GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Jan. 15 



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



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Contents for January 15, 1911 



EDITORIAL 29 



Honey-cooking Recipes .29 



Candied Comb Honey 29 



Moving Pictures of Apiaries 30 



Capping-melters 30 



Grading of Comb Honey 30 



Explosion of Beeswax .31 



STRAY STRAWS 32 



Section Honey, Keeping 32 



Honey, Extracted, Name for 33 



Stimulating, Time for 33 



Beet Sugar for Wintering 33 



SIFTINGS 34 



Bees as Fertilizers 34 



Heather Honey in Great Britain 34 



Swarming Impulse, Removing 34 



Chicken ICats l)rones 34 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST :35 



Ordering Early 35 



Fires in the Apiary , 35 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 36 



Books for Beginners 36 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 37 



Second-hand Cans 37 



Arrangement of Bait Sections 38 



Honey-strainers Done Away with 39 



Queen-excluders Necessary 40 



Robbing, to Stop 40 



Motherwort for Honey 40 



Motor for Extracting 41 



Extracting with Electricity 42 



Moving an Apiarian Laboratory 42 



Bee-keeping Illustrated 43 



Bee-cellar, Towusend's 44 



Bee-keeping in New Mexico 45 



Foundation, to Fasten in Sections 46 



Prices of Honey 47 



Peddling Honey 48 



Eastern New York Convention 48 



Metcalfe O. B 49 



Bee-keeping in Mexico 50 



Wild Aster 50 



HEADS OF GRAIN 51 



Nuclei, to Strengthen 51 



Honey, Producing Comb and Extracted 51 



Colonies Desert in the Fall 51 



Entrance, Size of for Winter 51 



Alexander I^lan for Foul Brood 52 



Bees Dying in a Cigar-box 52 



Cocoons in Old Combs 52 



Somerford Plan for Nuclei 52 



Alfalfa in Texas 52 



HEALTH NOTES 53 



Meals in Open Air 53 



Two Meals a Day 53 



Going Without Supper 54 



Fletcher on Eating. 54 



Two Acres, Profit from 54 



Automobiles 55 



Temperance in Arizona 56 



