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Our Italian Queens, Poem 123 



l^ees on Shares 1'23 



Winter Itcpositories 121 



Siirni^ Feedin;;, and Spring Dwindling 12 1 



Fiml Brood and Pure Water 121 



f nwh Foundations 125, 143, 144. 



JIuvinsBees 125 



Ripe7ini:i: Ilonev 125 



Verv Karlv Queens 125 



Pu7.7. Saw's 12(> 



Dejinrtmcnt for Eox Hive Bee-Keepers 12(1 



How to :\Iakea Box Hive 127 



1 low to Find a Queen 128, 1.S2 



How to f^ret Comb Honey 12S 



Thick Combs and Section Boxes 12!) 



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Coml) Foundulions larirer than Drone Cells 132 



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Tin Separators 133, 144 



HumhuLcs & Swindles 133 



Two Stories Patented (r) 133 



That "Awful Dwindling" 134 



Diin't ^lix your Honey 131 



ISniod nnil I'ollen in Section Boxes 131 



Pn ililein Xo. 1 135 



Food of Worker Larva' 135 



ItMliani/.ina: 137 



Points in Hive Making 13S 



Patents 120, !;>,(;, i:i,s 



Prevention of Swarming V.K 



Limp Nurseries i;>i 



Introducing Queens W.'J 



Honey Vinegar 1 ,0 



Ripe for Bees no 



Changing Localily wlien Transferring i;0 



