INDEX 



673 



Metho I of Cutting Foundation for Box Honey. ..108 



" Fastening Foundation by Wedges 101 



" Handling Frames ;:j10 



" Packing Bees for Winter. 182 



" Stacking Alfalfa '.'.'.'.'.'. 6 



" Using Extractors 176 



Mice as Enemies of Bees 152 



Migratory Bee-keeping (see Moving Bees) 305, 306 



Milk-bottles for Honey 164 



Milkweed 306 



Miller Plan for Unfinished Sections 116 



" Feeder 201 



" Introducing-cage 388 



" Plan of an Apiary 27 



" Queen-catcher 420 



" Record-book for Hives 372 



" Rope Carrier 490 



Mills for Foundation .'..'." 97 



Model Foul-brood Law 299 



Mode of Shipping Bees 310 



Money-making Bee-keeping for Women 46 



Moisture in Honey 365 



Mondeng Handling Live Bees 195 



Moore (or Heddon) Crate 104 



Morrison's Ant-proof Hive-shed 19 



Moths 47 



" To Combat 50 



" in High Altitudes 50 



Movable Apiaries 333 



Bees 310 



Mustard 312 



Muth's Honey-cakes ... 259 



Narrow Sections 119 



National Bee-keepers' Association 61, 63, 64 



Natural-built Queen-cells 359 



" Comb-building 268 



" " at Various Stages 360 



Nature, How Slie Plays Tricks on Bees 333-339 



Necessity of Pollen for Brood 310 



" " Bees ...341 



Nectar 313 



" Analysisof 313 



" as Distinguished from Honey 255 



" Chemical Analysis of 312, 313 



" Inverted 74 



Nervous System of the Bee 12 



No-drip Shipping-case 135 



Non-swarming Hives 247 



*' Hive, Aspinwall 438 



Novice Honey-knife 187 



Nuclei Absconding 3 



" Cells or Virgins for 355 



" for Increase 314 



Forming 854-356 



Nucleus 313 



Shipping Box 310 



Number of Colonies to an Apiary 317 



Nursery-cage for Cells and Virgins 352 



Nursery-frame for Queen-rearing 352 



Nut Cake, Recipe for 359 



Objections to Large Hives 348 



Observatory Hives 351 



Odor of Bee-stings 413 



" Queens 370 



Orange-blossum Honey 316 



Organizations of Bee-keepers 316 



Organs, Reproductive, of the Bee, by Snodgra8s..511 



Original Langstroth Hive 340 



Origin of Robber-bees 377 



Ohio State Fair, Exhibit at 193 



Old Combs, Rendering Wax from 459 



One-piece Sections 106 



Open-air Feeding 204 



Operation of a Bee's Sting 413 



Out-apiaries 317 



" Caution about 333 



" Rent of Land for 318 



Tools for 319 



Outdoor Feeding, Caution 386 



" " for Control of Robbing 386 



Outdoor Furnace for Melting Wax 468 



Outdoor Wintering 480 



Outfit for Liquefying Candied Honey 76 



Overstc )cking 333 



Oyster-pails for Candied Honey 79 



Packages for Comb Honey 120 



" for Li(|uid Honey 162 



Packing for Double-walled Hives 251 



Material for Outdoor Wintering 484 



Pails for Li(iuid Honey ""O 



Palmetto 325 



Palo Pinto 302 



Paper for Packing Homy .126 



" Bags for Extracted Honey 78 



" Covered Hives for Winter 483 



" for Hives, Townsend's 483 



" Packages for Extracted Honey ..'..'.'.'.. 16^ 



Paralysis of Bees 134 



Paraffining Barrels '..'....'.'..... 36 



Parasites of Bees ......!. ....152 



Parentage of Drones '. .145 



Parthenogenesis 145, 325, 367 



Paste for Hands 261 



Pasturage for Bees .....33,323 



Pear-blossoms and Bees 232 



Peavine Clover '. 87 



Peddling Honey 274 



" Wagon, Seizor's 2'J5 



Pennsylvania Apiary 21 



Pepper-box Feeder 200 



Pepper-tree 326 



Percentage of Water in Honey 256 



Perforated Zinc for Drones 147 



" Honey-boards 147 



Pettit Honey-strainer 177, 178 



Phacelia 326 



Phillips on Foul-brood Laws 298 



Pickled Grap, s in Honey 261 



" or Dead Brood 140 



" Brood, Cause of 140 



Plain Sections for Comb Honey 123 



Plain-section System 105 



Plan of a California Apiary 29 



" an Apiarj' 27 



Planting for Bees 33 



Plants for Honey 277 



Plural Entrances and Swarm Control 167 



Poisoning of Bees by Spraying 323 



Poison of Bee-stings 411 



Poisonous Honey 322 



Pollen 326 



" for Brood 340 



" Grains Magnified 332 



" in Section Honey 343 



Ma.sses on Bees' Legs 339,330 



" Substitutes for 311 



Pollenation of Plants 331-339 



PopcornBalls 260 



Portable Honey house 181 



Porter's Bee-escape 182 



Bonder's Veil 451 



Preparations for Swarming 420 



Preservation of Extracted Honey 160 



" Honey 1!% 



Preserves of Bar-le-duc 261 



Prevention of Dysentery 150 



" Foul Brood 142 



Robbing 386 



Primrose, Common 3:i5 



Production of Comb Honey 110 



Profit in Bees 343 



Propkopovitsh Hive 2.54 



Properly Rights in Bees ~96 



Propolis 345 



Do Bees Need It? 346 



" How to Remove from Hands . .345 



" To Keep away from Surplus Honey 345 



Value of 346 



Pi otector for Queen-cells 353 



P I. tting a Queen in a Mailing-cage 288 



Queen Bee 363 



" Cell, Fully Completed 350 



" " Grafting- 348 



" " on Sticks 351 



" " Protector, West 353 



" Excluders for Extracting 189 



" Excluding Honey-boards 3« 



" Lossof 3b9 



" Odor 3'0 



" Rearing ;»♦' 



" Register Cards 3i+ 



" Trap, Alley's '*° 



Queenlessness, to Detect .- --[i 



.356 

 . 4 

 .368 

 .365 

 . 3 



Queenless Colonies, Introducing a Queen to 

 Queens 



" Caging of 



" Clipping .... 



" Drone-laying 

 in a Swarm 



How They Lay two Kinds of Eggs 36. 



More than One in a Swarm * 



Stings of 3'" 



" Voieesof *' 



Wings of 3'^^ 



Quinby Frames ~"" 



