Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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



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EDITORIAL 513 



Glass for Shipping-cases 513 



Bees and Fruit 513 



Crop Conditions 513 



Miller's New Book 514 



Outdoor Feeding 514 



STRAY STRAWS 516 



Poultry Netting for Bee-fence 516 



Transferring Eggs 516 



Carbolic Acid for Robbers 516 



Pneumatic Queen-catcher 516 



Miller's Latest Feeder 516 



BEE-KKKFING AMONG THK ROCKIES. .517 



Honey Crop for 1911 517 



Bee-keeper and Inspector., 517 



Colorado Inspection Law 517 



Double-tier Cases 517 



NOTES FROM CANADA 518 



Odor of Foul Brood 518 



Extracting I^ight Honey Early 518 



Crop Failure of 1911 518 



Clover Killed 518 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. .. .519 



Age of Bees 519 



Drones, I>ife of 519 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 520 



Testing Purity of Beeswax 520 



Rendering Wax in Hatch Press 521 



(Observations on Queens 522 



Bee-ranges in I daho 523 



Successful Honey Salesman 523 



Difference in Bees in Introducing 524 



Bee-keeping in Florida . . .525 



California Sage 526 



Wheelbarrow for Apiary 527 



Texas Mesquite 530 



Grading Comb Honey 533 



Gravity Strainers and Thick Honey 534 



Laws Rendered Ineffective 535 



Italians the \\'orst Robbers 535 



Why Bees Clustered Out 535 



HEADS OF GRAIN 536 



Bee-keeiJing in Colorado 536 



Queen-sieve of Bottom-board 536 



Several Eggs in One Cell 536 



Bees and Smoke 537 



Tops of I r i ves Kept A\'arm 537 



Supers, to Separate 537 



Queen-excluders under Supers 5:^7 



Paris ( ireen on Cotton 537 



Copper \'essels for Syrup : 537 



Stores Consumed by a Colony 5:^7 



Bees Can Not Puncture Fruit 537 



NOTES ( >F TRAVEL 538 



Blackberry, New 5'i8 



Apple-orchard, Repp's 5;^ 



Corning lOgg-farm 540 



OUR HOM KS 541 



Skyrocket Periodicals 544 



Brewing Industry Recognized 544 



I'arcels Post 545 



Buckwheat 545 



Flying-machines 546 



Honey vs. Cane Sugar 546 



