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(iLEANlNGS IN BEE (ITLTURE. 



Oct. 15 



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. Miller, J. A. Green, Prof. A. J. Cook, J. E. Crane. Louis H. Scholl, 

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



CONTENTS OF OCTOBER 15, 1907 



HONEY MARKET 1296 



STRAYSTRAWS 1307 



EDITORIAL 1308 



Crop Reports 1309 



Parcels Post 1309 



Honey Market 1309 



Soil for Clovers 1309 



Caucasians 1310 



Colonies Dying with Stores 1310 



Normalities in Introduction 1311 



Questions. 20 Answered 1312 



Bee-keeping in the Southwest 1313 



Poison on Cotton 1313 



Bees, Improved 1314 



FANCIES AND FALLACIES 1315 



Labels. Wording on 131.5 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 13'6 



POINTERS BY THE JAY 1347 



Swarm Problem 1317 



G ENER AL CORRESPONDENCE 1318 



Hive-covers 1318 



Wasps and Hornets 1318 



Bee-keeper, Keller's Young 1320 



Honey Liquefied in Cans 1320 



Bottom Starters in Sections 1321 



Cotton in Texas 1321 



Comb-cart, Lossing's 1322 



Hives. Chaff 1323 



Bees in Open Air 1323 



Spaces, Deep, under Bottom-bars 1324 



Building up Weak Colonies 1325 



Eucalyptus 132.5 



Turntable in Honey-house 1327 



Plural- queen System 1328 



Bee-keeping in West Indies 1329 



HEADS OF GRAIN 1330 



Location. Protected 1330 



Moths on Comb Honey 13.30 



Honey, 3'0 Gallons Extracted in a Day 1330 



Queens. Two in a Hive 1320 



Bees on Peaches 1331 



Poem bv G'-aves 1331 



OUR HOME S 1332 



Civilized Out of Existence 13.35 



Air. Pure, for Poultry 1336 



Sweet Clover as a Weed 1337 



Chestnut-trees 1338 



Pecan-trees 13.38 



Temperance 13.38 



Vice-president Turned Down 1338 



HOW GLEANINGS CLASSIFIED ADS. SOLD A CROP OF 

 HONEY. 



FOR Sale.— 10,000 lbs. of extracted honey, white 

 clover and heart's-ease mixed. Honey is well ripen- 

 ed, light in color, and of very fine quality. Put up 

 in barrels or new 60-lb. tin cans. 



Emil J. Baxter. 

 Nauvoo, Hancock Co., 111. 



Dear /Sm's.-— Please stop my honey adv't, as it is 

 all sold. Please send bill. Yours truly, 

 Nauvoo, 111,, Oct. 4, EMIL J. Baxter. 



p. s.— Please mention in Gleanings that honey 

 is sold, so I will not be pestered to death answering 

 letters. E. J. B. 



StTBTTRBAN LIFE. 



Elsewhere we print the advertisement of this 

 prominent magazine for the home-builder. If you 

 wish to get ideas for improving your home we think 

 you will find just what you wish in Suburban L<ff. 

 It makes a great feature of beautiful pictures, which 

 gives the hurried reader the very best ideas of land- 

 scape work at a glance, and enables him to get very 

 vivid ideas of what others have done in the same 

 line, not a hundred years ago, or in some foreign 

 country, but right here and now. Perhaps no fea- 

 ture of our time stands out more prominently than 

 the extraordinary pains that are now being taken 

 to idealize the home as a place of rest and happiness 

 among trees, birds, and flowers, where the children 

 may grow up among cheerful natural surroundings, 

 close to nature's heart. Magazines like Suburban 

 Life have done and are doing much to popularize 

 this kind of life. Many people never realized before 

 the opportunities they had until they saw the beau- 

 tiful views presented in these magazines, showing 

 what others were doing. They have been greatly 

 stimulated, and helped far beyond the mere cost in 

 dollars and cents. Read the offer Suburban Life is 

 making to Gleanings readers and we believe you 

 will scarcely find it in your heart to resist the im- 

 pulse to subscribe. 



artificial worms and BUGS. 



Most poultry-men know that fowls of all kinds 

 crave a meat diet of some sort, usually in the form 

 of worms and insects, depending largely on what 

 they can most readily pick up when they are allow- 

 ed a free ranee. The more of this kind of food they 

 can pick up the better, because it not only saves the 

 cost of feeding them but also greatly stimulates 

 eg8--production. 



When fowls are kept in small enclosures the case 

 is entirely different; for it is no longer possible for 

 them to pick up very much, if, indeed, they can get 

 any thing at all, and to be successful the care-taker 

 must provide them with a satisfactory substitute. 



The most satisfactory substitute for worms yet 

 discovered by American poultry-men has been green 

 cut bone. It is satisfactory, because it can be cheap- 

 ly and easily obtained, and yet contains the same in- 

 gredients that are found in bugs and worms. 



The chief item in its cost is the labor of cutting 

 up the bone intopiecessmall enough so the chickens 

 may readily swallow them; and a number of devices 

 have been invented calculated to deal with this 

 problem. One of the very best inventions for this 

 purpose is the F. W. Mann green-bone cutter adver- 

 tised elsewhere in Gleanings, which has been on 

 the market for some years, and found quite satis- 

 factory by a large army of users scattered over the 

 whole of North America. There can not be a better 

 testimonial than this. 



Properly cut green bone has been found to main- 

 tain the health of poultry fed on it to a remarkable 

 degree, and by its use it has been found perfectly 

 feasible to k^ep poultry in confinement on a very 

 large scale. Many of our most expert poultry-men 

 would hardly know what to do without one of Mann's 

 green-bone cutters in their yard, coupled with a 

 large supply of green bone. 



So convinced are the makers of this machine (F. 

 W. Mann Co., Milford, Mass.) that they actually al- 

 low a prospective purchaser the privilege of a ten- 

 days' free trial In doing this they do not ask a de- 

 posit or any thing of that sort, but give just what 

 they say they will do — a fair free trial without any 

 obligation to pay for it if not satiafsctory. Nothing 

 could be fairer. 



