.IlLV, 1917 



G h K A NINO S J N li K E C U L T U R E 



501 



JULY 1917 



Editorial 509 



Bees in the Middle West E. E. Eoot 512 



Law-breaker a Public Benefactor Dr. E. A. Morgan 516 



The Maximum Crop of Honey Harold Horner 516 



The Clovers of Tennessee J. M. Buchanan 520 



We Have Not Done It The Editors 522 



Conversations with Doolittle G. M. Doolittle 523 



Letters from a Beekeeper 's Wife " Mary ' ' 524 



How I Cured European Foul Brood M. W. Harvey 525 



European Foul Brood, — How it Spreads R. F. Holtermann 526 



Bees Fly Fourteen Miles for Honey E. P. Stiles 526 



A Visitto Charles E. Stewart R. F. Holtermann 527 



Sprinkling the Loafers with Honey.' J. Ford Senipers 528 



Degenerating Apiaries E. G. Baldwin 529 



Svvfarm Prevention and Control P. C. Chadwiek 530 



Stray Straws Dr. C. C Miller 531 



Siftings J. E. Crane 533 



Beekeeping as a Sideline Grace Allen 534 



Our Food Page Stancy Puerden 536 



Our Neighbor 's Fields E. G. Baldwin 538 



Beginners ' Lessons H. H. Root 539 



Mother Bee Nursery Rhymes M. G. P. 543 



Gleanings from the North, South, East, and West Dept. Editors 544 



Gleaned by Asking E. R. Root 552 



Question and Answer Grace Allen 554 



Just News The Editors 555 



Our Homes, Gardening, Health Notes, Temperance A. I. Root 556-563 



Who 's Who in Apiculture 563 



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