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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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BY J±- I- ROOT & CO. 



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How to Conduct an Apiary 121 



Uniting colonics 1-1 



Primary Department 122 



Brood rearing 122 



I 'oolittle's Report 123 



( mv < >\vn Apiary 123 



Division boards • 123 



Bees ami things awav over the water 124 



Honey resources awl Bee-keepers of the Shen- 

 andoah Valley 124 



Flying bees in confinement 125 



Pollen and brood 125 



Editorial 126 



"Flying bees under Glass*' 126 



Making a hot-bed 1'or bees 1-27 



Honev Column 



Report of Adam Grimm 



Humbugs and Swindles 



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Why do bees gnaw down Queen cells i 

 Why do the hives smell sour?... 

 Moving bees for fall pastureage. 



Blue Thistle 



Cat nil i Honey 130 



old carpet for Quilts 130 



Want of pollen in winter 130 



Are "dollar Queens" inferior? 1*2 



Box honey 132 



Losing Queens while extracting: 1*2 



