Volume XXXin. 



FEBRUARY 15, 1905 



Number 4 



BEE CULTJJfii 



Market Quotations 160 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 167 



Bee-keeping in the Southwest 169 



Pickings, by Stenog 171 



Editorials 172 



Closing Entrances for Outdoor Wintering 172 



Hatching Chickens over Colony of Bees 172 



Important Essential for Every Colony of Bees 172 



General Correspondence 175 



Overstocking 175 



No Need of Pollen in Shallow Brood-chamber 175 



Acklin's Apiary 176 



Selling Problems 178 



Italians and Foul Brood 178 



Hershiser Combined Hive-stand and Bottom-board ...179 



Winter Flights for Cellared Bees 180 



Why Some Bee-keepers Succeed and Some Do Not -...181 



Hoffman-frame Discussion 182 



Root Cimpanv's Bee-cellar , 183 



Conveksaj). "^s WITH Doolittle 184 



Heads of Grain..... 185 



Idaho Bae-keepers' Foul-brood Legislation 186 



Humidity and Temperature, Relation to Honey-flow..l86 

 Winter Flights 186 



Our Homes 187 



Special Notices... 205 



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