, 



mounted 3 00 2 00 1 00 



Best display of fruits preserved in 



honey 3 00 2 00 1 00 



Most instructive display of apiarian 



products and of the various uses 



made of honey and beeswax 20 00 10 00 5 00 



Frank Rauchfuss, Denver Superintendent. 



J. A. Green, Grand Junction Ass't Superintendent. 



very nicest kind of fish-bait, and I should be 

 glad to hear from our subscribers who may 

 know of its value for this purpose. 



Our neighbor, Mr. Vernon Burt, of Mal- 

 let Creek, 0., is such an adept in producing 

 fancy and No. 1 honey that his customers 

 come right to his own yard, paying his own 

 price for it. They know his honey, and are 

 willing to go after it, and they won't get it 

 unless they do. What Mr. Burt has done, 

 others may do. A word to the wise is suffi- 

 cient. 



Be sure you know your commission man 

 before you ship a large amount of honey to 

 him. Those who quote in our columns, we 

 believe to be responsible and honest. Look 

 out for the man who offers you a price 

 above the general average. There is liable 

 to be something wrong. While it is always 

 better to make a cash sale, be sure you get 

 the cash or its equivalent from a stranger 

 before you let your own good honey get out 

 of your hands. 



DRONE BROOD FOR FISH-BAIT. 



Mr. a. J. Halter, of Akron, 0., visited 

 us recently, and during the course of our 

 conversation stated that he was supplying 

 drone brood for fish-bait. Akron is sur- 

 rounded by a belt of lakes, and angling is 

 quite a sport there. Many of these knights 

 of the rod have been coming to Mr. Halter 

 for drone brood. They specify the age of it 

 shall be just before hatching, when the 

 young drones are white. A young white 

 drone is removed from the cell and strung 

 on the hook. Its color and shape at once 

 suggest to the fish a big fat grub, and 

 anglers say that fish will bite this bait as 

 they will bite almost nothing else. It is 

 especially adapted to all fish with large 

 mouths like bass, blue-gills, and the like. 

 As we are now in the midst of the outing 

 season, bee-keepers and their friends can 

 test this matter. It seems to me I have 

 heard before that drone brood made the 



WHAT FRAME SHALL WE USE? 



Some little discussion has been started re- 

 garding the merits of the Hoffman frame. 

 The columns of Gleanings are open to any 

 fair article, either pro or con. But do not 

 get the idea that there is any more money 

 in making Hoffman frames than the old- 

 fashioned Langstroth. The basis of profit 

 is practically the same in all styles of 

 frames. The manufacturers, I take it, are 

 not wedded to any particular frame, but, of 

 course, will sell and recommend whatever 

 there is the most demand for. The A. I. 

 Root Co., for example, catalog four dis- 

 tinct types of frames: Closed-end; partly 

 closed-end (Hoffman); open-end thick-top; 

 and, last of all, the old-style Langstroth 

 with top-bar i inch wide and § thick. Al- 

 though this last is altogether the cheapest, 

 the demand for it with us is very light; yet 

 some think this is the frame I should recom- 

 mend to beginners. If I could feel that this 

 were really the best frame I certainly would 

 do so; but I honestly think it is the poorest 

 by a long way. But that does not establish 

 the fact that I am right, or the other fel- 

 low. We may both be right for our sepa- 

 rate localities. 



A COUPLE OF NOTED OHIO BEE-KEEPERS IN- 

 TERVIEWED. 



I HAVE just made an automobile tour of 

 175 miles, visiting a couple of noted bee- 

 keepers in the northern part of our State. 

 These were none other than H. R. Board- 

 man, of East Townsend, and H. G. Quirin, 

 of Parkertown. I believe the former to be 

 the best-posted man on indoor wintering of 

 perhaps any man in the United States. I 

 interviewed him long and hard away up in 

 the night, and a good part of the next day. 

 This interview I hope to give to our readers 

 some time in September, when the subject 

 of wintering will be up for consideration. 



As to Mr. Quirin, while he may not be the 

 leading expert on queen-rearing, he is cer- 

 tainly one of them— at least one who makes 

 money out of bees. And this leads me to 

 say that the item on p. 763, may possibly leave 

 the impression that he furnished the reporter 

 with the exaggerated estimate as lo his in- 

 come as there given. He simply gave him 

 the number of queens he reared, and his ex- 

 pected honey crop, and the reporter figured 

 out the values and profits. Mr. Quirin 

 frankly said he was not making any such 

 money as the item stated. Well, I will give 

 the real facts later. 



THE AMOUNT OF HONEY ANNUALLY USED 

 FOR MAKING BAKED FOODS. 



I HAVE just learned that the National Bis- 

 cuit Co. has recently purchased on one con- 

 signment seventy carloads of honey. Prob- 

 ably the great bulk of this was medium or 



