GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Contents for September 15, 1912 



EDITORIAL 573 



Visit from Mr. Kabluliov 575 



Surface's New Bee Boolf 575 



STRAY straws 576 



Numbering Hives 576 



Foul Brood, Eifect on Queen 576 



Terrv on Honev 576 



SIFTINGS 577 



Hybrid, Wrong Use of Word 577 



Smoke for Swarms 577 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 578 



Bees and Strawberries 578 



Sage Worm of California 578 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 579 



Wliy Swarms Cluster 579 



Honey Reports 579 



Automobiles for Beeekepers 579 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOITTLE . . 580 



Preparing for Winter 580 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 581 



Candor Among Beemen 581 



Moving Bees 1000 Miles 582 



Beekeeping and Sclioolteaching 584 



Dead Bees in Honey 584 



Anthony Leaf Hive 585 



Short Cuts in Production 591 



Celery in Florida 592 



Wright Brothers 593 



Florida Home 593 



Old English Beekeepers 595 



Imperial Co. Bee Law 597 



Missouri Convention 598 



Transfer, How to 598 



HEADS OF GRAIN 599 



Twin Mating Nuclei 599 



Balling, Cause of 599 



Honev-bovmd Brood-nest 599 



Swelling from Bee-sting 599 



Robbers Attack a Nucleus 600 



Middlemen 600 



Variations in Color ' 600 



Banats 600 



Hive Numbers of Rubberoid 601 



Swarm with Three Virgins 601 



Bee-stings for Gout 601 



Death of W. M. Parrish 602 



Sweet Clover on Wheat Ground 602 



Four to Five Supers per Colony 602 



Moving Bees in Loose Hives 602 



Smoke for Swarms 602 



Lizards Eeating Bees 602 



OUR HOMES 603 



Government Care of Fruit 605 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 606 



Early Potatoes 606 



Sweet Clover 606 



Basswoods for Honey 607 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 608 



