Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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EDITORIAL 259 



Cobs lor Packing Material 259 



Bee Inspection in Connecticut 259 



Statistics, Keliabllity of 259 



Honey as a Medicine 260 



Bulletin on Sweet Clover 260, 261 



Fraudulent Packing of Honey 260 



Comb Honey Advocated 260 



Living on Honey and Water 261 



Winter Losses 261 



STRAY STRAWS .262 



Right Side of a Hive 262 



Cheney Hive-tool 262 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES.. 263 



Lime for Clovers 263 



Free Sugar 263 



Bungalows for Beekeepers 263 



NOTES FROM CANADA 264 



Queen-rearing Without Grafting 264 



Inbreeding Not Harmful 264 



What are Hybrids? 224 



Frames Deeper than Langstroth 264 



C'ONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. . ..265 



Work, Profitable. 265 



Extracting Raw Honey 265 



GENER.\L CORRESPONDENCE 266 



Making Increase 266 



Swarming, Cause of 267 



Rheumatism and Stings 267 



Green Flowers of America 267 



Making One's Own Hives 269 



Upward Ventilation and Thick Honey 270 



Swarm in a Cherry Tree 271 



Carniolans Not Swarmers 271 



Expert Handling a Swarm 272 



Do Bees Hear? 273 



Swarm in a Peach Tree 274 



Increase, Extra Rapid 275 



August Swarm, Determined 277 



Pryal's Swarm-catcher 277 



Aspinwall Principle on Ordinary Hive 278 



Winter Losses. Making up 279 



Five Swarms from One 280, 281 



Putting on Supers 281 



Mistakes in Beekeeping 283 



Swarm that did not Cluster 284 



HEADS OF GRAIN.. 285 



Swarms issue Early 285 



Clipped t iueens Defended 285 



Finding Where Swarm Came from 285 



Italians Swarm Excessively 285 



Ohio Convention Report 286 



OUR IIOMKS 287 



Seeds, Warranting 287 



Criticism 287 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 288 



Buckwheat In Florida 289 



Potatoes in Back Yard 289 



Early Potatoes 290 



Early Joe Apple 290 



