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Contents of this Number 



" iMaking Good " (Poem) 1st Page 



Illustrations — 



Acklm.-T n S7S 



Green, James A r>79 



Wnteiuarruw Dmiants UBe in Extracting 576 



Editorial Xotes and Comments — 1 



"~B a' k Brood in the United States— A Warning f?3 



Blnchs vs. Italians in England 574 



("hjtnt'^ableness of Honey-Sources JS7M 



Dead Brood, Not Foul 573 



Dint- rentiation ot Black and Foul Brood 573 



Is Black Brood Spreadingin the United States? 573 



Biographs of Beedomites — 



Acklin.J.C 574 



Green, James A 574 



Contributed Articles — I 



Dadant Methods of Honey-Production (No. 14 1 575 

 Relation of Bees to Horticulture 576 



O/tr Sister Bee-Keepers — 



Brnve Fight Against Swarming 577 



Gouseberry-Honey Preserves 577 



Honey for Burns 577 



Hygienic Honey Soap in France 577 



San Francisco and a Honey-Girl Student 577 



Sisters Prominent in Irish Beedom ~>77 



Vi-ry Discouraging Prospect 577 



Wo 1 king on Asparagus 577 



Canadian Beedom — 



file's Acute Serine of Smell... 578 



Insects' Blunders 57B 



Wby are Flowers Colored? 578 



Convention Proceedings — 



National at ChicBgo 579 



Producing Both Comb and Extracted Honey 

 on the Same Colony 579 



Southern Beedom — 



Successful and Easy Way to Work Up a Home 

 Honey Market 581 



Dr. Miller^s Question-Box — 



Dividing Colonies for Increase 582 



'ietting Drones from a Distance 581 



Is"Honey-Dew 'Pure Honey? 582 



Preventing Increase 582 



Putting Weak Colonies Over the Strong 582 



Oueen-Experience 581 



Hearing Queens in a Poor Season 582 



Reports and Experiences 



Getting Bees Into Supers and No Swarming... 583 



If Wet Enough, Good Prospects 583 



Non-Swarming Brown or German Bees 583 



Safe Introduction of Queens 583 



Transferring Larv;e with a Medicine Dropper. 583 



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