GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May 15 



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E. R. ROOT 



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Contents for May 15, 1911 



editorial 289 



Mortality of Bees in California 289 



Shipping-cases, Better Ones Wanted . . .290, 296 



Italians in the South 290 



Saccharin Barred 291 



Stewart Foul-brood Treatment 291 



SIFTINGS -293 



By ard's Foundation-fastener 293 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST. .. .294 



Bees and Poultry 294 



Armor against Bees 294 



Bee-keeping, Profitable in Quebec 294 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. . . .295 



Pollen in Brood-combs 295 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 296 



Death of Queen with Swarm 297 



Sections, when Capped Dark 297 



Extracted Honey 298 



Granulation of Bulk Honey 298 



Handling Bees 299 



National Honey Organization 299 



Bee-keeping for Beginners 300 



Loading Power Extractors 302 



Amateur's First Year 305 



Business Man Rears Queens 307 



Bee-keeping in Fldrida 308 



Foul Brood, None in Florida 309 



Sorghum vs. Sugar for Bees 309 



HEADS OF GRAIN 310 



Dividing in the Spring 310 



Comb Built on a Limb 310 



Empty Supers above Partly Filled Sections.310 



Comb Interfering with Introduction 311 



Care of Newly Hatched Queens 311 



Split Sections in Open top Holders 311 



Swarm. Cause of its Return 311 



Drouths in Florida 311 



OUR mOMES 312 



Liquor Traffic 312 



Drunken Schoolboys 312 



Boys' Corn Clubs 312 



Taft and the Corn Boys 313 



Rotten Eggs and Other Things 314 



Poultry Department 314 



Simplicity Hen's Nest 314 



PMreless Brooder 315 



Buttercup Fowls 316 



'Valentine Duck Book 317 



Indian Runner Ducks. '. 317 



Bermuda Grass for Chickens 317, 318 



H E A LTH NOTES 318 



Honey, Well-ripened 318 



Automobile Journal 318 



Thin Honey 318 



