CONTENTS. 
Editorial — page 
Our Third Volume . . . . 3 
Hints for September . . . . 3 
The Exhibition . . . . . . 4 
Manufactured Honey . . . . 5 
Comb Foundation and Foundation 
Mills . . . . . . . . 5 
Proceedings of Beekeepers’ Asso- 
ciations — 
Victorian Beekeepers’ Association . . 6 
South Australian Beekeepers’ Asso- 
ciation . . . . . . 6 
News and Beports from Colonial 
Apiaries — 
Victorian Bee Company . . . . 9 
Buln Buln 
Italian Bee Farm, 
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9 
Paramatta, N.S.W. 9 
Correspondence— 
Gloster, J., Bobbing Wild Bees .. u 
Chambers, L. T., Wintering . . 
XTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS — 
Open verms Closed Side Sections .. ]i 
Rev. L. L. Langstroth .. ..12 
Comb Honey . . . . . . 13 
Increase .. .. .. ..13 
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