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EDITORIAL 291 



Bees Preventing Frost 291 



Lime for Clover 291 



Black Bees for Wintering 291 



Postal Ruling on Queens 292 



Pollination Affects Fruit 292 



American Bee Journal Sold 293 



Bee-keeper's Review Sold 29:3 



STRAY STRAWS 294 



Sweet Clover a Soil-improver 294 



Painting Hives 294 



Camphor Kills Bee Lice 294 



Bees in a Colony 294 



Stores Needed in a Year 294 



SIFTINGS 295 



Beekeepers and Bee Journals 295 



Windbreaks in Apiary 295 



Moths Prefer Dark Combs 295 



Whisky for Snake-bites 295 



BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST 296 



Hive-number Wanted 296 



Texas Outlook 296 



Nine Virgins in One Colony 296 



Beekeeping in California 297 



Hatching Brood Stands Cold 297 



Orange Bloom Near Snow 297 



Honey Yield in California 297 



Sage Flow Doubtful 297 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE.. . .298 

 Arranging Supers on Hives 298 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 299 



Honey from Diseased Apiaries 299 



Tobacco Honey 300 



Black Colony, 400 lbs. from 301 



Queen-excluders Not Used 301 



Sweet Clover in Alabama. 302 



Location and Honey-flow 303 



Spring Protection 304 



Idaho and Oregon Convention 305 



Giantess. Story of 306 



Improvement of Stock 306 



Swarming, Control of 309 



Sweet Clover for Hay 311 



White Flowers of America 312 



Drones. Comparison of 313 



HEADS OF GRAIN 315 



Square Beeway Sections 315 



Swarming a Natural Trait 315 



Bees Slow to Enter Supers 315 



Cooling Hives by Spraying 316 



Swarming Controlled with Kerosene 316 



Cramps from Honey 316 



OUR HOMES 317 



Florida Investments 319 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 320 



Dandelions for Poultry 321 



Egg-testers 322 



Language of Fowls 322 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 323 



Sweet Clover. Government Bulletin. . . .323, 324 



