Volume XXXI 



JANUARY 1 1903 



Contents 



Stray Straws, by Dr. Miller 



Pickings, by Stenog - - 



Conversations with Doolittle - 

 Editorials 







9 

 II 



11 



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 11 



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 12 





Pure-food Bill 

 Ants and Pear-blig-ht 

 Butterflies and Alfalfa - 

 Alfalfa Cut Early or Late 

 An Expert Deceived or Misled 



General Correspondence - - - . 



Bulk Comb Honey, dy H. H. Hyde 14 



Winter Repositories, by Doolittle 15 



Alfalfa for Horses, by L. B. Bell 19 



Section- box Nuclei, by Swarthmore 18 



Watson's Ranch, by E. R. Root 21 



Heads of Grain ------ 24 



Pear-juice for Winter Feed - 24 

 Winter Hives and How^ Packed 24 



Bee Paralysis, etc. - - 25 



Temperance Progress 26 



By A. I. Root 



Our Homes - 26 



By A. I. Root 



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