Volume XXXI 



WBEE CULT]I1& 



Market Quotations 575 

 Straws, by Dr. Miller... 579 



Pickings, by Stenog 580 



Conversations with Doolittlk...581 

 EJditorials 583 



The Honey Situation in California 583 



Portable Extracting House 583 



The Honey crop for 1903 584 



Spraying Crops; When and How to do it...5S4 



Reclamation of Alkali l,ands in Egypt 58.5 



Are Black and Foul Brood the same thing? 586 

 Grafting Cells 587 



General Correspondence 588 



Open Air Feeding for Bees 588 



Bee-stings 588 



Unripe Honey for the Confectioner 590 



Heads of Grain 591 



Transferring by the Short Method, 591; Poi- 

 son or Disease — which ? 591 ; Do Bees ever 

 l,eave a Sting in a Balled Queen? 259; Second 

 Drive of Bees in a Forced Swarm, 592; A 

 Brick Hive, 592; Colony of Bees without a 

 Hive, 593; Combination of Solar and Artifi- 

 cial Heat. 593; Disinfection with Formalin 

 not Necessarily Complete, and why, 695; Ve- 

 suvius Smoker, 594; Brood in a Patent Hive, 

 5y5; Circle of Bees around the Queen, 595; 

 Blue Thistle, 595; Bee Paralysis, ot*5; Apiary 

 Destroyed by Spraying, 595; Bees Poisoned 

 by the Cotton-plant, o95; Putting on Hue 

 Numbers with a Stencil, 596; Bee-brush made 

 of Pine Needles, o9B; Rambler's Strainer, 597, 

 Feeding Back from Below, 5'I7 



Our Homes 598 



tjPKCiAL Notices 608 



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