GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Sept. 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 SEPTEMBER 15, 1909 



EDITORIAL 555 



Bartlett's Tenement Hive 555 



Corrugated Shipping-cases 555 



Outdoor Feeding 555 



Mixed Grading 555 



Feeding Back for Winter 556 



Shake-out Plan for Introducing 556 



Red-clover and Long-tongue Bees 556 



STRAY STRAWS 558 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 559 



Vacuum Extractor 559 



Locating Out-apiaries 559 



SIFTINGS 560 



Paper Shipping-cases 560 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 561 



Feeding for Winter Stores 561 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 562 



Splints, Use of 562 



Winter Cases in the Far North 563 



Bartlett's Winter Case 564 



Removing Honey from Hives 565 



Conditions for Feeding 566 



Belts Slipping, Rosin for 566 



Bees and Neighbors 567 



Fireless-cooker Wintering-boxes 570 



Bee-keeping in South Africa 571 



Freezing, Effect on Bees 573 



Shipping Bees Without Loss 574 



Ventilation and Watery Cappings 574 



Bees Wintered in Warm Room 575 



Carpentry for Bee-keepers 575 



HEADS OF GRAIN 577 



Bees, Length of Flight 577 



Sealed Covers vs. Loose 577 



Drones Reared above Zinc 577 



Combs Breaking in Extractor 577 



Bees Killed on Telephone 578 



Honey Without Labels 578 



Rosin Tainting Honey 578 



Care of Bees 578 



Italianizing 578 



Inferior Queens, Disposal of 578 



Robbers Made into a Colony 578 



Rubber Roofing for Hives 578 



Italian Virgins, Mating of 579 



Flour Method of Introducing 579 



Excluders, Use of 579 



Cow Peas 579 



OUR HOMES 580 



Care of Infants 580 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 582 



POULTRY DEPARTMEN i" 582 



