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Volume 149 No. 4

A p r i l 2009

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ABJ@dadant.com Web http://www.dadant.com Commercial Beekeeping 101—323

Editor-Joe M. Graham

Advertising Manager-Marta Menn

Publishing Department- Amy Leebold & Dianne Behnke

United States 2008 Honey Production Up 8 Percent USDA-NASS

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• Wax Working 101 T'Lee Sollenberger

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• Efficient Splits Roy Hendrickson • The Learning Curve—2009 Randy Oliver • What's New in Beekeeping—Part Two: Scientific Beekeeping Peter L. Borst Next Up, The Survivors—Part Two of Two Parts M.E.A. McNeil

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• What's Missing From the Current Discussion and Work Related to Bees That Is Preventing Us From Making Good Progress?

Kirk Webster Minnesota's Land of 10,000 Lakes Promotes Honey and Beekeeping Cecil Hicks

Efficient Splits —335 Letters to the Editor

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Newsnotes

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359 The World 363

• Continuing Efforts to Safeguard U.S. Honey Imports —Part I of Two Parts Sylvia A. Ezenwa

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• The Valué of Varietals Grant F.C. Gillard

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• A Red Maple Honey Tasting Joseph Riddle and George S. Ayers

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Honey Market

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Classified Advertising

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Advertising Index

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Col umns The Classroom ' ; Jerry Hayes The Traveling Beekeeper Larry Connor April Cover Picture A honey bee visits a European plum flower {Prunus domestica). Spring fruit bloom is a welcome sight to both bees and man! This beautiful photo was taken by Tibor I. Szabo, RR l , Puslinch, Ontario, Canadá N0B 2J0.

April 2009

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Honey Bee Biology Wyatt A. Mangum The Other Side of Beekeeping George S. Ayers

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