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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Page. 



How to make a Queen cage Cover 



How to Conduct an Apiary 61 



When to Extract 61 



Comb Baskets 61 



Standard Hive and Frame 62 



Shall we allow Poultry in the Apiary? 63 



Problem No. 22 63 



Answer to Problem 21 63 



Our own Apiary 64, 65 



How to "Spring" 100 colonies without loss 65 



Combs and Honey from dead stocks 66 



One dollar Extractor 66 



Queen Rearing 67 



All About Smokers 68 



Artificial Swarming 68 



Page. 



Wormwood for smoking bees 68 



Heads of Grain 69 



Bees in Texas 69 



Straw mats. How to make them 69 



Corn Starch 69 



Triangular Frames 70 \ 



"Novice" Queens 70 



Remedy for bees killing their Queens 70 



Entrance Blocks 71 



A timely word in regard to pollen 72 



Open Air Feeding 70 



All about Tea-Kettle Feeders 72 



Roll of Honor Cover 



Who will rear Queens in the South ? 71 and " 

 Eggs for hatching 71 



