GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 1 



Gleanings In Bee Culture 



E. R. ROOT 



Editor 



A. I. ROOT 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. ROOT 



Assistint Editor 



J. T CALVERT 



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CONTENTS FOR AUGUST 1, 1909 



STRAY STRAWS 454 



Stinging Not Always Fatal to Queen 454 



Weight of Bees i . .454 



Splints Discussed 454 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 455 



Tiering Supers 455 



Grading Honey 455 



Loading Cars of Honey 455 



GLEANINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES 456 



Wiley Vindicated 456 



Gunnison Tunnel 458 



Flora of Spain 456 



Foul Brood from Cracker-boxes 4.56 



NOTES FROM CANADA 457 



Wedges under Brood-chamber 457 



Honey-dew 457 



New Bee Disease in Canada 457 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 458 



.\fter-swarming 458 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 459 



Symposium on Shipping Honey .459 



Sight-draft Plan Not Advised 460 



Young Brood for Colony that has a Virgin 461 



Dr. Miller's Reply 462 



Gleanings and Dr. Wiley 462 



Extracting Honey by Suction 463 



Honey-strainer, Cone-shaped 466 



Watering Bees on Bricks 467 



Glass in Shipping- cases Not Necessary 467 



Bee Culture in a City 468 



Questions about Queens 469 



Instructions for Beginners 472 



Power Honey-extractors 473 



Pulleys, Changing Speed of 473 



Home-made Extractor-brake 474 



HEADS OF GRAIN 475 



Swarm Killing Bees 475 



Bait Sections in Corners of Supers 475 



Keeping Brood-chamber Filled with Brood. . .475 



Bees and Neighbors 475 



Shipping a Few Colonies a Long Way 475 



Chloroform, Effect of on Bees 476 



Fumes in Place of Smoke for Bees 476 



Poisonous Honey 476 



Basswoods, Various 476 



Candy-holes Made Smaller 476 



Swarm, to Get in an Inaccessible Plac- 476 



Requeening by Giving a Ripe Cell 476 



Black Drones, Mysterious Origin of 477 



Swarm Not Following Scouts 477 



Question about Introducing 477 



Test for Pure Italians 477 



Sections Containing Honey-dew 477 



Bees and Peaches 477 



Wahoo-lree 477 



Comb Cut to Midrib 477 



Larva^, Mvsterious Source of 477 



OUR HOMES 478 



Miller's Letter to Baby Katharine 481 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 481 



