Volume XXXII. 



AUGUST I, 1904. 



n*«EE CULTOHE 



ONTENTs 



Market Quotations 731 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 739 



Pickings, by Stenog 740 



Conversations with Doolittle 741 



p'.ditorials 742 



No drip Cleats loo Thin .■ 742 



Unusual Amount of Sweet Clover 743 



Selling Unripe Honey 743 



Death of H. C. Morehouse 743 



Mating Queens in Miniature Nuclei 743 



How to Ship Bees 744 



N. E France, General Managerof N. B. K. A ...746 



General Correspondence 748 



Planting for Honey 752 



The Question of the Second Mating of queens ..754 

 A Retrospective Glance 755 



Heads of Grain 757 



Cutting up Candied Honey 757 



Hiving back Swarms by Shaking 758 



Another Tub for Uncapping 759 



Brood-frames with Thinner Top- bars 759 



Discouraging for Canada 759 



Making Swarms destroy Cells 760 



When to make Brushed Swarms 760 



In favor of Thin Top-bars 760 



Alfalfa in Cuba 760 



Bee-escape for Strengthening Swarms 761 



A Fine Queen Trade broken up by Foul Brood. .761 



Milk Paint Alabastine not Suitable 762 



Working Colonies for Comb and Ex. Honey 76.' 



A Swarm that won't stay Hived 76.5 



Pickled Brood; its cause 763 



small Colonies 76^ 



Eastern Editiqn. 



Entered at the Postoffice, at Medina, Ohio, as Second-class Matter. 



