Gleanings in Bee Culture 



CSl^amngs tn l^r Oltiltur^ 



E. R. ROOT 



Editor 

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



Editor Home Dept. Ass't Editor Business Mgr. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, J. E. Crane, Louis H. Scholl, G. M. Doolittle, Wesley 

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EDITORIAL • 



Five-banded Bees 



Honey Prospects 



Winter Losses 



I'ettit, S. T.. Death of 



Comb Honey, I'roduction of 



i^olling < >ueen-cage Candy 



STRAY STRAWS , 



Miller, Dr., on Automobiles 



Wind Affecting \\'intering 



SIFTIXCS 



Honey Markets, Crane on 



Wintering, Crane on . . . 



BEEICEEl'INd IN THE SOUTHWKST 



Magnetic Hammer 



Bulk ( 'omb Honey 



Cotton Honey 



BEEKEEl'IXC IX (CALIFORNIA 



Hives in Shade 



Bee-trees in ( 'alifornia 



California Foul-brood Law 



Cramps Caused by Honey 



COWKRSATIONS WITH DOOLIITLE, 



Increasing Colonies 



ilKNKRAL CORRKSPOXDENCE 



Comb Foundation. I'se of 



Early Brood-rearing 



Beekeeping at Mass. Ag. College , 



Removing Bees from Buildings 



Bees on a Comb , 



Beekeeping around Cincinnati , 



Sweet Clover on Waste Land — 



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Hand's Bottom-board for Foul Brood. 



Entrance Shade-board 



Italians and Caucasians 



Western Apiary in Winter 



Bees and Flowers 



Beekeeping in Bulearia 



Italians and Blacks in ( ieorgia 



Beekeeping in Kentucky 



Skunks at I lives 



Bees on a Truck Farm 



Queen, Abnormal 



Cellar Wintering 



Sowing Sweet Clover 



Feeder made of Four Jars 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



Cotton-seed Meal 



Transferring from Box Hives 



Screening Bees in Hives Disastrous... 



Bees Fly Eight Miles 



Feeder for Buckeye Hives 



Bottom-board for Ale.xander Feeder. . 



Rheumatism Cured by Stings 



\\'intering in ChaflF Hives 



Sweet ('lover in Kansas 



Two Scale Hives Xeeded 



.1 apanese Buckwheat Condemned 



Buckwheat, \'alue of 



Papayas of the South 



Tu rkeys and Ducks I'^at Bees 



POr LTR V DKPARTMEXT 



Minced Chicken 



Mustard for Laying Hens 



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