VOL. XXV. 



CHICAGO, ILLS., JANUARY 5, 1889. 



No. 1. 



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Topics Presented in TMs Nmlier. 



Apicultu ral Patents 



Bee-Cellar Ventilators, etc 



Bees Did Fairly Well 



Bee-Keepers' Union 



Beo-Keeping in Alabama 



Bee-Sting Kills a Lady 



Biographical— Prof . A.J. Cook 



Blessings of a Poor Season 



Contraction of the Brood-Nest 



Crossing Races of Bees 



Experience with Bees, etc 



Experiments 



Feeding and Uniting Colonies 



Fine Fall for Bees 



Fine Weather for Bees 



Flowers that Bloom but have no Nectar . . . 



Good Prospects for 1S89 



Lessons of the Past Season 



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N. W. Aflierbaugli, 



W. H. Andrews, 



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John Boolli, 



J. E. Brooks, 



Edwin Bump. 



George Eidemiller, 



A. J. Fisher, 



Louis Gerhart, 



W. H. Graves, 



1. J. Heaton, 



Melissa— How Far Bees Fly 



Michigan State Convention Keport 



New Bee-Books 



New Year Greetings 



Not a Pound of Honey 



No Snow Yet. etc 



Open-Side Sections 



Packing Hives with Sawdust 



Prevention of Swarming 



Producing Extracted Honey 



Prospects for White Clover 



Heading Bee-Literature in Winter. 



Itearlng Brood in December 



Keport for 1888 



Kesults of the Season 



Reversing Brood-Combs 



Scientiflc Legerdemain 



Scraping Propolis from Sections . . . 



Season of 1888 in Maine 



Stands at the Head 



Swarming-Out, etc 



Uniting Colonies, etc 



Ups and Downs of Bee-Culture 



Upward Ventilation in Uives 



Use of Honey-Boards 



Who Keeps Bees ? 



Width of Top-Bars— Honey-Boards 

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Samuel King. Jr., 

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