Volume XXXII. 



APRIL 15, 1904. 



WSBEE CULTURE 



Market Quotations 363 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 375 



Pickings, by Stenog- 377 



Conversations with Doolittle 377 



Editorials ^'7** 



Bee Paralysis Hereditary 379 



The Would-be Inventors of Beedom 379 



A Suit, N. B. K. A Victorious 379 



Possibillities of Bee-keeping in Texas 380 



Corn Syrup and Honey 381 



Keep More Bees— Is the Advice Good? 381 



Gkneral Correspondence 383 



Compound Eye of the Bee 383 



Bee Matter 384 



Queens MatingTsvice 385 



Egg-laying Capacity of a Goou -en 387 



Holding a Swarm of Bees on the ->ire Arm 388 



Report of Michigan Bee-keepers' Convention..389 



Bacillus Alvei 391 



Formaldehyde Gas as Disinfe at 392 



Why Cuban Honey Comes in \ ..ter 393 



Heads of Grain 394 



Cutting Candied Honey with a Wire 394 



Rendering Wax Out of Old Combs 394 



Spreading Brood Without Danger 395 



Cleaning Bees from Extracting Combs 395 



Shallow Hives 395 



Frame Tongs 395 



Honey from Pine Needles 396 



Drain-tile Hive-stand. 39(i 



Salisb\iry's House-Apiary Not a Failure 39() 



Boardman Honey that Candied 397 



Transferring from Old Box Hives 397 



Our Homes 398 



Special Notices 412 





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