Volume XXXI 



FEBRUARY I 1903 



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Contents 



Market Quotations - 83 



Stray Straws, by Dr. Miller 87 



Pickings, by Stenog - - - - 89 



Conversations with Doolittle - - 90 



Editorials - 91 



The Drouth in Australia - - - 

 Pure- food Bill in the Senate 

 No New Election . . . . 



Cutting- Alfalfa Before It is in Bloom 



General Correspondence - - - 



Fertilization in Confinement, /?. F. H. 

 Mr. France Legally Elected, JMoore 

 Government Aid for Bee-keepers 

 Pear-blight, Johnson - - - 

 In Memoriam of the Rambler, Root - 



Heads of Grain - - - - 



Echoes from Idaho - - 103 

 What Made the Bees Die so? 107 

 Best Methods of Queen-rearing 107 



Notes of Travel io8 



By A. I. Root 



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