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Title: Gleanings in Bee Culture, Vol. III. No. 3

Author: Various

Editor: A. I. Root


Release date: May 3, 2019 [eBook #59427]

Language: English

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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE

Or how to Realize the Most Money with the Smallest Expenditure of Capital and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY, AT MEDINA, OHIO,
 
BY A. I. ROOT & CO.
Vol. III March, 1875. No. 3
In the Preparation of this Journal the following are the Principal Periodicals Consulted:

American Bee Journal. Clarke, and Mrs. Tupper.

Bee-Keeper’s Magazine. King.

Bee World. A. F. Moon & Co.

[Also Bound Volumes of the former since 1860, and Files of all other Bee Journals that have been Published in America.]
American Agriculturist,
Prairie Farmer,
Rural New Yorker,
Country Gentleman,
Southern Farmer,
Scientific American.

CONTENTS:

Page.
Remarks on in-door wintering 25
Our own Apiary 25
How bees behave in cold weather 27
Report from L. C. Root 27
Quinby hive 27
Why do our bees die? 27
Home made New Ideas etc. 28
Double width versus two story 28
Sawdust for contracting entrances 28
Dimensions of frames etc. 28
A Novel Idea in Wintering etc. 29
Half inch, versus double walls 29
Section Honey boxes 29, 32
Double wall hives etc. 30
Honey Column 31
Humbugs and Swindles 31
Reports Encouraging 31
Basswood: Starting a plantation 32
How to fly bees in a room 32
Is it the fault of our Queens? 33
Reports from cold frames 33
Leather for quilts 33
Strait combs 33
Adulteration of honey 33
Movable portico 34
Buzz Saws 34
Candying of honey 34
Deep frames 35
Imported Queens 36
Sunflowers 36