GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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Contents for May 15, 1916 



editorial 381 



Honey Butterscotch 381 



Bees Profitable in Canada 381 



Yellow Annual Sweet Clover 381 



Photos for Reproduction 382 



Bee Inspection in Connecticut 382 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 383 



Near Honey 383 



Beekeeping in the South 383 



Outvards, liOcating 383 



Sterility of Sweet Cherries 384 



Bees and Fireblight 384 



STRAY STRAWS . .' 386 



Limiting Beeyards by Law 386 



Bee-moth, the Wee 386 



SIPTINGS 387 



beekeeping IN CALIFORNIA 388 



Honev flow, a Disastrous 388 



FLORIDA SUNSHINE 389 



Bee Flora of Florida 389 



beekeeping IN THE SOUTHWEST . .390 



Forcing Honey into Supers 390 



Time to Move Bees 391 



COJ^VERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. .392 



Natural Swarming 392 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 393 



Hol)by for Girls -393 



Bee in a California Bonnet 395 



Starting with Late Swarm 397 



Boy's Start with Bees 398 



Clergymen as Beekeepers 399 



Distance Bees Fly 400 



Location of Out-apiaries 401 



Camera, a Glimpse thru 402 



Prevention of Swarming 404 



Notes from Holland 407 



Porto Rican Beekeepers 409 



Queen-rearing for Beginners 412 



Combs Built Outdoors 414 



HEADS OP GRAIN 415 



Sections, Best Size of 415 



Froth on Honey 415 



Mice in Hives 416 



Success Follows Failure 416 



Division-boards Not Wanted 41G 



Bees, Reviving when Chilled 416 



OUR HOMES 417 



Death of Mrs. E. J. Grav 417 



Matches, Invention -of 418 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 419 



Collards, Georgia 419 



Sakurijima Radish 419 



Sweet Clover for Stock 420 



TEMPERANCE 421 



Kansas and Prohibition 421 



Temperance in Birmingham 421 



