Volume XXXIII 



MARCH 15, 1905 



IN-BEE CuSffli 





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CONTENTS 



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Market Quotations 278 



Straws, by Dr. Miller 287 



Bee-keeping in the Southwest 289 



Editorials 290 



Winter Losses up to date 290 



Good Time to Move Bees 290 



Winter Flights 291 



Ventilating- Bee-cellars 292 



General Correspondence 293 



Root's Automatic Honey-extractor 293 



Hives Packed in Maple Leaves 297 



Hoffman Frames in Jamaica 298 



Tropical Notes 300 



National Bee-keepers' Association 301 



Does Fertilizing Kill Bees 303 



Midwinter Flights 303 



Flow of Nectar 306 



Gleanings from the Pacific Coast 308 



Conversations with Doolittle 



.309 



Heads of Grain 311 



Useful Tools 311 



Miller's Advice to Young Man „ 312 



Cleaning Piopolis 313 



Tin Boxes for Comb Honey 315 



Ventilated Bottom-board 316 



Comb Honey Lie 317 



Our Homes 320 



Special Notices 339 



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