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

 ___ and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



PUISILIfSIIED MONTHLY, AT MEDIIVA., OHIO, 



BY A. I. ROOT & CO. 



Vol,- II 



S*opt. 1874. 



INUv.1) 



In the Preparation of this Journal the following arc the Principal Periodicals Consulted : 

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l@©a&@p®p% 'Mm^msmi.mw® zing- 



WWb%%i&WMM, Ww>m ^©VPSiSl* Mrs. Tapper. 



Wmm W©1PM« A. F. Moon & Co. 



[Also Bound Volumes of the former since I860, and Files of all other Bee Journals that have been 



Published in America.] 



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



OOIVTEIVTS 



Page. 



How to Conduct an Apiary 97 



Getting ready tor winter 97 



Our Own Apiary 98 



How to make Colonies 98 



Great number of Queen cells 98 



Introducing Virgin Queens 99 



Brood or Eggs for Queen Rearing 99 



Primary Department 100 



Transferring 100 



Capital needed to start an Apiary .100 



Out door wintering in -'Long Hives" 100 



Letter to Novice 101 



Two story versus Horizontal hives 101 



To prevent honey candying 102 



Editorial 102 



Straw hives 



( >ur universal Feeder 



Italians and Red Clover.. . 



About our Clover seed 



Honey Column 



Last appeal for box honey 

 Two story double width hives 



Heads of Grain 



"Luck" in wintering ... 



Color of Imported Queens 



Starch for Bees 



Davis 1 Transposition Process 



Introducing Queen 



What to do with the sngar 



Sryup in the spring 



