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GLEANING-^ IN BEP: CUI/rURE. 



Dec. 1 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E. R. Root, 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



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

 Q. M. Doolittlb. R. F. Holtermann. "Stenog," W. K Morrison. 



CONTENTS OF DECEMBER 1, 1907 



HONEY MARKET 1474 



STRAYSTRAWS 1487 



Ventilation of Cellars 1487 



Dual Plan with Virgins ; 1488 



Spraying, Time of 1488 



Officers for National Bee-keepers' Association .. 1488 



EDITORIAL 1489 



Keeping Comb Honey in Winter 1490 



Comb-honey Lies, Waning of 1490 



Honey, Scarcity of 1490 



Adulteration Being Abandoned 1491 



Forests, Destruction of 1491 



Sweet Clover on the Farm 1492 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 1493 



NOTES FROM CANADA 1494 



Foul Brood, Spread of 1494 



Clover, White Italian 1494 



Beeware — Ides of 1494 



GLEANINGS FROM PACIFIC COAST 1495 



Enemies of Bees 1495 



Bees in Fight 1495 



Micro-organisms 1495 



Insects on Bees 1495 



Bee-moth 1495 



Bee-louse 1496 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 1496 



Plural-queen System 



Coggshall's Veil and Shirt 



Century Plant 



Water for Bees 



Wrappers for Sections of Honey 



Hive-lifters 



Colonies Packed in Buckwheat Chaff. 



Sections, Size and Shape of 



Ceylon, Swarms in 



Drones for Chickens 



Bee-keeping, Failures in 



Swarms Choosing a Location 



Feeding for Winter Stores 



HEADS OF GRAfN 



Wintering with Closed Entrances 



Chapman Honey-plant 



Bee-tree Hunting 



Queens, Two in a Hive 



Shipping cases with Sliding Covers.. . 



Swarming. Prevention of 



Bees on Alfalfa in Indiana 



Glass Cell-forming Sticks 



OUR HOME'S 



HEALTH NOTES 



Wyoming for Bees 



Special Notices 



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This is the time of year when the farmer should 

 give a little extra thought to his stock, and make 

 sure they are properly and warmly housed. It's an 

 investment to do so. The nights are sharp and a 

 bad draft may mean the loss of a good many dol- 

 lars' worth of live stock. When it costs so little to 

 put a barn or building in good shape, it's a mistake 

 to neglect looking out for this. A few rolls of pa- 

 roid roofing will make a snug warm shelter out of 

 almost any kind of building. Not only is it used for 

 roofs, but the sides as well. 



Some ideas and suggestions along these lines are 

 found in a little book entitled "Practical Farm 

 Buildings," which gives valuable advice to any one 

 planning to build or repair. The publishers, F W. 

 Bird & Son, of East Walpole, Mass., will be pleased 

 to send a copy to any one interested in these sub- 

 jects upon receipt of four cents in stamps to pay for 

 postage. 



RURAL school AGRICULTURE, BY CHARLES W. 

 DAVIS. 



The above is the title of a new book, on agricul- 

 ture, for use in common schools, by the Professor of 

 Agriculture in the Agricultural College of North 

 Georgia. It is a very difficult matter to reduce the 

 teachings of science to language which the ordina- 

 ry boy or girl can understand; but the author of 

 the book before us has succeeded ingoing so in a 

 very happy manner He has selected two promi- 

 nent American crops — corn and cotton — for the ma- 

 jor portion of his experiments, and in this he is 

 wise, as It is easy to get such material almost any- 

 where. 



The book is in no sense a southern one exclusive- 

 ly, but will be found very useful almost anywhere 

 in agricultural countries. We imagine it would 

 prove very useful in South Africa, the West Indies, 

 and Australia, where the English language is in 

 common use. It is certainly well arranged to suit 

 most schools in this country Books of this nature 

 should have far more recognition than they have 

 had heretofore. By teaching agriculturp in our 

 country schools the children will learn to respect 

 the farmer's calling as a noble occupation. In 



many cases the children are led to believe they 

 must go to th-^ city to achieve greatness, and that 

 farming is something of an inferior trade when 

 compared with other trades and professions. 



There are 143 exercises or experiments in all. be- 

 ginning with very simple ones up to those more 

 complex. There is a very nice glossary, which is 

 so very necessary in this case, as the pupils havp to 

 learn a set of words which they probably never 

 heard before. Formulas of various sorts are also 

 given, and, in addition, directions for judging vari- 

 ous products of the farm. Milk is one of the sub- 

 jects to be judged by means of a score card. 



The typography is excellent there being plenty 

 of space between lines and words, so that the read- 

 ing of the subject-matter is easy. The illustrations 

 are plain a id practical, as they oui?ht to be in a 

 schoolbook. Altogether the book is a credit to the 

 author and Viis publishers, the Orange Judd Co It 

 contains 300 pages, and is cloth-bound, at the price 

 of $1.00, postpaid. We can supply it from this office 

 if desired. 



HARDY TREES. 



Any person who may be on the outlook for hardy 

 trees can hardly fail to be interested in the adver- 

 tisement of thfi Gardner Nursery Co.. of Osage, 

 Iowa, whose advertisement appears on page 1519 of 

 this issue. Situated where they are right in the 

 blizzard belt they can hardly fail to produce a veg- 

 orous cold-resisting class of trees. This firm has 

 studied the matter of blizzard-resisting trees for 

 a number of years, and doubtless have accumulat- 

 ed a great fund of experience which must, of neces- 

 sity, be valuable to their customers. A great deal 

 of money has been lost by farmers in the blizzard 

 belt in experimenting with trees which had been 

 recommended as hardy by men who did not under- 

 stand the extremely trying winter conditions of 

 our northwstern States. This could have been 

 avoidpd if the purchasers of these trees had com- 

 municated with the foregoing concern which has 

 experimented for years till they have found just 

 what will succeed. 



