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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



Gleanings In Bee .Culture 



E. R. Root 



Editor 



A. I. Root 



Edit"r Home Department 



H. H. Root 



Ass't Editor 



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



G. M. DOOLITTLE, R. F. HOLTERMANN, W. K. MORRISON. 



honey column 608 



STRAY STRAWS 621 



EDITORIAL 622 



Honey Identified by Pollen 623 



Parcels Post, Failure of 623 



Swarming, To Prevent 624 



Appalachian Reserve 624, 625 



Extracted Honey, Packages for 624 



Bee Book, Wilder's 624 



Requeening, Automatic 625 



Corn Syrup 625 



Sweet Clover, Value of 625 



Price of Honey for 1908 625 



Irrigation in Idaho 626 



Patent, The Beuhne 626 



Titoft, A. E 626 



FANCIES AND FALLACIES 627 



Honey at Hotels 627 



Prohibition on Cars 627 



Stings for Rheumatism 62^ 



Syrup, Thickness of 628 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 628 



Bottom-bars, Wide 629 



Buckwheat in Texas 629 



Requeening, Time of 629 



Clipping Queens 630 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 631 



Comb and Extracted Produced in Same Super 631 



South Idaho Bee Association 632 



Winnie C. Muse, Young Bee-keeper 633 



Beeswax in the Arts 633 



Colorado Honey-consumers 635 



Texas Bee-keeping 635 



Surplus, Large, from Weak Colony 636 



Honey Exhibit in Virginia 637 



Bee-shed for Shade 637 



Cutting Bee-trees in Winter 637 



Production of Extracted Honey 638 



Management Previous to Honey-flow 640 



Weak Colonies with Good Queens 642 



HEADS OF GRAIN 642 



Starter at Top and Bottom 642 



Beeswax, Testing 643 



Labeling of Honey 643 



Swarm Travels 80 Miles 643 



OUR HOMES 644 



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