GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July 15 



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 JULY 15, 1909 



EDITORIALS 419 



Crop Prospects 419 



Shippins-case, Corrugated 419 



Brood, Dead or Pickled 420 



Bees Sting More at one Time than Another. . .420 



Cross Bees at Vernon Burt's 421 



Sting, Severe 421 



Gloves for Cross Bees 421 



Gloves Rendered Sting-proof 421 



STRAY STRAWS 422 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 423 



Butcher-knife to Uncap 423 



Texas Convention 423 



SII-TINGS 424 



Queens Dying in Cells 424 



Queens Injured by Shaking 424 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 425 



Bees Visiting Various Flowers 425 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 426 



Uncapping-lcnivcs Discussed 426 



Extractors Driven by Power 426 



Second-hand Cans 426 



Splints for Extracting-combs 426 



Honey Versus Cane Sugar 427 



Honey Recipes 427 



Bee-keeping for Women 428 



Travel-stain 428 



Alsike Clover, Effect on Horses 429 



Alsike Displaces Red Clover 429 



.\lsike, Effect on White-nosed Colts 429 



Alsike, Veterinary's Opinion on 430 



Alsike for Sheep 430 



Hutchinson on Selling Honey 431 



Apiary in Northern Michigan 432 



Honey, Advertising 435 



Florida, Views in 437 



Fish, Florida Catch 438 



Carpentry for Bee-keepers 439 



Comb Honey versus Extracted .440 



Production of Extracted Honey 441 



Basswood.s of Europe and America 442 



Shaking Bees not Natural 442 



HEADS OF GRAIN 443 



No Brood Before Pollen was Supplied 443 



Swarms, Uniting Two 443 



Foundation, To Fasten in Brood Frames 443 



Bee-keeping in Maine 443 



Shook Swarming 444 



Feeding, Time for 444 



Honey from Foul-broody Hives 444 



Canard about Honey 444 



Swarm-catcher, New 445 



Car for Moving Bees 445 



Sweet Clover Sown in Corn 445 



Black Queens, to Find 445 



Bees in Grain-cars 445 



Wire-cloth Separators Not a Success 445 



Splints in Upper Stories 445 



OUR HOMES 448 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 448 



