Volume XXXI 



APRIL 1 1903 



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Contents 



Market (Quotations... 271 



Straws 275 



Pickings 277 



Conversations with Doolittle 278 



Editori'als 279 



The Heads of Grain Department 



Those Bees in Machine-shop Basement 



Foul Brood to be a Thing of the Past 



McKvoy's Plan for Stopping Swarms 



Death of Thomas G. Newman 



Dtath of Ernest H. Schaeffle, in California 

 Solution of the Pear-blight Problem 



General Correspondence 283 



Pridgen on Queen-rearing, bv IV. A. Pridgen... 283 



Comb Founaation, by R. F. Holterniann 284 



Bulk Honey in Mex'ico, by W. B. Gehieh 2S5 



The New Nomenclature— a Plea, dy >?. C {iKin 28b 



Heads of Grain 



279 

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 280 

 280 

 280 

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 282 



Convenient Device for Filling Honey-bottles 

 Something about Scorpions, from Prof Cook 

 Unpublished Chapter in Life of the Rambler 

 Don't Let Your Swarms Get into a Mix up 

 Questions and Answers in Gleanings. 

 Combs, and Their Relation to Winter Losses 

 Colony in the Garret that has Never Swirmed 

 .\piary and Product of 6.>year-old Bee keeper 



Moving to a Better Location 2*)2 



Feeding Outdoors Near the Apiarj i'ti 



Notes of Travel 293 



By a. I. Root. 



Advertisements. . .297 



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