GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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



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Contents for January 15, 1916 



EDITORIAL 45 Marketing, Problems Concerning 65 



Wintering at Medina 45 Feedinic Dry Sugar 65 



Bee-escapes 45 Wire Escape-board 66 



Honey Bread 45 Cameras and Photography 67 



United Honey-producers' Association 45 Sulphur for Bee Diesase 71, 73 



Winter Weather 46 Weather and Bse Disease 71, 73 



Isle of Wight Disease 47, 69, 70, 71 Bee Paralysis 72 



STRAY STRAWS 49 Nosema Apis 72 



Nectar, Distance Bees Find It 49 Oueens, Selling Poor Ones 74 



I+alians and Foul Brood 49 Honey in Louisiana 75 



Clover Pollen . . . .■ 49 New York Convention 76 



Temperature for Wintering 49 Escape-board, Handy 77 



SIFTINGS 50 Laving Workers Caught 78 



Clover as a Honey-yielder 50 HEADS OF GRAIN 79 



Kerosene to Stop Robbing 50 Wintering on Two Sets of Combs 79 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST. . .51 Boneset 79 



Size of Honey-packages 52 Queens, Introducing 79 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. .53 Hives Carried in Automobile 80 



Preserving Combs 53 Wintering in Virginia 80 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 54 Bees Dving in Winter 80 



Quadruple Winter Cases 54 OUR HOMES 81 



Foul Brood, Various Kinds 57 Flies a Nuisance 81 



Beekeeping in Hawaii 58 Tramp Prol)lem 82 



Chicago and Northwestern Meeting 60 POULTRY DEPARTMENT 83 



Wintering Bees in Supers 61 Poultry in Florida 83 



Hives, Uncommon Kinds 62 Florida, Questions about 84 



Smoke Plan to Introduce 63 HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 85 



Ontario Bee Convention 64 Apples in the Northwest 85 



