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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E. R. Root 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors— Db. C. C. Milleb., J. A. Gbebn, Pbop. A. J. Cook, J. E. Cbank, Louis H. Scholl,. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE, R. F. HOLTBBMANN, "STENOG." 



CONTENTS OF MARCH 1, 1907 



MARKET REPORTS : 292 



STRAY STRAWS 307 



EDITORIAL 308 



Indoor Wintering at Medina 308 



Foul-brood Law for Indiana 309 



Pure-food Law, Effect of 309 



Zinc, Perforated 310 



Newspaper Canards 310 



Quotations, Honey 310 



Beeswax in the Arts 311 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 313 



.7 AY'S TALKS • 314 



Hive-tool 315 



Cages over Entrances 31.5 



Loaf Sug'ar for Winter 315 



Poul-brond, Case on 319 



Bee-tree Hunting 322 



Clustering-places, Artificial 323 



Exhibit Root's, at Columbus 325 



Eucalyptus 327 



Hetherington, Hubert 328 



Sweet Clover for Forage — . 330 



Protection for Supers 331 



Honey, Liquefying 334 



Air. Confined 335 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 338 



Mice and Honey 338 



Queen-excluders Hindering Bees 339 



Candy for Winter 340 



Chickens in Florida 341 



GLEANINGS FROM PACIFIC COAST 312 



Hive. Deep vs. Shallow 316 



Honey, Extracting 317 



Calcium Chloride to Dry Cellars 317 



Storm-doors on Hives Outdoors 321 



OQR HOMES 343 



Catalogs Received 



Four-page circular (28th annual) of Italian and 

 Caucasian bees and queens, imported and home- 

 bred, from A. D. D. Wood, Lansing, Mich. 



One of the seed catalogs that is highly valued by 

 every recipient is that of Northrup, King & Co., 

 packed from cover to cover with practical informa- 

 tion regarding all farm and garden crops. Their 

 ad. appears on another page, and. if interested, it 

 will pay you to write for their catalog- 

 Nursery stock grown in the South can not be as 

 satisfactory for the North as native-grown. The 

 Gardner Nursery Co., whose ad't appears on anoth- 

 er page, will gladly send you their catalog describ- 

 ing their " Blizzard Belt " nursery stock. 



When you buy a buggy you want to get your mon- 

 ey's worth. By the Anderton plan you receive the 

 buggy you order on a two-years' approval backed 

 by a $25,000 bond. They issue a splendid 140-page 

 catalog which will be gladly sent to Gleanings 

 readers. See Anderton Mfg. Co.'s ad't on another 

 page. 



Every farmer and gardener, whether he has a 

 Planet Jr. or not. should send for the new 1907 Plan- 

 et Jr. catalog of seeders, wheel hoes, horse-hoes, 

 riding orchard, and beet cultivators— 45 kinds in all 

 — with the new and practical improvements. A 

 postal mailed to S. L. Allen & Co.. Box 1106 S, Phil- 

 adelphia, brings this interesting book by next mail. 

 There are, in almost every line of industry in this 

 country, a few large comi>anies whose product is 

 recognized universally as superior in quality to 

 similar goods of other makes. The Elkhart Car- 

 riage & Harness Mfg. Co., of Elkhart, Indiana, in the 

 carriage industry represent one of these quality 

 manufacturers. They have, during the past 34 years 

 of their existence, built »ip the largest direct-to-the- 

 consumer carriage and harness business in the 

 world They make over 200 styles of vehicles and 

 65 styles of harness. Their large catalog, showing 

 complete line, is sent free upon request. 



BEST POULTRY BOOK. 



In response to numerous inquiries from subscrib- 

 ers for a reliable book on incubators and chicken- 

 raising, we suggest that you send for the Sure- 

 Hatch book. 



This is a splendidly illustrated book of 102 pages, 



and gives more practical information than m,any 

 books that sell for .$1.00 to $1.50. 



The Sure-Hatch book is so interesting that >ou"ll 

 sit up late to read it. Some poultry books are sim- 

 ply compiled from encycloptEdias by men who don't 

 know enough about chickens to set a hen. 



Write to the Sure-Hatch Incubator Co., Box 107, 

 Fremont, Neb., or Dept. 107, Indianapolis. Ind., and 

 ask for a copy of the Sure-Hatch book. They will 

 send it to you free, postpaid, by return mail. 



No one nowadays doubts the efficiency of spray- 

 ing. To buy the best outfit is a question every in- 

 tending purchaser should consider, as a poor outfit 

 is dear at any price. The Deming Co., whose ad. ap- 

 pears on another page will send you a catalog fully 

 explaining their excellent line of goods. Mention 

 Gleanings when you write. 



It's only a hop. skip, and a jump till springtime 

 now — the time when you want to be cleaning up the 

 yard, trimming up the trees, and giving the house a 

 new coat of paint. 



What kind of paint to buy — that's the question. 



O. L. Chase, the Paint Man of .St. Louis, has about 

 as liberal a selling offer on his made-to-order paint 

 as we have ever seen. He advertises to make 

 fresh paint to onlei — dating each can the day it's 

 made — and he sells it under a one-hundred-dollar 

 guarantee as to purity and freshness. He also gives 

 two full gallons of the paint free, to try. 



Such an offer as this makes one believe that Chase 

 must be making pretty good paint or he would not 

 dare to sell it on this plan. He issues a fine paint 

 book — showing big. handsome color-cards, and be- 

 fore you decide to buy somewhere else we believe 

 you ought to write for this book. It will give you 

 some mighty interesting paint information. The 

 address is O. L. Chase, The Paint Man, Dept. 24, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



Books Received. 



Songs of Bbbdom.— This is the title of a unique 

 publication by Geo. W. York & Co., Chicago, 111. It 

 comi irises all the popular bee-songs that have been 

 rendered at our bee conventions, with some new 

 odes. Every music-loving bet--keeper's family ought 

 to have a copy to enliven the winter's evenings. 

 Price 25 cents. We can furnish from this ofiQce at 

 publishers' price. 



