Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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EDITORIAL 123 



Honey. Value of 123 



Honey Bread 123 



Conveution at Springfield 123 



Wintering at Medina 124 



Windbrealis 124 



Size of Entrances 125 



Entrances Facing North 125 



STRAY STRAWS 126 



(ilass for Sliipping-cases 126 



NOTES FROM CANADA 127 



Snow at Entrances 127 



Drastic California Law 127 



A\'inter in Canada 127 



BKKIvEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES.. 128 



Clipping. Does it Pay? 128 



Beekeei>ing in College Courses 128 



Census and Colorado Beekeeping 128 



Poultry and Bees 128 



BKKICEKPING IN CALIFORNIA 129 



California Convention Report 129 



C(J\VFRSAT10NS WITH DO LITTLE 130 



Double-walled Hives for the South 130 



GKXFRAL CORRKSPOXDFXCE 131 



Paper-covered Hives 131 



Work lor the National to do 132 



Failure in Cuba ■. i:^2 



Beekeeper, Contrary 133 



Beekeeping in Chicago 136 



Preventing Swarming Impulse 137 



Tennessee Beekeepers and Fruitgrowers . . . 139 



Sweet (, 'lover, to ( irow 140 



Eastern New York Beekeepers 141 



Eggs, Hatching of Bee 141 



Transferring Bee Eggs 142 



Sleep of Bees 142 



Pollen in Cells 142 



The Bee— Poem 142 



HEADS OF GRAIN 143 



Foul Brood In Iowa 143 



Clipped i.Jueens a Nuisance 143 



Shipping Bees to South America 144 



California Foul-brood Law 144 



Paper to Wrap Hives 144 



Oklahoma Report 144 



Clipping Makes No Difference 145 



Bees Separating Water from Syrup 145 



Bees and Maple Sap 146 



Extracted Pays Better than Comb 146 



Sections, to Dampen 146 



Honey for Headache 146 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 147 



Fireless Cookers and Brooders 147 



Grape Fruit for Rheumatism 148 



KIND WORDS 148 



Bees and Righteousness 148 



