Gleanings in Bee Culture 



(Slramngs m S^^ Culture 



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



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



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



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EDITORLVL 



Cover Picture 



Extracted v. Comb Honey 



Retrospect for 1911 



SIFTIN'GS r 



Power for Saws 



Brown Sugar for Feeding 



Buckwlieat Bulletin 



Winter Nests 



Alfalfa. Bees on Per Mile — 



Wax-moth Larvii' 



Bottling Honey 



Liquid Dropped by Bees 



Bulk Comb Honey in the North 



BEK-KEEPIX(; IX THE SOUTHWEST.. 



Honey v. Other Sweets 



Keeping More Bees 



Apple-tree liears Honey and Apples 



bi<:e-kki<:p[X(! in California 



strychnine for Skunks 



Why Bees Desert Supers 



Bees Fly Long Distances 



Sage Ranges Doomed 



Queer Things About Bees 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . 



Rearing the Best i^ueens 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 



Flowers, Influence of 



Bee-keeping on the Appalachicola 



Propolis, to Remove 



lAicille Johnson Showing Bees 



Queens, Clipped and I'nclipped 



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Severin"s Honey and Wax Separator 



Continental Europe 



Modern students of Anatomy 



Section of Bee 



Press-in-comb Cage 



Hives and Boxes, to Nail 



Herlong. R W 



Creosote Oil for Hives 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



Success — a Poem 



Langstroth v. Jumbo Depth 



Italians, Tvvo-banded 



Wintering Colonies Light in Stores. . . 

 American and European Foul Brood. 



Honey in Cooking 



Hard Candy for Cold Weather 



Bees, Sad Experience with 



Pyrographic Outfit for Foundation,.. . 



OUR HOMES 



Ministers, Recreant 



Redbugs 



HEALTH NOTES 



Robbing the Sick 



Surgical Extortion 



Diet. Meat and Vegetable 



Physical Culture •■... 



Hydrophobia 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 



Chickens, Starting with 



Ducks Mating in Shallow Water 



Indian Runiier Ducks 



Pullets, to Get 



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