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, 



JB Y J±. I- ROOT &: CO. 



Vol* MM 



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Ko. 12 



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

 J^J\JG%fiCilM le® ^CllOflttfliX® Clarke, and Mrs. Tapper. 



K©© WCT^IS® A. F. Moon & Co. 



[Also Bound Volume* of the former since HG\ and Files of all other Bee Journals that have been 



Published in America.] 



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How to Conduct an Apiary 133 



How to build a Wintering House 133 



Preparing Bees for out-door Wintering 134 



( lider deleterious to bees 135 



Tlie secret of getting surplus honey 135 



Bee-Kceping in California 135 



How to manage for box honey 135 



< hir own Apiary 136 



Housing bees for white- 136 



Experiments with bees under glass. .136, K'.T, L38 

 Remarks in regard to out-door wintering... 139 

 Experiments in regard to the Bee disease — 139 



Honev Column 139 



The great Honey crop from California 139 



Reports Encouraging 110 



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Bee-keepers of Onondaga ( !o., N. Y 140 



Implements, Devices and suggestions 140 



Tool for cutting winter passages 140 



How to secure strait combs every time 140 



Feeding meal in the fall 140 



Heads of Grain 141 



Spring swarming out and lack of pollen 141 



Raising Hemp lor pollen 142 



Flying bees in a room 142 



Golden Hod and Aster 142 



Universal Feeder 142 



Tent for extracting 142 



Problem No. 25 H.'i 



How to make a division board 143 



Wormwood for smoking bees 14.'5 



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