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Contents for August 1, 1913 



EDITORIAL 513 Beekeeping as a Side Line 522, 527 



Wind Hinders Queen-rearing 513 Eight Summers' Experience 525 



Dadant in Europe 513 Studying a Swarm 528 



Editor among the Bees 513 Bees as Vibrating Molecules 528 



Honey-crop Conditions 513 Moving 250 Colonies 210 Miles 530 



Demand for Bees and Queens 514 Australian Notes 534 



Schools of Drones Flying 514 Queens Laying above Brood-nest 534 



Muffins and Nevir Honey 514 Eggs to Hasten Egg-laying 535 



Conventions, Dates for 515 Bees in AUentovrn, Pa 537 



Waste for Smokers 515 Beekeeping by a Schoolteacher 538 



Shinning up Trees 516 Beekeeping a Restful Avocation 540 



Foul-brood Inspection 516 Secor's Beginning with Bees 542 



Sweet Clover along Roadsides 517 Honey a Cure for Sick Headache 543 



NOTES FROM CANADA 518 Bees and Sweet Peas 544 



Ten-frame Hives ahead 518 Bees Kept in Buffalo 546 



Season in Canada 518 HEADS OF GRAIN 547 



Hive-records Condemned 518 Disease, Peculiar 547 



BEEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA 519 Freaks of Swarming 547 



Italianizing 519 Protecting Combs from Moths 547 



Small Packages for Extracted Honey 519 Honey-bound Queens 547 



Chico or Greasewood 520 Increase, New Plan for 548 



Beekeeping among the Rockies 520 Queens, Small 548 



Credit for the Beekeeper 520 Himalaya Blackberries 548 



Balling, a Strange Case 520 Propolis on Hoffman Frames 548 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . 521 OUR HOMES 549 



Sections, when to Put on 521 HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 551 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 522 TEMPERANCE 554 



