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Contents of this Number.
Correspondence:
Pure Liquid Honey in Glass Jars 81
Colchian Honey 81
Combined Winter and Summer Stands 81
Foul Brood and Its Causes 81
History of the Early Importation
of Italian Bees 82
Good Way to Promote Bee-Keeping 82
Do Bees Injure Fruit? 82
Remarkable Tardiness in Fecundity 82
Honey-Producing in California 83
Bee Men to the Front—Adulteration 83
How to Prevent Robbing 83
The In-and-In-Breeding of Bees 83
Killed by Kindness 83
Editorial:
Editorial Items 84
Watchman! Tell us of the Night 84
Migratory Bee-Keeping 84
Interesting Letter from Ceylon 84
Selections from Our Letter Box:
Bees Wintered Well 85
Mortality Reports 85
Nineteen Weeks' Confinement 85
Wintered Safely 85
A Slim Living 85
Honey Sections 85
Bees in Good Condition 85
Wintered Without Loss 85
Mourning for the Bees 85
Wintering 85
Selling Honey, Vexatious 85
Prospects Better 85
Bees All Alive 85
Winter Yet in Kentucky 85
No Surplus nor Increase 85
Great Loss of Bees 85
Dead Bees in the Cells 85
Making Progress 85
Not Discouraged 85
Paris Green 85
Bees in Prime Condition 85
Progressing 85
Lost but 4 out of 283 85
Moldy Combs, etc 86
Palestine Bees 86
Honey as Medicine 86
Gathering Pollen 86
Anxious for Spring 86
Bees Died of Disease 86
Cyprian Bees Ahead 86
An Early Season 86
Bees Gone Back on Him 86
Snow Vine as a Honey Plant 86
Feeding Bees 86
Introducing a Queen 86
Loss of Bees 88 per cent. 86
First Year's Experience 86
Summer a Long Way Off 86
A Little Discouraged 86
Why Did the Bees Die? 86
Wintered Without Loss 86
Conventions: