Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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E. R. ROOT 



Editor 

 Department Editors 



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



Editor Home Dept. Ass't Editor Business Mgr. 



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1':DIT0RIAL 95 



Fraudulent Bulk Honey 96 



Honey Statistics 96 



Specialist Bee-keeper 96 



Clovers, Why Failing for Honey 97 



STRAY STR A\\'S 98 



Alfalfa Honey, Variation in 98 



Scale-hive in Apiary 98 



Wintering, Dr. Miller on 98 



Comb Honey, Price of 98 



S 1 FT I N ( 4 S 99 



Sawdust V. Planer Shavings 99 



Windbreaks, Value of 99 



Glass for Shipping-cases 99 



Alsike Clover for Drouth 99 



Feeding Bees in Open Air 99 



Sage, Destruction of 99 



Wli3,(lc for IJggs .... 99 



BEE-KIOEPING IN t'he' SOUTHWESt! ! ! !iOO 



Bees and Chickens 100 



Beginning with Bees 100 



Bee-keeping in California 101 



Price of Honey in Los Angeles 101 



Hive, the George 101 



Compensation for Bees Destroyed 101 



California State Association 101 



CONVIORSATK )NS W^ITH DOOLITTLE. . . .102 



Keeping Lots of Bees 102 



Cotton for Smoker Fuel 102 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 103 



Bees and Poultry in Florida 103 



Inspection of Bees 103 



Truck-farming 103 



System in Bee-inspection 104 



Florida Poultry Farm, Large 104 



Ducks in Florida 105 



Bees and Squabs 109 



Bees and Poultry in a City 110 



Bees, Chickens, and Ducks Ill 



Skunk, Trapping 112 



Skunk, Catching a Tame One 113 



Bees and Poultry on a Back Lot 114 



Poultry and Bees 115 



Bee-keeper's Reminiscence 116 



Flies and their Larvce for Poultry 116 



HEADS OF (IRA IN 117 



Frame to Put in Foundation 117 



Cold Weather in California 117 



Case's Nucleus-frame 117 



Bees with Long Tongues 117 



Prolit from Forty Chickens 118 



Winter Treatment of Foul Brood 118 



Chickens I'^atlng Bees 118 



Eggs All in one Basket — 118 



Trickey Plan with Foul Brood 118 



Potatoes Frozen in Michigan 118 



Caucasian Brood in January 118 



OUR HoMl':s 119 



Law. Non-enforcement of 119 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 120 



