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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



JUNE, 1917 



Editorial 427 



Success after Failure E. R. Root 433 



Breed from the Best Dr. C. C. Miller 436 



Drone-cells One Side, Worker the Other Dr. C. C. Miller 438 



Can This be Done? The Editors 439 



Conversations with Doolittle G. M. Doolittle 440 



Letters from a Beekeeper '3 Wife " Mary ' ' 441 



Concrete Workshop and Honey-House T. J. Riggs 441 



Fruit and Vegetables Canned in Honey Elizabeth Little 443 



A Large Swarm-catcher J. H. J. Hamelberg 444 



Screened Openings in Floor Board G. T. Whitten 445 



What to Do with Swarms Galore D. J. Blocher 446 



Bees, Boys, and War R. F. D. 449 



To Find the Hive the Swarm Came From Geo. W. Strangways 449 



Instantaneous Increase J. M. Donaldson 450 



No Swarming in a Swarm-mad Locality D. Pride 451 



Stray Straws Dr. C. C. Miller 452 



Siftings J. E. Crane 453 



Our Food Page Stancy Puerden 454 



Beekeeping as a Side Line Grace Allen 455 



Around the Office M. A. O. 456 



Beginners ' Lessons H. H. Root 457 



Just News The Editors 460 



Gleaned by Asking E. R. Root 462 



Mother Bee Nursery Rhymes M. G. P. 463 



Gleanings from the Nortli, South, East, and West Dept. Editors 464 



Heads of Grain from Different Fields 470 



Our Homes, Health Notes, Gardening, Temperance A. I. Root 475-482 



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