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Page. 



How to conduct an Apiary 73 



Problem No 23 Cover 



What I have done 74 



Wire cloth division boards 74 



Water for bees 74, 78 



Suspended hives 74 



Quilts 75. 78 



Grape vines for shade 7(5 



Trellis lor grape vines 76 



"Primary" Department 76 



Our own' Apiary 77 



Introducing Queens '" 



How the moths nearly gol the hotter of us. ...77 



Quinby's new smoker 78 



Editorial ~° 



Page 



Blasted Hopes 79 



Does an Extractor pay ? 79 



Reports Encouraging 70 



"Elbow room" for the Queens 70 



Qiieen rearing No. 2 80 



Humbugs an 1 swindles 80 . 



From how far, will bees go home? 81 



Heads of Grain 81 



Value of litsle attentions 81 



Moving bees in the working season 81 



Locating an Apiary 81 



More about Straw mats 82 



Door-step to hives 83 



Shall we have a department tor box hive bee- 

 Kcepors ? 84 





