GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Contents for March 1, 1911 



EDITORIAL 121 



Spraying Trees in Bloom 121 



Simmins' Method of Shifting Bees 121, 132 



Comb-honey Canard 121 



Boards, Shrinkage of 121 



Cross-partitions in Shipping-cases 122 



Sweetening Railroad Men 122 



Convention at Cincinnati 123 



Confining Bees During Spraying 123 



STRAY STRAWS 124 



Reciprocity with Canada 124, 125 



Disturbing Brood-nest in Winter 124 



NOTES FROM CANADA 125 



Hogs in Apiary 125 



Hives. How to Carry 125 



BEE-KEEPIXG AMONG THE ROCKIES..126 



Beet Sugar v. Cane 126 



Colorado Convention 12fi 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. . . .128 



Setting out Bees, Time for — 128 



Florida for Bee-keeping 129 



European Foul Brood 130 



Extracting During Honey-flow 133 



Winter Nest v. Combs 134, 135 



Selling Honey 136 



Bee-keeping for Beginners 137 



Bees Necessary in an Orchard 139 



Beautifying the Apiary ' 139 



Bee-keeping in Mexico 142 



Adjustable Foundation-cutter 144 



Bee-keeping as a Hobby 144 



Advertising Honey. . 146 



Instinct of Bees 148 



Virginia. Conditions in 148 



HE.\DS OF GRAIN 149 



Moisture in a Hive 149 



Red-clover Bees 149 



Location of Hives in Pasture 149 



Pouder"s Plan to Liquefy Honey 149 



Sour Smell around Hives 149 



Alexander Plans Criticised 150 



Black Animals, Stinging of 150 



Feeding tiranulated Honey at Entrance — 150 



Separators, How to Make 150 



Bees Clustering below Frames 151 



Bees in a Quart 151 



Automobile in Apiary 151 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 152 



Chickens in Florida 152 



Sulphur for Chickens 153 



Fleas. Stick-tight 154 



Sand Flies. 154 



Controlling Sex of Fowls 154 



Burbank and Wonderberry 154 



Drugs, Use of 154 



Yougart, Use of as a Drug 155 



Oxydonor 155 



Oxygenator 155 



Electropoise 155 



.Shoes Spoiled in Wet Grass 156 



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