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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 31, 1906 



Contents of this Number 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W.YORK 8 COMPANY 



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Illustrations — 



Honey Exhibit of R.H.Smith 1st Page 



Editorial Notes and Comments — 



Doolittle's Out- Apiary Management.. 461 



Followers in Brood-Chambers , 461 



Taxing Bees in Wisconsin 46 1 



.Miscellaneous Nev)s Items — 



City Ordinance Against Bee-Keeping 462 



How to Treat Lies 462 



Inexcusable Carelessness 462 



Photographs for the Bee Journal 462 



Contributed Special Articles — 



Color of Honey 464 



Dadant Methods of Honey-Production < No. 12) 464 



Feeding Bees in Spring 463 



Increase of Colonies 463 



Natural or "Shook" Swarming 463 



Offers of Proof of Machine-Made Comb Honey 464 

 Stimulative Feeding 463 



Southern Beedom — 



Next Texas Bee-Keepers' Convention 465 



Removing Sections from T-Supers 465 



Canadian Beedom — 



Brood to the Top-Bar in Combs 466 



Middlesex County Convention 466 



Visit to K. H. Smith— Honey Exhibit 466 



Our Sister Bee-Keepers — 



Honey for Anemia and Baby Food 466 



Smartweed and Goldenrod 467 



SDiders in Folded Sections 4«7 



Women Bee-Keepers Not Trouble-Makers .... 466 



Mr, Hasty's Afterthoughts- 



Aspinwall Non-Swarming Hive 467 



Bible References to Honey 468 



Experiments on Preventing Swarming 467 



Extracting Combs Taken Right from Hive 467 



Mountain and Rambler's Apiary .... 467 



Plain Sections Gaining in Circulation 467 



Roller Machine for Uncapping 467 



Dr. Miller's Question-Box — 



" Beginner Improving Stock " 46r. 



Best Honey-Producing Bees and Queens 46 H 



Emptying T-Supers by Gravitation 468 



Patented Hives 468 



Queenless Bees Gathering Pollen 468 



Hearing Queens 4«8 



Requeentng 468 



Wiring Shallow Extracting Frames 468 



Zinc-Excluders 468 



Reports and Experiences 



April Favorable fer Bees 469 



Bees Never Wintered Better. 469 



Bees Short of Stores 469 



Bees Wintered Well 469 



BuryiDg Bees 469 



Fastening Starters 469 



Feeding Bees to Prevent Starving 469 



Flattering Prospect 469 



Gallberry Honey 469 



Good Prospects - 469 



Good Prospects for White Clover 469 



Heavy Loss from Starvation 469 



Hiving Swarms 469 



Poor Season for Bees in 1905 469 



Pure-Blooded Be*>s 469 



Value of Bees to Blossoms 4H9 



Vetch Honey 469 



White Clover Thick 46t* 



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