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Contents of this Number. 



Editorial : 



Editorial Items 386, 390 



First Year of the Weekly Bee Journal — :t*c> 



The Successful Wintering Problem 383 



Apiarv Record Book :<*■> i 



Binders lor 1KH2 386 



Comb Honey Production 386 



A in on if our Exchanges : 



The Profits of Bee-Keeping 386 



Selling Honey to the Best Advantage 3fifi 



Honey as Food 386 



The Poppy and the Bee 386 



Correspondence : 



Pollen— Its Relation to Dysentery 3*7 



Experiments in Feeding Bees 387 



Transferring Bees 3ffi 



Report on Bees— lhhi 3HM 



Our Bee and Hdiipy Report for 1881 38m 



The Disposal of Honey 388 



Items of Interest from Germany 388 



Convention Notes : 



Local Convention Directory 389 



Utah Convention 38! I 



Selectlonn from Our Letter Box : 



Multum in Parvo 390 



Wintering, Cyprians, etc 390 



Off Year for Honey 380 



P.mr Sanson fur Hunev 390 



About Preparing Bees Tor Winter 880 



State Society for New Jersey 390 



Sweet Clover on Bottom Lands 390 



Bee Pasturage 390 



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