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Xopics Presented this W^eek. 



After-Swarms 23 



Ag-ricultural Buildings 10 



Apicultural Notes from Alabama 21 



Bee and Honey Gossip. .'. 22 



Bee-Keepers and the Illinois Legislature. . 15 



Bee-Keeping in Minnesota 17 



Bees and Honey at the Fair 10 



Cleaning Wood-Zinc Honey-Boards 22 



Convention Directory 22 



Convention Notices 26 



Depositing Pollen 14 



Dry Weather in New Jersey 22 



Editorial Buzzings 7 



Facts Concerning Bee-Keeplng 16 



Hiving Bees 23 



Hiving Swarms at Leisure 23 



Honey-Boards— To Clean 22 



Houey-Dew 9 



Illinois World's Fair Managers ... 7 



Indication of Swarming 14 



Machinery Hall 11 



No Duty on Queen-Bees 8 



Paste to Stick to Tin 21 



Perspective of South Lagoon 12 



Planting for Honey 21 



Poor Prospects for White Honey. . .* 23 



Queries and Replies 14 



Rain 13 



Remedy for the Nameless Disease 22 



Review of Mr. Cowan's New Book 18 



How the Bee Empties its Honey-Sac 19 



Internal Organs (Illustration) 18 



Nervous System 20 



Respiratory System 20 



Royal Jelly, and What is It ? 20 



Stomach-Mouth 19 



True Stomach 19 



Sioux City Corn Palace 7 



Spraying Fruit Trees 7 



Stingiess Bees 21 



Swarm-Hivers 22 



The Honey Crop 7 



The Squire and the Bees 9 



Topics of Interest ". 15 



Wavelets of News 21 



Where are the Apes ? 26 



Whitewash for Out-Door Work 14 



Wish to Obtain Information Free 23 



