574 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E. R. ROOT A. 1. ROOT H. H. ROOT J. T. CALVERT 



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Contents for July 15, 1916 



EDITORIAL 581 " Fording " Comb-honey Outyards 604 



Net-weight Law 581 Bee-cluhs for Boys 604 



White Clover vs. Alsike .581 Insects and Fire Blight 60 



S'melting Companies of Canada 581 Insects and Fire Blight 605 



Honey-crop Conditions 582 Comb Honey in Out-apiaries 608 



Bee Paralysis, Bocock on 583 Poetry and Prose 609 



Bees and Blight 584 Advertising Honey 610 



STRAY STRAWS 585 Heading otif Swarming 610 



SIFTINGS 585 Ten-frame Hive as a Brood-nest 611 



Sweet Clover Not a Weed 586 HEADS OF GRAIN 612 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES. 587 Black Italian Queen a Freak 612 



Bees Prefer Old Combs 587 Swarm Refuses Hiving 613 



Climatic Conditioms and Honey 587 Skunks in Apiary 614 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST. .588 Honey in Mails 614 



Removing Surplus Honey 588 "ed-clover Bees 615 



Hives, Dovetailed, the Best 588 Barbed Wire in Hive-bottoms 615 



FLORIDA SUNSHINE 589 Pollen Ration Necessarv 616 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . .590 Sweet Clover in Pastures 616 



Chil'ed Bees 590 Beekeeper without Hands 616 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 591 OUR HOMES 617 



Cost of Honey Production 591 Warship, Cost of 618 



Queen-rearing, Easy 593 Shoemaker, Skeptical 618 



Bees for Students 595 Ladv Eglintine 619 



Honey, to Remove from Cappings 596 HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 62.'! 



Bees for Cleaning Comb 597 Sweet Clover in Kentucky 623 



Swarming Problem 599 Sweet Clover and Alfa'.fa 623 



Law of Swarming 600 TEMPERANCE 625 



Hints on Queen-raising ; 601 Saloon-keeper Heavily Sentenced 625 



Supers of Honey on Toboggan Slide 603 Drunkenness before Birth 626 



