Volume XXXII. 



DECEMBER 15, 1904. 



Number 24 



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INSBEE CULTJJRE 



Market Quotations 1136 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 1143 



Pickings, by Stenog 1145 



Conversations with Doolittle 1146 



Editorials 1147 



Sidelights from the St. Louis Convention 1147 



The Chicago-Northwestern Convention 1149 



Immensity of the Bee-keeping Industry 1150 



General Correspondence.... 1155 



Does Clover Winter-kill? > 1155 



When Clover Yields Honey 1156 



Hoffman Frames 1157 



Spacing Frames 1158 



Bees on Shares 1158 



A Bunch of Questions 1159 



Heads of Grain lieo 



Size of Winter Entrances 1160 



Will an Apiary Contract Foul Brood? 1160 



What to do w^ith Unsalable Chunk Honey 1160 



Stealing Bees; the Remedy 1161 



Ventilating Through the Hive-bottom 1161 



Sciatica and Muscular Rheumatism Cured. ..1161 



Bee-stings and Rheumatism 1161 



The 4x5 Sections 1163 



How to Ship Bees from Canada to Jamaica"1163 



Best Time to Requeen 1164 



Hive-rabbets 1164 



Number of Colonies to a Locality 1164 



A Swarm of Drones 1165 



Our Homes 1167 



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