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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15 



E. R. Root 



Editor 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



Department Editors— Db. C. C. MiiiLBR, J. A. Green, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane, Louis H. Scholl, 



Q. M. DOOLITTLB, R. F. HOIiTBRMANN, "STENOG." 



CONTENTS OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1907 



HO^EY MARKKT 1176 



STRAYSTRAWS 1187 



Queens Fighting 1187 



Alsike in Illinois 1188 



EDITORIAL 1189 



Pure Food in England 1189 



Dandelion Maligned 1189 



Fined for Selling Bogus Honey 1 189 



Huber. Son of 1189 



Honey Gingerbread in France 1189 



Nevada for Bee-keepers 1190 



Five-banders 1190 



Alsike Gaining in Popularity 1190 



Crop Conditions 1190 



Honey as a Producer of Muscle 1191 



Stachelhansen, Death of 1192, 1195 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 1193 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 1194 



GE3NERAL CORRESPONDENCE 1 196 



CELLAR WINTERING 1196 



Foul Brood Cured in Five Minutes 1197 



White Clover 1198 



Gallberry 1199, 1200 



Root's Florida Island 1201 



Orange-blessom Honey 1202 



Wintering in Cellar at Dr. Miller's 1293 



Oak in Texas 1205 



Bee-keeper, Youngest 1206 



Robbing Prevented by Glass i 1206 



Hives. Sectional 1207, 1208, 1212 



DeatTi from Stings, False Report 1210 



Queens. Two in a Colony 1211 



Wintering with Small Entrances 1211 



Feeder, Can. Attached to Hive 1212 



OUR HOMES s 1213 



Sickness Discussed 1215 



Beer, Pabst 1216 



Stings for Rheumatism 1217 



Seed Corn 1217 



Sweet Clover 1218 



Blue Eyes, Second Edition 1218 



Temperance 1218 



ABOUT FIXING THE ROOFS. 



You will find in the advertising pages of this issue 

 an announcement of a new free book about fixing 

 up the old roofs. , . , 



You can have one of these books free by writing 

 to The Anderson Manufacturing Co., of Elyria, O., 

 and mentioning this magazine. 



It is full of good sensible suggestions for saving 

 money on roofing. Write for it. It's worth while. 



NUT BUTTER. 



Mr Walter S. Pouder, of Indianapolis, Ind , in 

 connection with his honey trade sells a superior 

 grade of nut butter put up in jars in a tasteful man- 

 ner to suit a fastidious trade such as he caters to. 

 Probably the same customers who buy honey will 

 also purchase nut butter. If you are interested, 

 possibly it would pay mou to write to Mr. Pouder 

 personally to get further particulars about devel- 

 oping a trade in nut butter. Then, too, you will 

 probably require some for your own use. 



The reader will be interested in reading, if he or 

 she has not done so already, the very interesting 

 offer of Gleanings in combination with the ffiint- 

 er-Trader-Traiymriov the very small sum of $150 

 for one year's subscription to both magazines. If 

 you are at all interested in hunting or trapping we 

 think you will be pleased with the Hunter- Trader- 

 Trapper. It dof s for the man or boy who wishes 

 to hunt or trap just what Gleanings does for bee- 

 keepers. It is intensely practical, and gives in the 

 course of a year very many hints on the proper way 

 to capture wild animals, dead or alive. It is a 

 monthly magazine of goodly proportions, and, being 

 closely printed, with not very many advertisements, 

 it contains as much reading-matter as others that 

 cost twice as much. 



The general tendency of the times is to treat all 

 sorts of live stock with greater care than formerly, 

 and this finds expression in better buildintrs for 

 them warmer in winter and cooler in summer. In 

 the list of live stock may be included bees. We now 

 know bees suffer from cold after being withdrawn 

 from the cellar unless some kind of covering is add- 

 ed to the hive. One of the best coverings, and pos- 

 sibly the very best, is the excellent ready roofing 

 we have nowadays, and which has the added advan- 



tage of being very reasonable in price, every thing 

 considered. 



Now that lumber is so expensive, this is impor- 

 tant; and all kinds of out-houses can be economical- 

 ly and efficiently protected on the outside with good 

 ready roofing. In some respects the roofing is ac- 

 tually better than lumber— warmer in winter and 

 cooler in summer. 



There usr d to be some trouble with the rusting of 

 the tin caps formerly used in fastening the ready 

 roofing; but even this has been overcome by the in- 

 vention of a rust-proof cap which has the additional 

 advantage of being square, which gives more hold- 

 ing power than the old-fashioned round-headed 

 broad tack. These new caps are the patented prop- 

 erty of F. W. Bird & Son, of East Walpole, Mass., 

 who do not sell them except in connection with their 

 well-known paroid roofing. 



If any of our readers are in the market for some 

 kind of covering for- buildings it ^might be well for 

 t'. em to look into the merits of tfiese new caps. It 

 is evident thev are quite an improvement, and to a 

 great degree do away with the objections to ready 

 roofing. 



F. W. Bird & Son generously send samples of both 

 their roofing and the caps gratis so that prospective 

 buyers may investigate for themselves at their lei- 

 sure. They may be addressed at P^ast Walpole, 

 Mass.; Hamilton. Ontario, or Chicago, 111. 



If you write, please mention Gleanings. 



We have been informed that the honey and bee 

 exhibit at the Indiana State Fair was particularly 

 good. The local papers say the exhibit of Walter 

 S. Pouder, of Indianapolis, was especially fine. He 

 had every thing in the apiarian line on show— hon- 

 ey, beeswax, and bee-keepers' supplies. He also 

 had miniature hives of bees on display, calculated 

 to interest farmer visitoi-s. He had a very large 

 number of jars of honey as clear as amber, arranged 

 in rows to show what bees can do in the way of 

 gathering nature's sweets. Mr. Pouder lives up to 

 his reputation as one of the great bee-men of the 

 United States, for his exhibit in Horticultural Hall 

 was well worth going to see and spending some time 

 to examine Such exhibits justify the management 

 in providing handsome premiums to draw bee-keep- 

 ing exhibits from all over the State. 



Messrs, Rumber, of Mohawk, Ind., and Mr. Leav- 

 itt, of Mpchanicsburg, Ohio, also had very interest- 

 ing exhibits of bees and bee-keeping. 



