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. Scholl, G. M. Doolittle, Wesley 



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



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editorial 675 



Windbreaks for JJees 675 



Rope to Haul Bee-wagon 675, 682 



Feeding Sy run Late in Fall 675 



Honey in Cooking 676 



Cereal Coffee 676 



Ripening Honey 676 



Honey-pump in Extracting 676 



Shipping-cases 677 



Hives. Trickey on Size of 677 



STRAY STRAWS 678 



Cork Bad for Packing 678 



Glass for Shipping-cases 678 



Fruit with Other Food 679 



Italians and Foul Brood 679 



SI FT1NG8 680 



Temperature for Comb Honey 680 



Barrels for Apples 680 



Bee-keeping in California 681 



Black Sage. Blossoming of 681 



Two Queens to a Hive 681 



Hives, Size of 681 



Black Brood in California 681 



BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 682 



Mailing Samples of Foul Brood 682 



Prices of Honey 682 



Zinc, Perforated, Not Necessary 682 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. .. .683 



Best Hive 683 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 684 



Advertising Honey 684 



Bee-keeper's Winter Work 685 



Bees Crippled by Moth-vrorms. , 



Santa Clara Valley, California 



Muscles of the Bee 



Comb-carrying Cases 



Extracting-outtit, Ideal 



Outside Wintering of Bees 



Fence around Apiary 



Time Youne Queens Emerge 



Salt River \'alley, Arizona 



Paste for Labels on Tin 



Moths and Crickets , 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



Frame-spacer, Snowden's 



No Swarms, Cause of 



Value of a Drawn Comb 



Metal-roofed A ir-spaced Cover 



California Foul-brood Law 



Nine Combs in Eight-frame Hive 



Burlap Mats for Hive-covers 



Combs out of Hive, Moths Destroy. . . 



Bees Steal Eggs 



Smoke, Effect on Odor of Stings 



Introducing. New Plan for 



Honey in Georgia 



OUR HOM KS 



Criminals, Treatment of 



Jukes Family — 



Edwards, .Jonathan, Descendants of. 



Aids to Memory 



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