Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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J. T. CALVERT 



Business Mgr. 



E. R. ROOT A. I. ROOT H. H. ROOT 



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EDITORIAL 643 



Marian Harland on Honey 643 



Death of R. W. Herlong 643 



Importance of Selling Honey Early 643 



Can you find the liueen? 644 



Capping-melters Improved 645 



Wax-separators 645 



Sucking Honey from a Hive 645 



STRAY STRAWS 646 



Ants, to Destroy 646, 667 



Brown Sugar v. White 646 



Sulphur on Moth Eggs 646 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES. .647 



Sugar-beet Spray Kills Bees 647 



Bees and Fly-traps 647 



Baptizing Queens 647 



Glass in Shipping-cases 647 



Thrips on Alfalfa 647 



NOTES FROM CANADA 648 



Bees Moving Eggs 648 



Sugar, Price of in Canada 648 



Coal Oil in Smokers 648 



Queen-excluders Disliked 648 



Bees, Life of Late-hatched 649 



Ontario ( 'onvention 649 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE..: .650 



Smoking Bees 650 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 651 



Inbreeding 651 



Propolis, Origin of 652 



Honey, Soured 653 



Queens, Balling of 654 



Supersedure of Queens 654 



Three-frame Nucleus, Yield from 655 



Foul Brood, European 656 



Workshop. Cheap 658 



Wilson, Mrs. Margaret 659 



Eggs, are they ever Unfertile? 660 



Extracting-outfit, Portable 661 



Behavior of Bees 663 



Wintering on Summer Stand — 664 



Shipping-cases, Glass-front 665 



HEADS OF GRAIN 666 



After-swarm, Peculiar 666 



Sieve, Queen-finding 666 



Goldenrod for Honey 666 



Queens, Old, Leave Hive to Die 666 



Frames in Simplex Hive 667 



Italians v. Blacks 667 



Buckwheat Sown with Corn 667 



Automobile Accident 667 



OUR HOMES 668 



Lanham's Struggle 668 



Langstroth"s Old Home 670 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 671 



Forecasting Hens 671 



Simplicity Incubator 672 



Hens V. Incubators 673 



White Indian Runner Ducks 673 



A<ivertising on Reading-pages 673 



Indian Runner Ducks Sit 674 



Wright Brothers 674 



Flying-machines 674 



Flying without Power 574 



