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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 5, 1906 



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Contents of this Number 



Illustrations — 



An Armful of Bee? 1st Page 



Bee-Hive Struck by Lightning ist Page 



Krame-^pacing Arrangement 2y8 



Editorial Notes and Comments— 



Hon^y Advertising and the National Associa- 

 tion 291 



How to Provide Water for Bee> 2h1 



Need of Water for Bees 2U1 



Miscellaneous Neivs Items — 



An Armful of Bees 292 



Bee-Hive Struck by Lightning 292 



National Convention 292 



Contributed Special Articles — 



Baby Nuclei 297 



Beeswax — Origin, Composition, Adulteration 



Tests, Etc 295 



Beginning Bee-Keeping— Good Advice 266 



Cleaning Oil-Cans 297 



Dadant Methods of Honey-Production (No. 8) 298 



Family Apidae 294 



Feeding Eees 297 



Hive Colors. Etc 298 



Hives and Frame-Spacers 298 



Home-Made Hives 299 



Honey that TU'kles PalateB 293 



Plea for a Better General Education 294 



Reading Bee-Literature 287 



Shipping and Selling Section Honey 294 



Convention Proceedings — 



A Non-Swarming Hive 302 



Bee-Keeping— Ancient and Modern 301 



Dysentery Among Bees 305 



Ecunomy in Bee-Keeping 299 



FeediDg Back to Get Partly-Filled Sections 



Completed at Close of Honey Season 303 



Foul-Brood Inspection 304 



Harvesting of Extracted Honey 304 



Management of Out- Apiaries 3(12 



Michigan State Convention 302 



Performing Bee-Men at Fairs 303 



Pollen in Sections 303 



Queen-Excluders 303 



Races of Bees. 304 



Size of Sections 304 



Uncapping Machine ... . 3()4 



Wisconsin State Convention 9 



Southern Beedom — 



Attend Bee-Keepers' Conventions 305 



Invitation to the National 305 



Nueces Valley Convention 305 



Oar Sister Bee-Keepers — 



New England Sister Looks On 306 



Some Intemperate Bees 306 



Very Old (?t English BeeB 306 



Mr. Hasty's Afterthoughts — 



Bees Moving Eggs or Larvae 307 



Caucasian Bees 307 



Causes of Honey Flow and Suppression 3"7 



Cutting Foundation 306 



Dampening Sections 306 



Growing a Quick Wind-Break 306 



Sulphur for Bee-Paralysis 307 



Two Queens in a Hive 307 



Canadian Beedom — 



How to "Sample " a Town With Honey 307 



Losing Its Honey Flavor 307 



Relation of RipeneBsof Honey to Granulation :*i7 

 Streaky Granulation in Honey 307 



Dr. Miller's Question-Box — 



An Injured Finger 3CN 



Buying Bees in the Spring 309 



Changing Queens 309 



Equalizing Brood Among Colonies 309 



Extracted-Honey Retail Packages and for 



Storage 308 



Italianizing Black Bees 308 



Keeping Queens 309 



Making Sections at Home 3U9 



Mice as Honey-Eaters 308 



Miller Frame 309 



Number of Comb-Honey Supers Per Colony... 309- 



Old Combs for Beeswax 309- 



Preventing Bess Hanging Out 309 



Pure-Blond Italians 398 



Rearing Queens 308 



Ripening Basswood Honey 308 



Several Eggs in a Cell 309 



Shallow Hives 308 



stretching Comb Foundation 309 



Uniting Weak Colonies 308 



Ventilation Space Below Brood-Frames When 



Moving B j es 309 



Wax-WormB and Combs 30# 



Reports and Experiences — 



Bees Wintered Well 80 Far 310 



Honey Scarce Last Season 310 



Keeping Bees on Shares 310 



Not Expecting a Great Crop 310 



Season Earlier Than Usual 310 



White Clover All Right 310- 



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