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

 and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, AT MEDINA, OHIO, 



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COIVTEIVTS: 



Page. 



How to conduct an Apiary 85 



How large shall we make our hives ? 85 



Care of honey after extracting 86 



Waxing barrels 86 



Our own Apiary 86 



'"Primary" Department 88 



Grape vines, training for shade 88 



A scene in the Apiary 88 



Answers to problems etc 89 



Shall Queens be reared from the egg? 89 



Can pollen be wintered out of the hive? 89 



Editorial 90 



Getting ready for winter 90 



Queens by mail 90 



Comb building; how to get ::!] worker comb.. 91 



Page. 



Problem No. 24 91 



Who buys honey 92 



Who has honey to sell 92 



Honev column 92 



Heads of Grain 93 



Report from an Apiary 93 : 



Early pasturage for bees 93 



Why pollen is lacking 93 



"Smothering" new swarms 94 



How to sell nice wax 94 



How to get the bees oft' the combs 94 



Extracted versus comb honey 95 



Freezing out the moth miller. 96 



Strait combs 96 



Eggs by mail 90, 95, 96 



