Contents for February, 1908 



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Illustrations— 

 Alberts (Mr.) and "Charlie". •■ 1st Page 

 Apiary of Chas. Alberts, Sun Prairie. 



Wis 1st Page 



Cotton Bush •• .■ « 



Cotton Leaves Showing Nectaries- ■.■■ ii 

 J. J. Measer's Apiarian Exhibit at Kan- 



sas State Fair ;• 58 



Oueen-Cell Below Bottom-Bar 39 



Winter V'iew of Apiary of J. J. Measer.. 5/ 

 Woman Bee-Keeper who Makes $7500 a 



Year *- 



Editorial Notes and Comments— 



Basswood as a Honey-Yielder. . . ■ 38 



Brood-Rearing In and Out of Cellar- . - - 38 

 Comb and Extracted from Same Colony 38 



Comb Honey Versus Extracted 38 



Feeding Bees in Winter 38 



Is Bee-Keeping Profitable ? 3/ 



Let Glucose Be Labeled Glucose 37 



Paper Receptacles for Honey. ---■■ ------ 38 



Selling Colonies of Bees Without Combs 38 



Varying Prices for Honey - - • 37 



Ventilation of Hives in the Cellar 37 



White Italian Clover Inferior 38 



Miscellaneous News-Items- 



Bee-Inspection Law of New Mexico 40 



Decision as to Guaranty of Honey 39 



Detroit Secures the National Conven- 



tion 3f 



Mercy in a" Fine" Comb 41 



National Convention Report 4U 



New Bee-Bulletin 39 



Northern California Convention 41 



gueer Place for a (Jueen-Cell 39 

 eports on Bees and Honey Crop 39 



Our Bee-Keeping Sisters— 



Bee-Keeting for Women 41 



Cleaning Separators With Lye ----- 41 



Southern Beedom— 



Caucasian Bees 42 



Cotton as a Honey-Plant 42 



Cyprian Bees 42 



Holy Land Bees 42 



How I Lost in Two Apiaries 43 



Improving the Bees ■■ 43 



Three-Band Italians and Other Races 

 of Bees 42 



Canadian Beedom— 



Bee-Keepers and Bee-Papers 44 



" Bees and Boys " « 



Bumble-Bees to the Philippines 45 



Carniolan Bees 45 



Favorable Conditions for 1908 44 



Millions in Honey 44 



Contributed Articles— 



Age of Queens and Superseding. 45 



Aphiditfe or Plant Lice •■--■ 48 



Are a Queen's Drones Affected by Her 



Mating? 49 



Beginning in Bee-Keeping 47 



Feeding Sugar Syrup 48 



Natural History of Aphids 48 



New Location 48 



Season of 1907 4§ 



Slug a Borer---- -;■■•■.•••■; V^'V,"" '' 



Strong Colonies Desirable as Well as 



Profitable - 46 



Convention Proceedings— 



Best Honey-Section to Use SO 



Cellar-Wintering of Bees ,--•■■;;■••■ ?2 



Cooking Sugar byrup for Feeding Bees 50 



Protecting Bees for Winter 50 



Renewing Queens 51 



Report of the Chicago-Northwestern 



Bee-Keepers' Convention 50 



Sugar Candy for Bees 50 



Supers for Comb H oney 50 



Why Do Bees Ball Queens? 50 



Reflections ok California Bee-Keeper 



California Bee v :"A" ;" " 3 



Mercy Like Chunk Honey— It s Good.. . a 

 Open Winter 51 



Yellow Cytisus 51 



Beedom Boiled Down— 



Depth of Honey Tanks 52 



Item About the Bee-Moth 52 



Kink in Heating Honry 52 



Langstroth and the Removable Frame. 52 



Plurality of Queens in the Hive 52 



Speed of Bees and Rate of Gathering- - ■ 52 

 " Tasted Like Honey" 52 



Doctor Miller's Question-Box— 



Bees Deteriorating 54 



Bees Dying in Winter 54 



Bees Leaving Hive 56 



Beginning With Bees 56 



Breeding Bees 54 



Chestnut Lumber for Hives 53 



Crooked Combs 53 



Crop for Honey and Produce 55 



Drones 54 



Early-Reared Queen 55 ' 



Early Requeening 53 



Eating Comb Honey 53 



Experimenting With Bees 54 



Feeding Bees in Winter 56 



Feeding Burnt Sugar Syrup 56 



Foul-Hroody Combs for Extracting 



Combs 54 



Golden Italian Bees 55 



Good Queen Reared by " Mere Hand- 

 ful " of Bees 56 



Hydrometer for Density of Liquids 55 



Increase 55 



Italian-Caucasian Bees 56 



Managing a Daisy Foundation Fastener 54 



Miller Frames 53 



Moving Bees About a Mile 53 



Nail-Spacers 53 



Position of Frames 54 



Preventing Gnawing of Separators 53 



Propolis on Tops of Sections 53 



Putting on Supers 53 



Queens Lost at Mating-Time 54 



Rearing Queens 56 



Short-Lived Bees 54 



Simple Requeening Without Buying 



Queens 55 



Some Interesting Questions 55 



Sowing Sweet Clover Seed 53 



Splinting Foundation 53 



Standard Hive Dimensions 56 



Starting in Bee-Keeping 56 



Sugar Syrup in Section Honey 56 



Swarming 56 



Tar-Paper for Hive-Protection 53 



Tin Number Tags for Hives 54 



Transferring Bees 56 



Transferring from Box-Hives 53 



T-Supers 56 



Vinegar in the Bee-Cellar 55 



Weak Colonies in Spring 55 



Reports and Experiences — 



Alberts' Bees and Bee-Paper Compan- 

 ions 58 



Bad Spring 58 



Bee-Keeping in Kansas 57 



Bees Did Fairly Well 57 



Bees Did Well 58 



Bees Doing Well 57 



Bulk Comb Honey 58 



Catalpas for Apiary Shade :-.. 58 



Comb and Extracted Honey from Same 



Super 59 



Effect of Low-Grade Honey 59 



Good Fall Flow 58 



Good Prospects in Texas 57 



Honey Crop Total Failure 58 



Improvement of Bees 58 



Loss of Queens in Mating and Super- 

 seding 58 



Many Bees for Much Honey 58 



Maple Honey 59 



Mild Winter .- 58 



More Beesor Better Yields-Which ?--- 58 

 Pattern After Successful Bee-Keepers- 58 



Poorest Season in Years 58 



Poor Season 59 



Season a Failure in Nevada 57 



Watering Bees 57 



Will Work for Honey Next Year 5; 



Wintering 57 



An Invitation to Readers 



As the time of longer evenings is 

 again arriving, we would like to invite 

 our readers to send in their reports of 

 the season of 1907 with the bees. 



It may be, also, that some have been 

 trying experiments, or have had some 

 things to develop that wouH be of in- 



terest to all. If so, we would like to 

 have such write out their experiences 

 for publication, and send them in. No 

 doubt what you have read in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal has been a great help 

 to you, so why not you add your mite 

 to the general fund of information about 

 bees? 



