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

 and Labor in tfre Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



PUBLfsHED MONTIILY, A'T^MEI>iiVA7oHio, 



BY A. I. ROOT & CO. 



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Mar.* 1*7 4. 



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In the Preparation of this Journal (lie following are the Principal Periodicals Consulted : 



A^&MW^iM-^M, H'©© fJ^Q-liJPXiaJU' Clarke. 



]B©©sM©<© ( p©I?*i8 M'ili^ftJSiliL©® King. 



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[Also Bound Volumes of the forme)-' since 1S60, and Files of all other Bee Journals thai, have been 



Publishal i)i America.] 



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"Novice's Wind-Mill Print," Medina, Ohio. 



COlVTEIVTSs 



How to Conduct an Apiary 49 



Can we agree on a Standard Frame 50 



Can we agree on a Standakh Hive 50 



Both Sides of the Question 52 



Raising Bees in a "hot bed" 52, 53 



Our Own Apiary 52 



Cheap Paint for Hives 53 



Swarming Out 53 



How to Winter 100 Colonies etc 54 



Basket for carving Combs 52 



Qneen Cages. ." 54, 5(5 



Depository of Blasted Hopes ...54 



Reports Kncouraging 51 



Sugar Syrup, versus Honey for Wintering ... .55 

 Humbugs and Swindles n 



Page. 



Manure on the Brain 56 



Heads of Grain 57 



About Us - 52, 53 



Pollen 53 



A Piece About Robbing '. 57 



C hangi»g T wo Story to Horizontal Hives 50; 



Review of the Bee Journals 54 



Bee Journals and Punctuality 54 



Problem No. 21..... 52 



Feeding in the Open Air 58 



Wintering ; . . . 54 



81.00 Queens Back Cover. 



Who will rear Queens in the South " " 56 



Single story versus Two story 50, 51 



"Roll of Honor" 59 



