CONTENTS. 
Editorial — 
PAGE 
Correspondence — 
Apology ... 
19 
An Experience with a Swarm 
... 28 
Hints lor October and November 
19 
Spurious and Adulterated Honey 
20 
Extracts — 
Mats for Covering Frames ... 
21 
Are Bees Worth Keeping ... 
23 
Proceedings of Beekeepers' Asso- 
Brood Combs 
... 241 
CIATIONS — 
Feeding New Swarms 
Victorian Beekeepers’ Association ... 
21 
Drones ... 
... 25 1 
News from Colonial Apiaries — 
Keeping Combs and Sections 
... 26; 
Nangeela, Casterton 
22 
Number of Frames in Hive... 
... 26 1 
Tallarook 
22 
Getting Bees out of Sections 
... 26 o 
Echuca ... 
22 
Finding Queens 
... 27 ■ 
Our Own Apiary ... 
22 
Notes on Honey ... 
... 28 
Beekeepers’ Supply Factory 
22 
Foul- Brood Bill of New Zealand 
... 29 
Price’s Stewart’s Range Apiary 
22 
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