GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Oct. 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 OCTOBER 15, 1909 



EDITORIAL 621 



Amount of Acid in Sugar Syrup 622 



Prospects for Clover in 1910 622 



Two Queens Introduced in Same Cage 622 



Three Thousand Queens from One Yard 622 



Sources of Honey-dew ' 623 



National Convention 623 



STRAY STRAWS 624 



Splints Discussed 624, 629 



Uniting Bees in the Fall 624 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 625 



Supers, Where to Put 625 



Small Bees from Old Combs 625 



Crop. Price of 625 



SIFTINGS 626 



Advertising Honey 626 



Latham's Apiary 626 



Corrugated Honey-packages 626 



Wax, Color of 626 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 627 



Insuring Pure Mating 627 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 628 



Manufactured Comb Honey 628 



Bees Gnawing Splints 628, 629 



Honey-dew and Food Law 629 



Bee-breeding 630 



Queen-excluders as Honey-excluders 631, 632 



Hive-tools 632 



Greasy Cappings 635 



Pollen Moved by Bees 635 



Ventilation in Hot Weather 638 



Orange-blossom Honey 638 



Irrigation in Wyoming 641 



Carpentry for Bee-keepers 641 



Bees, Length of Flight 642 



Bee-keeping in New Zealand 642 



Pure Air for Bee-cellars 643 



HEADS OF GRAIN 644 



Flour Method of Introducing 644 



Horses Poisoned by St. John's-wort 644 



Honey and Honey-dew in Same Comb 644 



Honey Oozing through Cappings 644 



Bees Counted on Sweet Clover 644 



Wooden Butter-dishes Unsafe 644 



Queens Flying When Hives are Opened 645 



Ventilation of Hives in a Cellar 645 



Ventilation through Bottom-board 645 



Combs Cut Down by Bees 645 



Indiana Fair 645 



Thieves in Apiary Prevented 645 



Beans Yielding Honey 645 



Granulation of Honey-dew in Comb 645 



Corrugated Uncapping-knife 645 



OUR HOMES 646 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 648 



Fireless Brooders 648 



