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EDITORIAL 447 



BEE KEEPING AMONG THE ROCKIES..450 



Colorado, Climate of 450 



Laying of Queens 450 



Fairs and Expositions 450 



SIFTINGS ■ • • 451 



Protection from Stings 451 



Mice as Friends 451 



Uncapping-knives, Hot 451 



Hives, ICight v. Ten Frame 451 



Honey Crop of Vermont 451 



STRAY STRAWS 452 



Alcohol, Disuse of 452 



Propolis as an Antiseptic 452 



Sears. Roebuck & Co 452 



NOTES FRiiM (WXADA 453 



Foul Brood in ( intario 453 



CONVERSATIONS WITH DOOLITTLE. .. .454 



Finding Black (Queens 454 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 455 



Let's be Intelligently Honest. 456 



Candying of Honey 456 



Law of Swarming 457 



Uniting Parent Colonies 459 



Eliminating Balling Tendency 460 



Bee-keeping in Florida 461 



Bee-keeping in .Jamaica 463 



Bee-keeping in New Zealand 467 



Bee-louse 468 



Foul-brood Inspectors of California. 469 



Sprint: Dwindling in California 470 



Swarui Control by Shifting Bees 471 



HEAl )S ( IF ( iRAIN 472 



Confining Bees in Observatory Hives 472 



Spider Flower for Honey 472 



Long Cold Spring 472 



Sweet Clover for Stock 472 



How Bees Ventilate 472 



Honey-dew in 1911 473 



Hive Honey-bound 473 



Queen Lays 5 Eggs in a Cell 473 



Removing Bees from a Chimney 473 



Capping-melter Advocated 473 



Lye to Remove Propolis 473 



Fate of the old Queen 473 



Caucasians Preferred 473 



Beginner's Questions 474 



Smoking Bees Close 474 



The Honey-bee — a Poem 474 



OUR HOMES 475 



Ceo. E. Hilton, Death of 475 



Billy Sunday 477 



HK ;il-l'l!KSSURI<: GARDENING 478 



Potatoes from Florida to Alaska 478 



H. W. Wiley 479 



Wall-iiar>er Trust 479 



Peahody. .1. L 479 



Lizzie E. Cotton 479 



HEALTH NOTES 480 



Cigarettes and Fires 480 



