Volume XXXIII 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1905 



M^EE CULTUffi 



oNTENTs 



Market Quotations 942 



Straws— Dr. Miller 947 



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 951 



Gleanings from Pacific Coast. 

 Bee-keeping in the Southwest. 



Pickings 



Editorials 952 



Gleanings Subscription-list nearly 22,000 



The Candy-man and Root's Bees on the Roof. 



Caucasian Queens 



Handling- Live Bees Before the Crowds at Fairs 



A Cure for Black Brood 



Hoffman Frames; a Few Words about Them. . 

 Change in Place of Meeting of National Convention 



A Fair Answer to a Fair Question 



Some of the Possibilities of Outdoor Feeding . 



General Correspondence 957 



Noise and Swarming Bees 



Paper Section Boxes 



Alexander's Method of Artificial Increase 



Persistent Swarming 



H R Boardman 



Outdoor Winteting of Bees 



The Finding of Queen-cells 



The Swarthmore Queen-rearing System 



Non-s warming a Honey-getter 



Conversations with Doolittle .. 

 Heads of Grain 



Particulars Concerning Swarthmore Outfits 

 Is an Early-blooming Basswood Tree a Rarity' 



A Cheap and Strong Hive-stand 



Improvement on Danzenbaker Bottom-board 



Our Homes 975 



Special Notices 990 



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