Volume XXXII. 



JUNE 15, 1904. 



MnBEE cultohe 



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Market Quotations o/5 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 583 



Pickings, by Stenog-.... i8S 



Conversations with Doolittle 586 _ 



BICR-KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIRS! 587 



Pear-growers and Bees 588 



Cheap Increase 



EIditorials 589 



Bnck-honey for Summer Trade 589 



Frank Benton and the Bee-keeping Industry 



Qui Western Department, and Editor 



Briek and Bag Honey in Warm Weather 



General Correspondence 592 



Making One's Own Hives 592 



Top- t>ars their Relation to brace-combs 591 



Ontario Co Bee-keepers' Convention 596 



Foundation made from Foul-broody Combs 596 



Pickled Brood; Cause and Cure 597 



Honey Packages 597 



Scraping Sections 597 



Selling both by Weight and the Piece 599 



First >5wainis 600 



Flanged Cups 601 



Grain 60 



603 



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605 



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.igebt Increase by Dividing.. 



S,jt-cial ilive-ventilator 



Modern (jueen-ro^ 



\ ^rame hook 



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o- ndation 606 



607 



iioxes; Honey Candying 607 



.^nun plant Destructive to Bees 60S 



hoil Infected with Sweet-clover Bacteria . . 6()S 

 Honey 41 Years Old 6(i<i 



Our Homes 610 



Temperance 612 



Special Notices.. 620 



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