Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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



Editor Editor Home Dept. Ass't Editor Business Mgr. 



Department Editors:— Dr. C. C. Miller, J. E. Crane, Louis H. SchoU, G. M. Doollttle, Wesley 



Foster, J. L. Byer, Mrs. H. G. Acklin. 



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STRAY STRAWS 484 



Dark Honey, Value of 484 



Separators Boiled in Lye 484 



Honey in Butter 484 



American Foul Brood in Marengo 484 



Robbers, to Circumvent 484 



SIFTINGS 483 



Drone Comb, how Made ,485 



Cases of ("orrugated Paper 485 



Farewell to W. Z. Hutchinson 485 



BEE-KEEPIXG in the .SOUTH WEST.... 486 



Ripening Honey on Hives 48fi 



Chickens in the Apiary 488 



Bees and Poultry 486 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. . . .487 



Comb Honey, to Keep 487 



Powell Gravity .Strainer 487 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 488 



Tests for Beeswax — 488 



Capping-melters 481) 



Queen-cells, Effect on Swarming 490 



Advertising Honey 490 



Foul Brood in California 491 



Apiculture in New Zealand 491 



Requeening. New Plan for 492 



Bee keeping in Florida 493 



Queens Raised under DifFiculties 495 



Regrafting 495 



Mormon >Iating-hive 495 



Age of (Jueens and Swarming 497 



Young Queens, to Get 498 



Model British Apiary 499 



Automobile Trailer 



Sweet Clover with other Crops. . . 



Glucose, Feeding 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



Feeding for Winter 



Swarms, Dividing into Nuclei 



Queen Fertilized in Hive 



Buckwheat, to Grow 



Laying Workers, to Remove 



Prairies Clover 



Beeswax Explosion, Cause of . . . 



Shipping Bees in Winter 



Massachusetts Bee Convention. . . 



Bee-keeping in Florida 



Foul Brood, to Treat 



Spraying a Swarm 



King-birds 



Killing Drones a Sign of Drouth. 



OUR HOMES 



Treatment of Imbeciles 



Profit on Goods 



HEALTH NOTES 



Postum Cereal Coffee 



Cook's Coffee-berry 



Wiley, II. W., on Drugs 



Cuticura . . ., 



TEM PKR.\NCE .... 



Express Companies and Liquor. . 



Temperance in Louisiana 



Heavy Fine for Ijiquor-seller 



Sunday-school Man and Brewer., 

 Condition Powders 



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