Volume XXXIl. 



MAY I, 1904. 



Number 9 



W^EE CULTHffiE, 



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CONTENTS 



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Market Quotations 420 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 427 



Pickings, by Stenog- 429 



Conversations with Doolittle 430 



Editorials 431 



Successful Wintering Outdoors 431 



Tall Sections Using Supers 432 



Indoor Wintering 432 



Death of Gen. D. h- Adair 433 



Growing Popularity of the Fence System 434 



Michigan's :Cast Pines 434 



Bees as a Nuisance 436 



Cutting Candied Honey 436 



General Correspondence 438 



Relative Variation of Drones and Workers 438 



Pack Mules for Carrying Bee Supplies 439 



A Wisconsin Apiary 439 



lyabor-saving in Snowy Winters 410 



A Few Points on Shaken Swarms 441 



A Home-made Uncapping-Device 442 



Sectional Brood'Chambers 443 



Heads of Grain 444 



Swarms with Clipped Queens 444 



Candied Chunk Honey for Market 445 



A Short Way of Transferring 445 



Arrangemeni of an Apiary 445 



A Tilting Cell-bar 446 



Wintering in the Cellar 446 



Cockroaches or Field mice 446 



Preventing Foundation from Buckling 447 



Plain or Beeway Sections 447 



t^oul-brood Law in California US 



Our Homes 449 



Special Notices 464 



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