Or how to Realize the Most Money with tha Smallest Expenditure of Capital 

 and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



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How to Conduct an Apiary. '27 



Can we agree on a Standard Frame 28 



Can we agree on a Standard Hi vk 28 



Pruning the Grape Vines 28 



Raising Bees in a "hot bed" 27, 28 



Spring Feeding 28 



Artificial Pasturage 28 



Alsike Clover 29 



Tall Hives for wintering .29 



Dadant's Divisible Qnlnby Frames 29 



Foot power Buzz saw, for Hive making 32 



Depository of Blasted Hopes 32 



Reports Kncouraging 32 



Shall we Clip Queens Wings ? 32 



Humbugs and Swindles 32 



Pane. 

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Melting Candied Honey 



Heads of Grain ' . 33 



About lh 30, 35 



Honey Column 33 



Catnip as a honey plant 34 



Can Bees be kept in a City?.., 31 



IlevleW of the Bee Journals 35 



Bee Journals and Punctuality 35 



Concerning Problem So. 19,'. 28, 34 



"Latest Intelligence" Corner.. 35 



■Wintering 35 



Si. to Queens, >.".<; 



Who will rear Q teem in 1 1 1 - - South.,,, ,3fi 



Single story versus Two story 29. 3tf 



Quiaby's Son Swarming Hive....... ...3(5 



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