Volume XXXII. 



AUGUST 15, 1904. 



Number 16 



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CONTENTS 



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Market Quotations 784 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 791 



j Pickings, by Stenog 792 



Conversations with Doolittle 793 



PvDITORIALS 795 



Dr. Phillips and His Scientific Articles 795 



Re- revised Honey- crop Report for 1904 795 



Comb-honey Ganard and a Retraction 796 



Miniature Queen-mating Nuclei 797 



Bee-keeping Among the Rockies." 798 



C H. W. Weber and His Able Assistants 799 



General Correspondence 802 



The Sense of Smell in the Bee 802 



Harry Clinton Morehouse 803 



Apis Mellifica or Apis Mellifera 804 



Feeding Bees Outdoors 804 



Marketing Honey 805 



California Items 805 



Dibbern's New Queen-trap 806 



foreign Competition 807 



Heads of Grain 



Callbreath's Introducing-cage 809 



Act of Mating of Queen and Drone 809 



Sweet Clover in the Oats 810 



Summer Mortality of Bees 810 



High-pressure Feeding Outdoors 810 



Bee keeping Among the Rockies 811 



Poisoned Honey from Cotton 811 



Swarming to Borrowing 812 



Gasoline vs. Steam Engrines 812 



Bingham Smokers and Root's Extractors 812 



Poo Much Swarming, and Little Honey 818 



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