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EDITOHIAI. .1 



Mistakes of Beginners — 1 



Why Bees do not Enter Supers 2 



Swarming Problem 3 



Honey at Expense of Bee Life 3 



Wintering, Caution about 3 



STRAY STRAWS 4 



Lice on Bees 4 



Foundation, to Fasten 4 



Moths in Slumgum 4 



NOTES FROM CANADA 5 



Compensation for Bees Destroyed 5 



Business at Conventions, too much 5 



Weather in Ontario f) 



BEE-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES.... 6 



Colorado Honey Crop 6 



Banking Hives with Dirt 6 



Startering-machine, Jenkins' 6 



Talks on Bees at Schools 6 



( 'olorado Bee-inspection 6 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE 7 



Autos for Bee-keepers 7 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 8 



Experience of Tillinghast 8 



Swarming Impulse, Cause of 10 



Varieties of Bees 10 



Small l';ntrances 10 



Disturbing Bees in Winter 11 



Examining a Colony 12 



Shaking Bees off Combs 14 



Pollen Stores 15 



Brood-cells 15 



Combs, Handling 15 



Combs, to Reverse 17 



Braula Coeca 17 



Binding Journals 18 



( )klahoma Kxhibit 18 



( !asoline-cans for Honey 18 



Steam i I oney-knives 19 



Bee-keeping lor Professional Men 21 



Flowers, Office of 21 



How Bees make Honey 23 



Beginners' <iuestions 25 



OUR IK )MES 29 



.lournalism. Success in 30 



Chvifas 31 



Soy Beans r 31 



Dandelions 31 



Parcels Post 31 



Absconding Swarms 32 



The New Life 32 



Sugar, Use of 32 



