1028 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Dfc. 1 



[Established in 1873.] 



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 Dept. 



J. T. CALVERT Bus. Mgr. 



A. L. BOYDEN, Sec. 



TERMS |1.00 per annum ; two years, $1.50; three 

 years, ^.00; five years, $8.00, in advance; or two copies 

 to one address, $1.50; three copies, $2.00; five copies, 

 $3.75. The terms apply to the United States, Canada, 

 and Mexico. To all other countries 48 cents per year 

 extra for postage. 



The National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. 



Objects of The Association : 



To promote and protect the interests of its members. 

 To prevent the adulttratiou of honey. 



Annual Membership, $1.00. 



Send dues to the Treasurer. 



Officers : 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich., President. 



J. U Harris Grand Junrtion. Col.. Vice president. 



Georok VV. York, Chicago. 111., Secretary. 



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



Board of Directors: 



E. Whitcomb, Friend, Nebraska. 

 W. Z. HuTCHi.NSON, Flint, Michigan. 

 W. A. Selskr. 10 Vine St.. Phildadelphia, Pa. 

 R. C. AiKiN. I,iveland, Colorado. 

 P. H. F'lwood. Starkville N. Y. 

 E. R. Root. Medina, Oliio. 

 Udo Toeppkrwein, San Antonio. Texas. 

 G. M. Doolittle Borodino, N. Y. 

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

 J. M HAMBAUfiH, Escondido, Cal. 

 C. \. Hatch. Richland Center. Wis. 

 C. C. Miller, Marengo, Illinois. 



Attention is cilled toG. M. Doolitlle's advertisement 

 in Wants and Exchange department, offering to sell 

 his homestead, b es bc'-cell^r, and queen-rtaring 

 busiii- ss Mr. D has a fine location, a large queen 

 business, and any one wi.'^hing a good home and a 

 queen-tiade aire idy built up. will do well to put him- 

 self in conespondence wi' h him. The buildings and 

 all the equipnici'ts are in e.xcellent condition. It is a 

 beaut ful coiintiy .-ite, between two lakes, and nicely 

 situated for the queen-rearing trade. Overwork and 

 other interests require him to dispose of a part of his 

 business. 



EARLY-ORDER DISCOUNT. 



With this date the discount for early cash orders is 

 reducfd to four per ceiil for December. Wc are much 

 gratified by the way old cu-tomers have been sending 

 in their orders and taking advantage of the cash di.s- 



count for so f'oing. We have shipped so far more than 

 thirty carloads to dealers on next season's bu,siness, as 

 well as a great manv smaller orders. We have orders 

 booked for j<bout fiftet n cars more. With the .--tart we 

 are getting in shipping out goods eaily we ought "by 

 .•spring to be in position to fill orders more piomptly 

 than last season We have a much larger supply of 

 lumber, wax, and other material-!, and are turning'out 

 sections at the rate of two million a month. The pros- 

 pects, so far as they may be estimated at this time, are 

 very promising for a larger trade the coming season 

 than during the past. 



catalog for 1904. 

 We confidently expected to have our catalog for the 

 coming year completed a month or more ago ; but one 

 thing and another have conspired to delay it. We are 

 glad to .'■ay that, as soon as this issue is off the press, 

 we expect to furnish up about 50.000 catalogs which 

 are now parlU printed, and we will marl them out to 

 our customers as soon as thev are finished. Last sea- 

 son we did not mail anv befo e January, so we are a 

 month ahead of last year, as it is. If you get tired 

 waiting for a new catalog, send in a reqiust. which 

 will be p'omptly met. We will get around to our en- 

 lire list of nearly 200.000 names as fast as po.'isible : but 

 it will take about three months to do it with our pres- 

 ent facilities. 



hotbed sash. 

 We are p''epared to =upply promp'lv cvpress sash 3 

 ft. 'ly, in by ft., at 80 cts. each. ii3 75 for 5 ; 10, H 00. 

 Bas are 1(4 inches thick; outside birs, 2'-^ inches in 

 width. We hrive also a supply of pine sash. 3 It. 4 in's 

 by (i ft,, with outside birs 3^4 in. wide at same price. 



SOAP that Will khmove proptlis. 



(What W. Z Hiitchin'^on says.) 



" Lava soap will remove propolis from the fingers. 

 Mr. Chalon >-owl.«i told me this when I vi-ited him re- 

 cenlly. He had difficnltv in findi"g the soap in the 

 s'ores ; and when hi-; grocer finally •■ecri-ed a supply, 

 Mr. Fowls bought a whole box that he might not 

 again be without it He gave me a cake t'i take home, 

 and the boys who work in the pr ntiiig-office gave it a 

 tna , and are enthusiastic over it. It is the first thing 

 they had tried that would cornpletel> rf m ve the ink- 

 sa ns from iheir fingers. Then I tried wh' n my fin- 

 ger-i wei e all stain' d up with pyro in rlevelopirg pho- 

 tographic legatives. an 1 the stains di-appeared as by 

 magic. Here ofore I have b-en compelled to go round 

 for several da' s with my fingers stai"ed — go until it 

 finally wore off It is particul.irly adapted to rhe use 

 of any one handling greasy, inky, or sticky sub- 

 stances. E' e-^y bee-kee er Vnow.s what a comfort it 

 would be lo have his fingers cb aned of t he sticky pro- 

 polis after his ■ ay's woik is done, and Mr. Fowls says 

 thU it will do this. I think it would be a >;Ood thing 

 if some dealer, like the Koots, for instance, would han- 

 dle this soip. then bee-keepe's. when ordering tlifir 

 supplies, could order a few cakes of this soap. I will 

 add that, while the srap is such an excellent reso'vent 

 of sticky, greasy substances, it is perfectly harmless to 

 the skin " 



We are now prepared to furnish this soap at 10 cents 

 per cake : box of 12 c-nkes, $1 00 ; 100 cakes in wooden 

 box, ^00. Potage. if wanted by mail, 8 cents ex.ra. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE VETERANS IN BEE CULTURE. 



After I had fini hed mv tilk at the Los Angeles con- 

 ven ion I noticed that I had * ntir-eh over"o(jked Adam 

 Grimm and the gr at lift he gave to the bee i- ef p'ng 

 industry ; and worse still, I neg'ected a recognition of 

 what the D^dants have done since away back when 

 our bee journil- v.'e'^e first started. I fell the more re- 

 gret because friend Dadant was with us, and h- Iped 

 very materially to make the convention as well as our 

 outings pleasant and profitable occasions. 



THE FREIGHT DEPARTM HNT OF THE PERE MARQUETTE 

 RAILWAY. 



When there is so much trouble about freight ship- 

 ments being del.iyed ; overcharges lo^s of goods, etc., 

 over the average railways of the United St ties it is 

 certainlv encouraging — at least it is >-o to me— to find 

 one great railway svslem that not only carries goods 

 with promptness, but whose charges are almost al- 



