Volume XXXI 



MARCH 15 1903 



2f«EE GUUraM 



Contents. 



Market Quotations - 219 



Stray Straws, by Dr.Miller 223 



Pickings, by Stenog - - - 225 



Conversations with Doolittle 226 



Editorials 227 



S]ialIo\v Brood-chambers and 4X) Sections 

 Formaldehyde for Foul Brood - - 

 Foul-brood Bills Before Various Legislatures 

 Carpet Grass, or l,ippia Nodi flora 

 Forty Years Among the Bee - - - - 

 Ventilation in Bee Cellars - - - - 



General Correspondence- - - 



Pridgen on Queen-rearing - - 



Forced Swarms, by IV. K. Morrison 



Bee-keeping in Cuba, by E. M. Davidson - 



Nailing Hoffman Framts, by C. B. Th^ving - 



Moving Bees, by A. E. vb. Fat jo - 



Honey for the Grocery Trade, by M. Mover 



Cause of Weak Colonies, by A. C. Miller - 



Heads of Grain ------ 242 



Selling Honey Through U. .S. Express 

 Carter's Cell torniing Stick - - . . 

 Golden and Leather-colored Bees Compared 

 Simple Method for Wiring Frames 



I'orced Swarms - ■ 



The sam^on Hive ------ 



Notes of Travel 



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