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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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R. Root 



Editor 

 Department Editors- 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



-Dr. C. C. Milleb, J. A. Green, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane, Louis H. Scholl, 



G. M. DOOIilTTLB, R. F. HOLTERMANN, " STENOG." 



CONTENTS OF APRIL 1, 1907 



MARKET REPORTS 444 



STRAY STRAWS 459 



Control of Bee Territory 460 



Cellars, Temperature of 460 



EDITORIAL 461 



"Cuban and California Crop 461 



Apiary in Peru 461 



Teddy Bears 461 



Indiana Foul-brood Bill Lost 461 



Missouri Foul-brood Law 461 



Honey, Queer Notions Concerning 462 



Honey, Future of 462 



Wiley, Prof., Service of 463 



Foods. Predijfested 463 



Foul Brood, Euroiiean and American 464 



GLEANINGS FROM PACIFIC COAST 466 



Rains in California 466 



California Climate for Lung Troubles 466 



Glands in Insects 466 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 467 



Toads in the Apiary 467 



Cows an Enemy to Bee-keepers 467 



Honey in Butter 468 



Hive-tools 468 



Thin or Extra-thin Foundation 468 



NOTES FROM CANADA 469 



Locality and Bees 469 



Spraying, Time of 470 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 470 



Getting Bees Ready for the Harvest 470 



GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN FIELDS 472 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 473 



Apiary of AarOn Snyder 475 



Honey Reports, Accuracy of 477 



Sweet Clover at Dr. Miller's 478 



Bee Demonstration 48'! 



Holtermann's Bee-cellar 481 



Wintering Problem 482 



Brood-chambers, Deep v. Shallow 485 



Clover, To Get More Honey from 486 



Bee-keeping in New Zealand 487 



Wax-press, Lockwood s 487 



Parthenogenesis in Plants 488 



Sladen's Book on Bee-keeping 489 



Out-yards in Michigan 490 



Bee-book, Review of an Old 492 



Case on Foul Brood 492 



Queens, Clipping 493 



Feeders Alexander, To Make 493 



West Protector for Introducing 494 



Sweet Clover, Cause of Not Growing 494 



Alexander Method a Failure 494 



Birds and Drones 495 



Strength of Alfalfa Flow 495 



Carniolans v. Caucasians 495 



Bailey Hive-lifter 495 



OUR HOMES 496 



Convention Notices 513 



Catalogs Received 



We have just received a four-page circular from 

 A. E. Titoff, lamosa, California, breeder of Italian 

 and Caucasian bees and queens. It will be remem- 

 bered that Mr. Titoff spent several years with us 

 here at Medina in our own queen-breeding yards, 

 and, being very familiar with both the Italian and 

 Caucasian bees before coming to America, he is 

 well qualified to judge of the merits of good breed- 

 ing stock. We presume there is no one in better 

 position to furnish Caucasian breeding queens than 

 is Mr. Titoff. We suggest getting his prices. 



POTATO PROFITS DOUBLED. 



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 the successful growing of large and unusually profit- 

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 in the little book "The Acme of Potato Proht," 

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 the different methods of planting, and how to avoid 

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 can secure perfect results, and how this is done 

 with the Acme hand potato-planter, at a cost of but 

 one dollar. It all makes a ."^tory so interesting and 

 instructive— a story so cleariy and simply told that 

 our readers should not fail to read it. 



" The Acme of Potato Profit " is sent free by the 

 Potato Implement Co., of Traverse City, Michigan. 

 box 520. 



A FEW QUESTIONS FOB POULTRYMBN. 



If your fowls are ailing, can you determine from 

 their actions just what the trouble is? 



If you can. do you know of a remedy that is abso- 

 lutely reliable every time'/ 



Can you tell just what causes that particular ail- 

 ment so as to prevent its recurrence'? 



Do you know that you are entitled to just so much 

 profit from each fowl, whether you own three or 

 three thousand? 



Do you fully understand how to house them, feed 

 them, treat them, breed them and raise them, to re- 

 alize fully the greatest profit'/ 



How would you like to have, right at your hand, 

 the condensed opinions, the consensus of opinion, of 

 the most successful poultry-raisers of the country as 

 your daily guide in poultry culture? 



How would you like to hate this opinion of the 

 most successful indexed and condensed, so that you 

 would not have to wade through volumes to get at 

 the meat of the question you may have in your 

 mind'? 



How would you like to know at once the best form 

 of house, the best breed of poultry for a given pur- 

 pose and a given locality and climate, the best ap- 

 pliance for a specific purpose, the best of interest 

 for the poultryman? 



As this is the season for gapes, what do you know 

 about the matter? What causes this disease? What 

 will you do to cure it absolutely? What will pre- 

 vent your fowls from having it again? What will 

 cure it without all the trouble and uncertainty of 

 fumes, extractors, and all that nonsense? 



This is how: Look up G. E. Conkey's advertise- 

 ment in this issue and note the conditions for ob- 

 taining Conkey's book on poultry diseases free. It 

 has been selling for 25 cents, and is worth dollars. 

 Send to-day. 



