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Contents for January 15, 1913 



EDITORIAL 37 S. S. Alderman, of Florida 53 



Color of Italian Bees 37 Filling Orders for Queens 53 



Shipping Bees without Combs 37 Golden Bees Not Cross 54 



Windbreaks for Bees 38 Combined Bee-sheds a Nuisance 55 



STRAY STRAWS 40 Conditions for Out-apiaries 55 



Feeding Dry Cube Sugar 40 Bees Buried under Snow 57 



European Foul Brood 40 Experiences of Brood Inspector 57 



Cellar v. Outdoor Wintering 40 Crane on European Foul Brood 58 



SIFTINGS 41 Employees, Treatment of 58 



Parcel Post for Beekeepers 41 Bees, Their Dislike for Black 60 



Bee Paralysis 41 Carniolans Ahead of Italians 61 



Italians, Black 41 Banats a Failure for Comb Honev 62 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 43 Preventing Granulation of Comb Honey. . . . 62 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST. . .43 HEADS OF GRAIN 63 



Scholl Hive-numbers 43 Candied Honev as a Winter Food 63 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . .44 Honeyhouse, Design for 63 



Feeding Back 44 Outdoor Feeding for Winter 63 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 45 Hives, Number Needed for Increase 63 



Location, Importance of Knowing 45 Mixing Bees in House Apiary 64 



Paralysis, Bee, Cure for 45 Small's Introducing Cage. . . .'. 64 



Adulteration of Honey 46 CarboHc-acid Solution for Bees 64 



Bees, Number of in California 47 Honey-dew, to Recognize 64 



Salt on Black-brood Combs 47 Fermentation of Jamaican Comb Honey. . . . 64 



Requeening, New Plan for 48 New Jersey Convention 64 



Beekeepers of Colorado 49 Skunk Traded for Bees 65 



Greasewood of Colorado 50 Mating of Queens 65 



Apiary, The Babberger 51 OUR HOMES 66 



Beekeeping in Florida 53 Hawks, Pellet's Plea for 70 



