GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 1 



Gleanings In Bee Culture 



E. R. ROOT 



Editor 



A. I. ROOT 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. ROOT 



Assistant Editor 



J. T. CALVERT 



Business Manager 



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CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY 15, 1909 



EDITORIAL 119 



Uncapping-knife Heated by Steam 119 



Corrugated Paper in Shipping-cases 120 



Bees by Express 120 



Virgin Queens by Mail 120, 122 



STRAY STRAWS 122 



NOTES FROM CANADA 123 



Hives, How to Face 123 



Heather Bee-keepers 123 



Hives, Size of 123 



GLEANINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES 124 



Parcels Post 124 



Irrigation Projects 124 



Menace of Arid Land 124 



Benzoate of Soda 124 



BEE-KEEPING AMONC; THE RbCKlES 125 



Importation of Honey 125 



Colorado Pure-food Exposition 125 



Herman Rauchfuss 125 



Caucasians Better than Italians 125 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 126 



Choosing a Location 126 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 127 



Tariff on Honey 127 



Bee-keeping in California 128 



Souring of Honey 128 



Knives, Hot or Cold 128 



Honey-cans, Need of Washing 129 



Uncapping at One Stroke 130 



Maryland Bee-keepers 131 



Honey-house, Real 132 



Ant-proof Building in Hawaii 133 



Extractor, Foot-power, Wanted 133 



San Francisco Markets 133 



Editor's Experience with Bees 134 



Eleven Years Aith Bees 1^5 



Foul Brood, Curing 136 



Atwater's Wax-press 137 



Bee-keeping as a Business 138 



Sectional Hive Adopted 139 



Cuba, Drawbacks of 140 



Honey, Daily Use of 140 



Photography, Hints on 141 



Honey-strainer, Pettit's 143 



HEADS OF GRAIN 144 



Knot- weed 144 



Bee Bungalow 144 



Forest Fires, Cause of 145 



Carbon Bisulphide Injures Honey 145 



Oklahoma for Bees 145 



Clover Seed to Sow per Acre 145 



Bees Fighting in Winter 146 



Roofing-paper for Hives 146 



Knife, Cold, Preferred 146 



Bees Moved Short Distances 146 



OUR HOMES 147 



Secrets, Selling 147 



Mites, to Destroy 147 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 148 



Mites on Fowls 149 



