GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Dec. 1 



Gleanings In Bee Culture 



E. R. ROOT 



Editor 



A. I. ROOT 



Editor Home Department 



H. H. ROOT 



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J. T. CALVERT 



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CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER 1, 1909 



EDITORIAL 721 



Comb-honey Carriers 722 



Beeway vs. Plain Sections 722 



Grading Rules Criticised 723 



Color of Alfalfa Honey 723 



Early or Late Cut Alfalfa 723 



STRAY STRAWS 724 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 725 



NOTES FROM CANADA 726 



Requeening 726 



Foul Brood in Canada 726 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 727 



Locating an Apiary 727 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 728 



Fighting Black Brood 728 



Pure-food Law Criticised 729 



Full Sheets in Sections Recommended 730 



Colonies in a Warm Room 731 



Warming Supers 731 



Confined Bees Producing Wax 731 



Introducing Queens 732 



Flour Method a Success 732 



India, News from 732 



Texas Bee Convention 733 



Specializing in Bee-keeping 733 



Bee-sheds 734 



Upper and Double Entrances 734 



Winter Cases 735 



Massachusetts Bee Convention 736 



Paulownia Imperialis 736 



Cuban Apiaries 737 



Weeping Honey 738 



Combs, How to Handle 739 



New Zealand, Bee-keeping in 739 



Incubator, A. I. Root's 740 



Syrup, Thick or Thin ..741 



Honey-dew, Source of 743 



HEADS OF GRAIN 744 



Honey Partly Souring 744 



Fighting After Feeding 744 



Bees, Strange Loss in August 744 



Pounding on Hive, Effect of 744 



Dead-air Space Around Combs . 744 



Uniting, Ultimate Failure in 745 



Super the Place for Comb-building 745 



Bees Fly Backward 745 



Oil-cloth Covers Preferred 745 



Jiggers on Horses' Noses 745 



Wintering Outdoors, Plan to let Moisture out 745 



Flour Method, New Use of 745 



Splints, Short, Satisfactory 745 



OUR HOMES 746 



White-slave Trade 746 



HEALTH NOTES 748 



Deafness, Cold-water Cure, etc 748 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 750 



Simplicity Incubator 750 



Hawks, Skunks, etc 751 



