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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aril. 15 



E. R. Root 



Editor 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors— Dr. C. C. Miller, J. A. Green, Pbof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane. Louis H. Scholl, 

 G. M. Doolittlb, R. F. Holtermann, "Stbnog." 



CONTENTS OF APRIL 15, 1907 



MARKET REPORTS 520 



STRAY STRAWS 535 



Eggs, Eating 535 



Queens, Two in a Colony 535 



Spraying in Illinois 536 



Honey Tariff in Europe 537 



March, a Warm 537 



Effects of Pood Law 537 



Saccharin Ruled out 537 



Bees Poisoned from Spraying> 537 



Maeterlinck on Bees. 538 



Rains in California 538 



Honey, Malted 538 



Indiana Pure-food Law 539 



Honey, Selling 539 



Spelling, Reformed 539 



Pure- food Laws 540 



Bacillus Alvei and Foul Brood 540 



Hone V, Price of 541 



BEE-KEEPING IN SOUTHWEST 542 



Honey in Cellar 542 



Supers. Cleaning 542 



Cacti for Honey 542, 558 



FANCIES AND FALLACIES 543 



Supplies, Price of 543 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 544 



Virgins, Introducing 544 



PICKINGS 546 



Nectar 546 



Foul Brood in Germany 546 



Hydromel, Dr. Miller on 547 



TOLD BY THE JAY 547 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 548 



New Swarms, Disposing of 548 



Outdoor Feeding 548 



Honey, Advertising .549 



Eucalyptus for Railroad Ties 550 



Bigelow's Observations 550 



Bee-keeping in Texas 552 



Frames Handled from Side of Hive 558 



Wax-rendering 559 



Queen-rearing 560 



Cell-trough, Atwater's .^l 



Baby Nuclei Discussed 561 



Commission Men, Case on 562 



Location of Bees 564 



Foul Brood, European 564 



Hives, Best for Bee-keeper 565 



HEADS OF GRAIN 566 



Starters of Old Combs .566 



Swarm, Removing from Tree .567 



Honey and Butter 567 



Smaller Crop with Excluders 567 



Bottom Starters in Brood-frames 567 



Entrance, Direction of 567 



Freight Rates 568 



Apple Crop Doubled by Bees 568 



Uncapping-knives Discussed 568 



Entrance-contractor 568 



Sweet Clover on Cultivated Land 569 



Ants Killed by Petroleum 569 



NOTES OF TRAVEL 570 



China Famine 574 



Basswoods, to Start 574 



The following letter from one of our subscribers 

 explains itself: 



The A. I. Root Co., Medina, O. 



Dear Sirs: — Thank you very much for the fountain 

 pen. It is as good as any I ever saw, and I hope all 

 the readers of Gleanings will be able to get one. 



Yours very truly, '' " 



Petersburg, Va.. April 5. R. M. McMtjrdo. 



We appreciate very much what Mr. McMurdo has 

 to say about the fountain pen which we furnish; and 

 while it is, perhaps the best on the market for the 

 price, yet we would not advertise it unless we 

 thought it was. We do not want our subscribers to 

 think that it is equal to pens sold for much higher 

 prices. With fountain pens as with every thing 

 else, one can not expect to get the best of the kind 

 for the lowest price. There is a decided demand, 

 however, for a low-priced pen, and we believe this 

 is a very satisfactory one to fill this demand. 



FARM AND GARDEN HELPS; TOOLS THAT SAVE TIME 

 AND LABOR AND RESULT IN LARGER CROPS. 



The scarcity of good farm help is a serious problem 

 which confronts the farmers to-day, and the result 

 is that many of them are compelled to let a large 

 part of their land lie idle and allow it to run to grass 

 and weeds. 



The farmer or gardener who depends on Iron Age 

 farm and garden tools has the best help in the world. 

 These tools do the work easier, quicker, and better 

 than it can be done by any other tools or methods. 

 There are Iron Age tools for every farming need, and 

 some of them combine several tools in one imple- 

 ment. 



The No. 6 Iron Age tool, for instance, can be used 

 either as a double or single wheel hoe, or as a bill or 

 drill seeder. At a single operation, it opens the fur- 

 row, sows the seed, covers and rolls the ground, and 

 marks the next row. It takes only a few minutes to 

 change into either form of wheel hoe. This imple- 

 ment can also be had without the seed attachment, 

 when it becomes the No. 1 Iron Age combined double 

 and single wheel hoe— the only wheel hoe that com- 

 bines these two forms. 



The No. 60 Iron Age riding cultivator is another 

 great labor-saver. It is quickly adjusted to culti- 

 vate any crop in rows from 28 to 48 inches in width. 

 It is successfully operated on both level and hilly 

 land, and all kinds of soil; is easy to guide and easy 

 to turn in smallest space. 



Iron Age potato machinery brings success to the 

 potato-grower, and makes his work more profitable. 

 The Iron Age (improved Robbins) potato-planter is 

 the only planter that does absolutely perfect work- 

 no misses or doubles— and doesn't bruise or puncture 

 the seed. Other Iron Age potato machinery com- 

 prises four-row sprayers, special riding cultivators, 

 and potato diggers. 



Iron Age tools are made by the Bateman Manu- 

 facturing Co., Grenloch, N. J., and the works have 

 been established since 1836. Only the best materials 

 and workmanship enter into the making of Iron Age 

 tools. They are light, strong, and easy-running, and 

 every implement is guaranteed. 



The 1907 Iron Age book is the most beautiful book 

 of its kind ever published, and shows and describes 

 the complete line of Iron Age farm and garden tools 

 —wheel hoes, seeders, fertilizers, distributors, horse 

 hoes, potato-planters, cultivators, sprayers, diggers, 

 etc. It is a book that should be in the hands of eve- 

 ry reader of Gleanings in Bee Culture, and will be 

 sent free on request to Bateman Mfg. Co., Box 120, 

 Grenloch. N. J. 



