Volume XXXII. 



JUNE I, 1904. 



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N-BEE CULTUfiE 



Market Quotations 524 



Stkaws, by Dr. Miller 531 



Pickings, by Stenog ^33 



Conversations with Doolittle 534 



Editorials 535 



winter Losses in Wisconsin 5:^5 



The Great Demand for Bees "iSo 



Honey Thieves Brought to Justice 5f>5 



Not a Fish Story 535 



Comb Honey Market 537 



Bee-keeping in the Public Schools 5:?8 



General Correspondence 539 



Quantity or Quality 539 



The Shallow Hive 541 



A Hive on Scales 542 



The "Witchery of Kodakery " 5t3 



Peculiar Instinct of Bees 546 



Heads of Grain 548 



-Fences or Separators 548 



Staying up Foundation 549 



Wintering in Danzenbaker Hives 549 



Virgins Hatching in Wire Cages 550 



Handy Device for Nailing up Hives 550 



House-Apiarie5 551 



Copulation more than Once 551 



Foundation Smelling of Kerosene 551 



Dd Honey-boards Retard Work? 551 



Peculiar Case of Soured Honey. 

 Brass Tags for Hive Numbering., 



Instinct of Bees 



1)D California Lizards kill bees?.. 

 Phacelia for Honey and Fodder... 



Our Homes 



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Gardening 558 



Special Notices 569 



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