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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 3, 1906 



PUBLISHED WEEKLVBY 



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Contents of this Number 



ZW If more convenient. Dues may be sent to the 

 ublishera of the American Bee Journal. 



Root's Goods at Factory Prices 



Finest and largest stock of Supplies In Illinois. 

 Italian Bees and Queens in season. Catalog- free. 

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Illustrations — 



Apiary of S. L. Mottinger 1st Page 



Johnson, J. B .*... 1st Page 



Pettit, S. T 1st Page 



Dempsey Super i3> ah> 



" Marble Apiary " of S. T. Pettit... 388 



Editorial Notes and Comments — 



Brood to the Top-Bar .isi 



chilled Brood Not :i Cause of Foul Brood :isi 



Improvements m the American Bee Journal. . 3"*1 



Queen- Breeders 8R1 



Heading the Bee-Papers 381 



Miscellaneous News Items — 



"Apiary of S. L. Mottinger 3*2 



Dempsev Super 3*2 



San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 382 



Yon Yonson and the North Pole 382 



Contributed Special Articles — 



Brown-tail Moth 3«4 



Controlling Increase 38i 



Great Moth Fight-" Good Candy " 3«3 



Gypsy Moth — 384 



How to Control the Swarming of Bees 383 



Insect Quarantine , 38-1 



Para sites to the Rescue 3*4 



Rearing Queens hs.t 



Set n Iz (tar .') and His Candy 384 



Sections, Separators, Supers and Section- 

 Holders 384 



Our Sister Bee-Keepers — 



How " We" Introduced a Queen 385 



Keeping Bees With Poultry 386 



8oulhern Beedom — 



Nourishment of Bees 38R 



Weather and the Honey-Flows 387 



Mr. Hasti/s Afterthoughts — 



Caucasian Bees in West-Central Asia. 387 



Dadant's Few Swarms 387 



Large Frames 3K7 



Lubricant for Rietsche Foundation Press 388 



Miller ( Dr. > vs. F. Greiner on T-Supers :>7 



Temperature Inside Winter CluBter of Bees. . . 387 



When Bees father Propolis 388 



Winter Space Too Crowded With Bees 388 



Canadian Beedom — 



Emptying T-Supers by Gravitation 388 



Fastening Hives Together for Moving 38t* 



Pettit. S. T 388 



Value of Bees as Fertilizers of Blossoms 388 



Wintered Fairly Well— Late Season 389 



Work in Harmony With the Farmers 388 



Dr. Miller's Question-Box — 



Danzenbaker Hive 3«9 



la Smartweed Honey Peppery ? 390 



Italianizing Bees 3*9 



Italianizing Colonies 389 



Rendering Wax 389 



Shaken Swarms. 389 



Sweet Clover on Blue-Grass Ground 3-*9 



Tan-Bark for Bee- Yard and Walks 390 



Use of Queen-Excluding Zinc 300 



What Determines Kind and Sex of Bees? 389 



Reports and Experiences — 



Away Dnwn in Florida 390 



Awful Winter nn Bees 3ho 



Bees Making Things Hum. 390 



Bees Not in Good Condition 390 



Clover Seems All Right 390 



Good Results in ^v intering 399 



Heavv Loss in Wintering 390 



Poor Crop in 1905 390 



Variable Spring 3y0 



Langstroth on the 

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