GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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E. R. HOOT A. I. ROOT H. H. ROOT J. T. CALVERT 



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Contents for September 1, 1912 



EDITORIAL 538 



Tenement Hires 538 



STRAY STRAWS 540 



Bees Stinging Drones 540 



Bees Recognize Color 540 



Bees and Berries 540 



iBees Carrying Foul Brood 540 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 540 



Nectar from Orange 541 



Foul-brood Inspector Removed 541 



.Queen-breeders, Slow 541 



NOTES FROM CANADA 542 



Bad Season in Illinois 542 



•Clover in Ontario 542 



Honey Crop in Canada 542 



Spraying Trees in Bloom 542 



Warm Weather in Canada 542 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 543 



Season in Colorado 543 



Spraving for Leaf-roller 543 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 544 



Bees Tearing Down Queen-cells 544 



Stings for Rheumatism 544 



General Correspondence 545 



Candy Without Honey 545 



Lime in Cellars 546 



Wintering in Kansas 547 



Leaves for Packing Hives 547 



Packing Bees on Summer Stands 548 



Cellar Wintering 549 



Wintering Outdoors 550 



Winter Cases for Several Hives 554 



Winter Fence for Summer 556 



Granulation of Sweet-clover Honey 556 



Wintering in Indiana 556 



Temperature of a Hive 558 



Wintering in Winter Cases 559 



Wintering, Britton on 560 



Lesser Wax-moth 560 



HEADS OF GRAIN 561 



Packing-case with Sloping Sides 561 



Extension Wheelbarrow 561 



Feeding, Profitable 562 



Storm-door, Cheney's 562 



Rock Candy a Failure 563 



Plea for Cellar Wintering 563 



Paper for Packing Hives 563 



Outdoor Wintering 564 



Empty Super over Brood-chamber 564 



Concrete Blocks Under Hives 564 



OUR HOMES 565 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 568 



Alfalfa, Cultivation of 568 



Frauds, Treatment of 569 



HEALTH NOTES 570 



Misbranding 570 



Pokeroot 570 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 571 



TEMPERANCE 572 



Liquor and Railroad Men 572 



