Volume XXXIII 



MAY 15, 1905 ' 



B«EE CULTMi 



Market Quotations 518 



Straws— Dr. Miller 523 



Bee-keeping among the Rockies ...525 

 Editorials 527 



The A. I. Root Company in the Bee-business 527 



Shaken or Brushed Swarms 527 



Shp-gear Honey-extractors 528 



The Pnze-photo Contest 529 



Senate Plot against Pure Food 530 



General Correspondence 531 



Honey Consumed by a Colony in One Year 531 



The Hoffman Frame 533 



Confusion in the Grading-rules 536 



Follv of Sending Unripe Honey to Market- • 538 



Pickled Brood 539 



Pure Orange Honey in Florida 540 



Conversations with Doolittle 541 



Heads of Grain 544 



Outdoor Atmospheric Feeder 544 



Zinc for Record-cards; Italians as Cell-builders 545 



Removable Metal Frame-spacer 54h 



Show-case; Dummies; Device for Narrow Entiances 547 



Pasteboard as a Material for Sections 548 



Wire Frame-spacer 549 



Some Ideas for Simplifying Transferring 550 



A Free-passage Fence ■ 551 



The Lewis Foundation-fastener 552 



Our Homes 555 



Gardening 558 



Special Notices 571 Mmz^^A 



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