Volume XXXI 



MAY 15 1903 



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Market Quotations 419 

 Straws, bj- Dr. Miller... 423 



Pickings, by Stenog- 425 



Conversations with Doolittle...426 

 Editorials „ 427 



Colorado Anti-hone\--adulteration I^w 427 



Square or Tall Sections 428 



Problem of Suitable IvUmber for Sections..42.S 



Clipping Queens' Wings; How to Do It 428 



Price of Honey too Low 42Vi 



Coggshall on Entrance-closing .429 



Simple Method Fastening Bottom-boards..4.^ 



Gen.,Mgr. France: What He is Doing 4S1 



New Danz. Bottom-board Improved 431 



Right and Wrong Way to Handle,Smoker..4:>l 



General Correspondence 432 



Eight- frame'Jumbo Hives„ 4.^2 



The Brodbeck Smoker 4:^3 



Comb-honey Production 4:^5 



Increasing the Demand for Honey 437 



Bee- paralysis 438 



^ Cheap and Sen.-iceable Wax-press 439 



The New Foul-brood Cure 440 



Hfads of Grain 442 



Self-spacing Rabbet for Frames: New or Old 

 Comb for Bees; Parrots in the Apiarv to An- 

 nounce Swarming; Poisonous Fumes' from a 

 Strong Colony of Bees ; Watkins Again ; .A. 

 Bottom-board Feeder; Hanging Hive-number 

 Tags; Handy Device for Nailing Up Section- 

 holders; Queen Incubator and Brooder; the 

 Odor not Always Indication of Foul Brood. 



Our Homes 451 



Notes of Travel 453 



Special Notices 464 



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