Or Iiow 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^ 



BY A.. I. ROOT & CO. 



Vol. II 



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Page. 



How to conduct an Apiary 109 



Ventilating Cellars 109 



Cultivation of Catnip as a hone)- plant 110 



The Hive Question 110 



The King Bird found guilty 110 



Our ( )\vn Apiary Ill 



Bees do not make honey 112 



Primary Department.. 113 



"Swarming" a grape vine 113 



Editorial " 114 



Bees and Cider 114 



Hon ey Column 114 



How to advertise Honey 114 



About Honey 115 



Flying bees under glass during winter 115 



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Pollen, its relation to brood-rearing 



Combs made by feeding, Cost of 



Problem No. 25 



Heads of Grain 



Disadvantage of two stories 



Losing Queens 



Late Fall Honey 



Are "Grandchildren" of a pure Queen 



ever black ? 118, 



Shipping bees South to winter 



Temperature«for Queen cells 



Unsealed stores 



Water for Bees 



Fertile workers 



Wintering bees in Long Hives 



