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

 and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



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How to Conduct an Apiary 37 



Can we agree on a Standard Frame 38 



Can we agree on a Standard Hive 38 



Abreviations In Bee Correspondence 40 



Raising Bees in a "hot bed" 40, 41 



Our Own Apiary 40 



Strong Colonies 41 



Swarming Out 41 



A House for Meal Feeding 42 



Rye and Oats Preferred by the Bees 42 



Foot power Buzz saw, for Hive making 42 



Depository of Blasted Hopes 44 



Reports Encouraging 46 



How to Make a Wax Extractor 44 



Humbugs and Swindles 47 



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A Short Chapter on Poultry etc 45 



Heads of Grain 47 



About Us 42,46 



Honey Column 43 



Introduction of virgin Queens 43 



Changing Two Storv to Horizontal Hives 43 



Review of the Bee ."Journals 42 



Bee Journals and Punctuality 42 



Concerning Problem No. 20 44 



Shall We Build Combs or buy them ? 41 



Wintering 41 



Si. 00 Queens Back Cover. 



Who will rear Queens in the South " " 



Single story versus Two story 38, 39 



Quinby's Non Swarming Hiv'e 12 



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