GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Contents for June 1, 1913 



EDITORIAL 361 



Moth-miller, Benefit of 362 



Foul-1 rooil Legislation 362 



STRAY STRAWS 364 



Extractinc; Unripe Honey 364 



Air Needed for Bees ..." 364 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES. 365 



Compensation for Bees Destroyed 365 



Idaho Foul-brood Law '. 365 



Honev Recipes 365 



NOTES FROM CANADA 366 



Spravins; in Canada 366 



CONVERSATION WITH DOOLITTLE . .367 



Swarmin'T, Natural 367 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 368 



California Foul-brood Law 368 



Middlemen Control Prices 368 



Season in California 369 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 370 



Introducing, Ways of 370 



Oliver Poster 373 



Field Day in New Zealand 374 



Shipping Fragile Articles 375 



Steam from a Tea-kettle 377 



Treatment of Diseases 379 



American Foul Brood 379 



Clover-fields, Making 381 



Top Entrances and Swarming 383 



Hiving Bees from a Fence 382 



Stings, how Bees Use 383 



Queens, Stings of 385 



Greasewood or Chico 385 



HEADS OF GRAIN 386 



Starvation and Foul Brood 386 



Frost in California 386 



Paralysis or Poison 387 



Swarms Clustering, Cause of 387 



Cottonseed Meal for Bees 388 



Grading Sections with Pollen 388 



Sheep on White Clover 388 



Removing a Queen 388 



Bees to the Pound 388 



Death of M. Isbell 388 



OUR HOMES 389 



HEALTH NOTES 391 



American Hookworm 391 



Starving America 391 



Poisoning Babies 393 



Cost of Living 393 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 394 



Seed Potatoes 394 



Sweet Clover in Florida 394 



Luther Burbank Society 395 



TEMPERANCE 396 



