Volume XXXI 



SEPTEHBER 15 1903 



BEEGUUrap 



^cONTENTs^ 



Market Quotations 787 



^Straws, by Dr. Miller 791 



Pickings, by Stenog- 793 



Conversations with Doolittle 754 

 Editorials 795 



Notice to Members of the N. B. K. A 795 



Formaldehyde Treatment 796 



Keeping Honey Liquid Indefinitely 790 



Bee Paralysis 79G 



Cages for Mailing Queens 79f) 



Raising Queens a la Stanley 797 



Model Bee Cellar in Michigan 798 



General Correspondence 799 



Venezuela as a Bee Country 799 



Shallow Hives 798 



Tightening the Wires 802 



Heads of Grain 803 



That Big Swarm of Bees 804 



American Formaldehyde 804_ 



Why Bees do not Work in Sections 804' 



Is it' Pickled or Foul Brood 805 



Dampness in the Cellar 805 



>... Sliced Onion for Stings 806 



Do all Basswoods Blossom? 806 



Bees as Embalmers 807 



Sweet Clover Preferred to Alfalfa by Stock ..S07 



Boes Poisoned by Spraying 803 



Honey Dew for Winter Food 809 



A\\\\ Feeding Outdoors 809 



i.m^ ■" ' When to Take Oflf Supers - 809 



Our Homes 810 .,.,.,. 



Health Notes 812 *^^"^^ " '^ 



Special Notices 820 jy/y/zMisi^^^ 



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