Or how to Realize the Most Money with the Smallest Expenditure of Capital 

 and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



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Wwm^'WLmmw®'^''^^ Mca^^^a^^im®® King. 



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[Also Bound Volumes of the former since 1S50, and Files of all other Bee Journals tliat have been 



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Fool-Fower Bnz/.-S;nvs 40 



Comb FnniKlation MiiL-hine 40 



Section Honey Boxes 40 



Notes & (Queries 4'2 



Calii'ornia 45 



Whv do ISecs desert their Hives V 4(i 



Why ilo (Queens lay eggs? etc 40 



I^ight colored Bees 40 



i-.am)i Nnrseries 47 



Grafting (^ueen Cells 48 



Honey Column 40 



Coml) Honey, Hives, etc 4!) 



Extracting and Straining the Honey "lO 



How soon Shall wc Feed ? 50 



Our Own Apiarv •'il 



Humbugs and Swindles J" 



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Hnw to do All that JTeed be I>one, etc 



Meal Feeding 5:! 



When to take the Bees out 54 



Heads of Grain 55 



Swarm Catcher 55 



I uiversal Hive 11, 55 



Heavy Extractors 50 



Comb's Melting down 50 



Two Queen? in a Hive 50 j. u rjioii 



Carving for Bees 50 S:'\' '-)' 



Poisoned Hone.v 57 r^- ■ /p 



Our Home? " •. 5S 'fi}-' -^^ 



?v o vice's JJarn O'l V-v -j ' 



Sidewalks (,i m'-'Ti.., 



Underdi-ainiuir '..J,l {''■■/,,■' -5? 



How to Make Quiiiby Fi anies dj ',' ^ 





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