GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Oct. 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 OCTOBER 1, 1909 



EDITORIAL 587 



STRAY STRAWS 590 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 591 



Scales to Weigh Sections 591 



Selling Culls as Chunk Honey 591 



Isolated Bee-keeper Selling Honey 591 



Folding Sections Square 591 



Selling Honey to Grocers 591, 592 



NOTES FROM CANADA 592 



Place for Empty Section-supers 592 



Shaking Bees , 592 



Energy of Swarms 592 



Basswood Pollen 592 



Queen-excluders as Honey-excluders 592 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 593 



Uniting Bees in the Fall 593 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 594 



Comb-building 594 



Wax-secretion Not Involuntary 594 



Foreign Methods vs. American 594 



European Frames 595 



Crossing Strains of Bees 595 



Shaking Energy into Bees 595 



Bee Diseases in Europe 596 



Laws Regarding Honey 596 



Brazilian Methods 596 



Texas State Fair 597 



Alsike Clover 598 



Brood, Cause of its Death 598 



Keeping Combs and Bees Dry 599 



Smith's Winter Case 599 



Field Meeting in Massachusetts 600 



Taking off Honey 600 



Full Sheets vs. Starters 694 



Bee-cellar in a Side-hill 607 



Carpentry for Bee-keepers 607 



Pennsylvania Bee Convention 608 



Holes in Queen-cages, Size of 609 



HEADS OF GRAIN 610 



Bees of New Swarm Fighting 610 



Fine Comb Honey in Shallow Frames 610 



Bees Moved Safely a Short Distance 610 



Automatic Honey-gate 610 



Filling Feeders when Robbers are Bad 611 



Place for Baits in Supers 611 



Canadian Spra> ing Law 611 



Honey Melted with Wax Injured 611 



Bee-keeping in Turkey 611 



Introducing Queens by Flour Method 612 



Splints, Object of 612 



Milkweed Causes Poisoning 612 



Sore Noses in Horses 612 



Surplus Queens V\ intered in Cellar 612 



Colony Leaves Brood and Hive 612 



Tansy to Stop Robbing 612 



Selling Honey in City Market 612 



OUR HOMES 613 



Contagious Diseases 613 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 616 



Incubators vs. Hens 616 



