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EDITORLVL 465 



Texas Bee Book 465 



Absconding Swarms 465 



Education on Foul Brood 465 



Defying Postal Laws 466 



Foul Brood, New Name for 466 



Texas as a Honey State '. . .467 



STRAY STRAWS 468 



Bees in a Pound 468 



Formic Acid in Honey 468 



British Size of Section 468 



NOTES PROM CANADA 469 



Milkweed for Honey 469 



Honey, Cheaper -.469 



Beekeeping in California 470 



California Crop 470 



BEEKEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES 471 



Climate of Colorado 471 



Packing Apples by Number 471 



Colorado Bee Inspection 471 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE . 472 



Drones out of Season 472 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 473 



Ensley's Comb-meUer 473 



National Association in California 474 



Bulk Comb Honey in the North 475 



Mutability of Bees 476 



Automobile Trailer 477 



Selling Honey to Consumer 478 



Dines' Queen Method 479 



Oil of Anise for Swarms 482 



Calamities in Apiary 482 



Artificial Swarming 483 



Queen Eight Years Old 483 



Miller's Early Steam Knjfe 484 



Hives, Numbering 485, 489 



Beekeeping in Jamaica -.486 



Average California Crop 486 



Analysis of Bee-bread 487 



Bees Eating Fruit 488 



Spraying in Bloom Kills Bees 489 



HEADS OF GRAIN 490 



Hive Numbers of Metal ; 490 



Quick Hiving 490 



Drones, to Destroy 490 



Queens Caged in Hive 490 



Dual Introduction 490 



Colony Refuses a Queen 490 



Uniting by Newspaper Plan 491 



Supersedure of Queens 491 



Moths in Comb Honey 491 



Honey as a Medicine 491 



When Foundation Causes Swarming 492 



Springs in Brood-chamber 492 



OUR HOMES 493 



Tobacco Circular 493 



Gov. West's Liquor Crusade 494 



HEALTH NOTES 495 



Fermented Milk 495 



Nostrums and Quackery 496 



Robbing Sick People 496 



Tanner's Fasting 497 



Pokewood Poisonous 498 



Chufas 498 



Redbugs 499 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 500 



