August, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



581 



AUGUST 1917 



Editorial 589-592 



Selling Honey — Symposium 593-597 



Extracting oil a Trailer H. H. Boot 598 



Quality vs. Quantity Arthur C. Miller 600 



Conversations with Doolittle G. M. Doolittle 603 



Letters from a Beekeeper 's Wife " Mary ' ' 604 



Mj" Last Year's Experience in Beekeeping Geo. W.Adams 605 



Sunday Selling Susan R. Newcomb 605 



Swarming (Article No. 3) P. C. Chadwick 606 



Queen-Breeder Who Made Good Frank Fooshe 607 



Beekeepers' Section at Mass. Ag. College Josephine Morse 608 



Breed from the Best of the Best Strain C. E. Fowler 609 



What Shall We Do With Them? O. J. Jones 610 



Impossible to Keep to the Old Price Earl Seamans 610 



Some of Our Short Cuts G. J. Yoder 610 



Stray Straws Dr. C. C. Miller 612 



Siftings J. E. Crane 614 



Our Food Page Stancy Puerden 615 



Beekeeping as a Side Line Grace Allen 617 



Beginners ' Lessons H. H. Eoot 619 



Gleanings from the North. Soulh, East and West. . . .Dept. Editors 621-627 



Mother Bee Nursery Rhymes M. G. P. 628 



Gleaned by Asking". . . . .' E. R. Root 629 



Heads of Grain 632 



Just News The Editors 635 



Our Homes, Gardening, Health Notes, Temperance A. I. Root 638-644 



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