GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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E. R. ROOT A. I. ROOT H. H. ROOT J. T. CALVERT 



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Contents for March 15, 1913 



EIDITORIAL 169 Ripening Honey Artificially 177 



Bees Sent without Combs 109 Queenless Colonies Get Pollen 180 



Spraying at Wrong Time 169 Increase Before Honey-tlow 180 



Connecticut Bee Inspection 169 Natural Shelter for Apiary 181 



Windbreaks and Wintering 169 Increase During Winter 182 



Careless Grading 170 Nursery Cage, New 187 



Michigan Foul-brood Bill 170 Getting Honey from Cappings 187 



Strengthening Colonies in Winter 170 Experience of Brood Inspector 189 



Sugar as a Food 170 Cleaning Infected Tools 189 



Sacbrood 171 Cincinnati Convention 190 



STRAY STRAWS 172 Grading Comb Honey 191 



StinKS, Relieving 172 HEAltS OF GRAIN 193 



Honey v. Syrup for Bee Feed 172 Rusty Honey-packages 193 



Honey Mixed with Syrup 172 Foul Brood, European 193 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 174 Overcrowding Bee-ranges 193 



SIFTINGS 173 Requeening to Prevent Swarming 194 



Finding Black Queens 173 Bee Locations in Oklahoma 194 



Weather Prospects in California 174 OUR HOMES 195 



Comb Honey by Mail 174 Hereditary Tendencies 196 



New California Bee Journal 174 Gvro Compass 197 



Beekeepers' Employees in California 174 POULTRY DEPARTMENT 198 



Panama Exposition 174 Indian Runner Ducks 198 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . 174 Ducks, Treatment of 198 



Short Honey-tlows 175 Animal Pood for Ducks 199 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST. .176 Baskets of Poultry Netting 199 



Bulk and Chunk Honey 176 Green Stuff for Chickens 199 



Work for March 176 Lettuce or Poultry 199 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 177 Hens' Nests 200 



