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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUETURE 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E. R. ROOT 



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J. T. CALVERT 



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Contents for August 15, 1916 



editorial 709 



Bees and Blight 709 



Field Meet at Medina 709 



Color of White-clover Pollen 710 



Isle of Wight Disease in Ohio 711 



STRAY STRAWS 713 



Clipping Queens to Avoid Swarming. . . . .713 



SIPTINGS ■ 711 



Bees, Informing Owner of Death 714 



.\dvertising, Exaggeration in 714 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST. 71 5 



Texas Bee Associations 715 



FLORIDA SUNSHINE 716 



Distance Bees Fly 716 



Bee-martins D:»fended 716 



BEEKEEPING IN C.VLIFORNI.V 718 



Selection of Breeders 718 



Legislation, Dangerous 718 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE .719 



Value of Drones 719 



GEInTERAL CORRESPONDENCE 720 



Isle of Wight Disease, New 720 



Nosema vs. Isle of Wight Disease 721 



Bee Paralysis 721 



Distance Bees Fly 722 



Drones, Prevention of 723 



Bitter Honey from Bitterweed 724 



Queen cell l^roduction 725 



Pollen from White Clover 727 



New Zealand, Season in 728 



Bees in Australia Gum-tree 729 



Flood in North Carolina 730 



Flood Losses in Florida 730 



Blunders of Last Season 731 



Camera, Work with 733 



Nur.se Bees and Swarming 736 



Straight Combs without Foundation 736 



Fequeening Treated Colonies 738 



Swarm Prevention in Comb-honey Apiaries 738 



Beekeeping on St. John's River 739 



Introducing Queens in Queen-cell 740 



HEADS OF GRAIN 741 



Bee Candy for All Climates 742 



C ipping without Touching Queen 713 



Drones, Device to Destroy 743 



Supers, to Disinfect 744 



Eggs that Fail to Hatch 744 



Bees Drifting to Wrong Hive 745 



YellO'W-jackets 746 



Queens, Two in a Cell 746 



OUR HOMES 747 



Patriotism, True and False 75 ) 



TEMPERANCE 752 



HEALTH NOTES 753 



HIGH-PRESSURE GxVRDENING 755 



Corn-field of 500 Acres. 755 



