766 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 September 1, 1916 



EDITORIAL 773 Bees Guided bv Scent 793 



King of Honolulu 773 Swarms Drifting from Box Hives 793 



Marking Net Weight 773, 810 Oswald St. John Gilbert 795 



Excluding Queens from Mails 773 Bee-trees with Top Ventilation 7P7 



Examination of Bee Assistants 774 Sections, 2-lb., in Standard Frames 798 



Honey-crop Conditions 774 Foundation, Need of 799 



H. A. Surface 774 Convention at Ontario College 800 



Diagnosing Colonies 775 Introducing with Honey 800 



Comb Honey, Eating Quality of 776 Job's Friends, Advice of 801 



STRAY STRAWS 777 Chicago Convention 803 



Queens, Daubing to Introduce 777 S"warm Prevention in Out-apiaries 804 



Swarming, Cause of 777 Sugar-fed Honev 805 



DIXIE BEE 779 Season in South Florida 806 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 779 Honev-plants of Paraguay 807 



Foul Brood in California 779 HEADS OF GRAIN . . ". 809 



Skunks, To Destroy 779 Bees Cleaning Cappings 809 



NOTES FROM CANADA 780 Bees. Ownership of , 810 



Crop of Honey in Canada 7-80 Field Day in Massachusetts 811 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES. 781 Workers," why Dwarfed 811 



Supering and Desupering 781 Cleaning Grooves in Frames 811 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . 782 OUR HOMES 812 



Middlemen, Use of 782 Electric Autos 811 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 783 Civic Reform Union 815 



Isle of Wight Disease 783 Florida, Advantage of 815 



Honey-money Makers 784 HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 81fi 



Banker and His Bees 788 Mulching with Sweet Clover 810 



Management of Out\ai<ls 789 Dust Mulch in Drouth 816 



Honey Production 790 TEMPERANCE 817 



