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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E R. Root 



Editor 



A. 1. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors— Db. C. C. IVLiiiLEB, J. A. Green, Pbof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Cbanb. Louis H. Scholl, 



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



CONTENTS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1907 



STRAY STRAWS 1127 



Adulteration of Foundation 1127 



Queens Wintered Three Years 1128 



Sheep in an Apiary 1128 



EDITORIAL, 1 128 



Honey from Locust 1129 



Glucose gets a Slap 1 '29 



Tree Alfalfa 1130 



Parcels Post 1130 



Lippia in California 1130 



Sulphur Dioxid 1130 



Robber-traps •" 1131 



Labels. Wording on 113J 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 1133 



NOTES FROM CANADA '134 



Honey Free from Germs 1134 



Blind-louse Parasite 1'34 



Hives, Top and Side Opening 1 134 



Propolis on Fingers 1 1 34 



Carniolans 113.T 



GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN FIELDS 113.5 



German Bee .Journals 1135 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE ,. . 1136 



Queens, Several in Colony 1136, 1146, 1154 , 



Weights of Honey and Comb 1138 



McE vov's Report 1138 



Shaking Bees off Combs 1139 



Ontario Inspectors of Foul Brood 1140 



Queen-Cells over Excluders 1141 



Wax-worms ... 1142 



Pry al's Wax-extractor 1143 



Bee-keeper Three Years Old 1 144 



Pasturage, Artificial 1144 



Bee-keeping and Farming 1145 



Comb-cart 1146 



Hives, Sectional 1147 



Tools for Beginners 1 149 



System 1152 



HEADS OF GRAIN 1153 



Massachusetts for Honey 1153 



Gauge to Measure Slots 1153 



Drone Com'i in Supers 1153 



Cover Feeder 1154 



Queen-oells without Brood 1154 



Super-springs on Follower 1154 



OUR HOMES 1155 



Duck Story 1157 



Yellow Sweet Clover 1158 



Since we began to send Gleanings in a flat wrap- 

 per there have been a good many complimentary 

 letters from subscribers expressing their apprecia- 

 tion of the neat condition in which the paper reach- 

 ed them. There are a few instances, however, in 

 which there appears to be some trouble yet, espe- 

 cially with those subscribers located on the rural 

 routes, where the paper does not seem to have as 

 careful handling as where delivery is made by the 

 city carriers or at the post office. If subscribers con- 

 tinue to have their paper delivered in a soiled or 

 mutilated condition, and will give us a brief report 

 of the same and whether it is delivered by city car- 

 rier, rural carrier, or at th>^ post-office, we will see if 

 we cannot have it remedied, although we can not, of 

 course, expf'ct to adjust every little dissatisfaction. 



Some subscriber.*, where we have a club of two or 

 three at one postofflce, have reported in occasional 

 instances that they have received their own paper 

 with two or three numbers for other parties. If 

 this is continued, and you are handed two or three 

 papers in a bundle, call the attention of your post- 

 master to the fact that it is a club, and that the pa- 

 pers should be distributed at his otBce for the several 

 parties addressed, as he will see by examining the 

 package. For the information of those who are in- 

 terested in the manner of mailing we would explain 

 that our address labels have the name of the sub- 

 scriber only, and do not have the postofflce except 

 where there is a single subscriber at a postofflce, in 

 which case the address is complete. Where two or 

 more go to the same postofflce. each paper is stamp- 

 ed with the subscriber's name-label, and the several 

 copi- s are tied in a bundle, and the name of the 

 postofflce is thrn stamped on t>ie upper copy. The 

 postmaster's attention is called to the fact that it is 

 a club by a hand pointing to the postofflce name, 

 and there should be no difflculty in the distribution 

 at the postofflce. This explanation is made at this 

 time in answer to several inquiries regarding our 

 method of mailing where they have been having 

 difflculty. 



OUB ADVEBTISEES. 



The business man is always glad to note the same 

 customers returning year after year, as it is a cer- 

 tain indication his methods of doing business are 

 appreciated. We are moved to make this observa- 

 tion by the fact that some of our old advertisers 



have enlisted again with us for the fall and winter 

 campaign. For example, the old-reliable Kalama- 

 zoo Stove Company is with us as usual, occupying 

 considerable space in proclaiming the fact that they 

 are great stove-makers. We are all aware of this 

 fact, but they seek to remind us of it. Mr. Thomp- 

 son, the presiding genius of this concern, is mayor 

 of Kalamazoo, and one of the distinguished business 

 men of Michigan. This company makes a business 

 of selling its manufactures by mail instead of 

 through dealers; and', though it costs much money 

 to advertise, they find it pays to deal direct with 

 the consumers. 



The Rochester Radiator Co. are also again with 

 us. soliciting a share of Gleanings trade. Their 

 business is to economize heat, and in this they ar-;; 

 very successful. The ordinary stove is a great wast- 

 er of heat, and the Rochester Radiator folks claim 

 to be able to utilize quite a percentage of what is 

 now wasted in the shape of gas going up the chim- 

 ney. 



Kitselman Bros., of Muncie, Indiana, the great 

 fence-factory folks, are also on deck again as usual. 

 They must have a good deal of confidence in their 

 fencing to make the offer they do. Please read it. 



Again, we have with us the celebrated house of F. 

 W. Mann Co . Box 37, Milford, Mass., whose bone- 

 cutters have attained a world-wide celebrity. Eve- 

 ry scientific poultry-man has heard of Mann's bone- 

 cutters. 



Wo al<o have the ff mous makers of steel wagon- 

 wheels, the Empire Mfg. Co.. of Quincy 111., whose 

 nam^- is almost synonymous with stec 1 wheels and 

 low-down handy wagons for agricultural use in all 

 countries and climates. 



Another reliable firm of fence-makers is also with 

 us this issue— the Mason Fence Co., of Leesburg, O , 

 who advertise fencing at very low prices. If you 

 have much fencing to do, these low prices may ap- 

 peal to you. 



Furthermore we have the famous G. E. Conkey 

 Co., of Cleveland. Ohio, who again advertise their 

 well-known poultry remedies. If you are a poultry- 

 keeper as well as a bee-keeper (and many of our 

 readers are) we believe it will pay you to secure n. 

 copy of the Conkey Co.'s catalog. We think well of 

 the Conkey remedies or we would not k-^ep them in 

 stock at our agencies in New York, Philadelphia, 

 Washington, Chicago, and Medina. 



