Volume XXXII. 



meEE CULTUflE 



oNTENTs 



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Market Ouotations 627 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 635 



Pickings, by Stenog 637 



Conversations with Doolittle 638 



Editorials 639 



Glycerine Not a Preventive of Candying 639 



The Honey Crop for 1904 639 



An Association Brand of Purity 610 



The Greatest Honey Plant in the World 610 



Sending Unscraped Comb Honey to Market. ..640 

 Hoffman Frames— Merits and Demerits 641 



General Correspondence 643 



Thin vs. Thick Top-Bars 644 



Bees and Fruit 6*6 



An tlp-to-Date Bee-Keeper in Nevada 647 



Has the Straw Hive a Future in America? 648 



No Danger from Putting Honey in Syrup 6o0 



Indoor vs. Outdoor Wintering 6o0 



Ventilation -with Celler Wintering t>.)l 



ATSuper Without Separators or Fences 6.52 



Report of the PhiladelphiaBee- Keepers' Asso- _ 



ciation Meeting 653 



Seed-Growing for Bee-Keepers 6o4 



Grain 656 



Bees on Shares 6.j9 



Shallow Hives for Brood Nests and Supers 6h0 



Making the Bee-Smoker Automatic 661 



Queens Mating Twice 661 



!>, It Alfalfa or Sweet Clover? ....663 



Household Ammonia for Removing Propolis..<)6^ 

 Coggshalls Brood Frame with End Staples., tifij 

 Bleaching the Darkest Yellow Comb White. 



Eastei^»^ Edition. 



Entered at the poc-^or^^'-E, at ^^edina, Ohio, as Second--- • ss. Matter. 



