Volume XXXI 



TOSBEE CUIiTOH 



Contents 



Market Quotations 367 



Straws, by Dr. C. C. Miller 371 



Pickings, by Stenog- 373 



Conversations with Doolittle 37+ 



Editorials 375 



Rufusing to Pay for Queens t 37() 



New Hive with"Closed-end Frames 3'6 



Policv of Gleanings toward Co-operation.. ... 87(i 



Alfalfa Houey ; Its Quality 376 



Mr. Hilbert and His Opinion of Cuba 37(i 



I^atest from the Pear-growing Regions. 377 



Editor Hutchinson at Medina 377 



General Correspondence .-80 



Northern Michigan Bee-keepers' Convention. .3.«0 



California Honey-producers' Association 3K2 



Comb honey Production 3S3 



Aikins Candied Honev 3S4 



Full Sheets vs. Starters in Brood-nest 3S.5 



Plea for Starters against Full Sheets 386 



Foundation Starters 3S7 



Fertilization of Queens in Confinement 3'8 



Heads of Grain 389 



Queens with Dented Sides.-. 3^9 



Curing Foul Brood ......390 



Improvement in Wheelbarrows Suggested .3H1 



Simple and Cheap Hive stands .392 



Right Kind of Free Advertising 3 f_> 



Cutting .\lfalfa after Bloom 393 



Rat or Mouse Trap 3'<o 



Short Heads of Grain 39Ji-3'i,S 



Notes, OF Travel 399 



By A. I. Root. 



Special Notices. ..412 



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