December, 1908. 



American Hee Journal 



Index to Volume XLVlll 



SUBJECTS 



Absconding swarms — 279. 



Abundant stort-s, influence of — 229, 237. 



Acid in thick sugar syrup — i8r. 



Adulteration of honey — 367. 



Advantages of Association membership — 24. 



Advertising honey — 231, 261, 262, 359. 



Advertising honey-plants — i So. 



Advertising queen-bees — 265. 



Advice to beginners — 122. 



Afterswarms — 25, 88. 



Afterswarms. preventing — 85. 



Agave Americana — 151. 



Age of bees — how they grow — 3^^. 



Age of Combs — 166, 230. 



Age of larvx for queen-rearing— 25. 



Age of Queens — 45, 358, 362. 



Agriculture, extensive work in — 80. 



Air-space in super cover — 85. 



Alberts' bees and bee-paper companions — 58. 



Alfalfa— 205, 211. 271. 



Alfalfa honey — 331. 



Alfilerilla — 340. 



Almond paste — 137. 



Alsike clover — 26, 142. 



Alsike clover seed — 86. 



"Among the saccharine hives" — 297. 



Ants — 117, 176. 



Aphididae, or plant lice — 48. 



Aphids. natural history of — 48. 



Apiarian exhibit at Indiana Fair — 360. 



Apiarian exhibition, three days — 276. 



Apiarian exhibits and premiums at Fairs — 71. 



Apiarian rights of priority — 80, 112, 154, 174. 



Apiary in Arizona — 168. 



Apiary of M. M. Baldridge — 330. 



Apiary of B. F. Bartholomew— 233. 



Apiary of D. J. Blocher — 105. 



Apiary of Freeman Davis — 200. 



Apiary of George W. Delano— 232. 



Apiary of L. B. EUiston — 200. 



Apiary of E. M. Frame— 264. 



Apiary of Walter Goss — 213. 



Apjary of J. W. Griffin— 201. 



Apiary of George Kirker — 263. 



Apiary of C. A. Mangus — 314. 



Apiary of D. Meuser — 139. 



Apiary of Nebraska Amateur — 239. 



Apiary of C. B. Palmer— 359. 



Apiary of A. Kehnstrom & Sons — 359. 



Apiary of W. H. Rickstrew — 330. 



Apiary of A. H. Shelton — 330. 



Apiary of D. E. Wood — 263. 



Apifuge — 280. 



Arkansas as bee-State — 245. 



Articles for newspapers — 2$ i . 



Artificial heat for extracting — 199. 



"Attic" bee-keeping — 121. 



Average yield per colony — 87, 185. 



Averill's plan with foundation splints — 213. 



Avoiding weak colonies in spring — 282. 



Bait-section — 24, 119. 

 Bait-section, position of — 182. 

 Baldridge plan of treating foul brood — 205. 

 Balm attracting swarms — 118. 

 Basswood as boney-yielder — 38. 

 Bee-diseases — 142, 143. 

 Bee-diseases in Massachusetts — 232. 

 Bee-eating birds — 183. 

 Bee-escapes — 1 52, 248. 

 Bee-experience, some — 28, 122, 346. 

 Bcc-gloves and clean hands — 36 1 . 

 Bee-hives for the business-man — 268, 369. 

 Bee-inspection law of New Mexico — 40. 

 Bee-keepers a clean people — 75. 

 Bee-keepers and bee-papers — 44, 345. 

 Bee-Keepers' Complaint, (poem) — 71. 

 Bee-keepers, not more but better — 141. 

 Bee-keepers, our fair — 19. 

 Bee-keeping and vegetable-growing — 270. 

 Bee-keeping fads — 27. 

 Bee-keeping for boys — 218. 

 Bee-keeping for women — 10, 41. 

 Bee-keeping in agricultural papers- 

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-367. 



Kansas — 57. 



Maryland — 2^2. 



Missouri— 282. 



New Zealand — 133. 



Oklahoma — 89. 

 Bee-keeping profitable ? — 37. 

 Bee-keeping quite a business — 263. 

 "Bee-Line Home, The" (poem)— 361 

 Bee-moth — 52. 



Bee no small affair. The— 346. 

 Bee-papers for beginners — 121. 

 Bee-papers, reading — 82. 

 Bee-papers, starting new — 296. 

 Bees absconding when shaken — 103. 

 Bees and blossoms — 115. 

 *"Bccs and boys" — 44. 

 Bees and pouItr>- — 333, 365. 

 Bees and the agricultural press — 275. 



Bees as weather-prophets — 358. 



Bees buzz with their "buzzums" — 138. 



Bee-scouts — 27, 



Bees deserted, perhaps — 217. 



Bees deteriorating — 54. 



Bees dying in winter — 54- 



Bees find home before swarming — 218. 



Bees hard to work with — 121. 



Bees in a "vinegary" cellar — 89. 



Bees in sun or shade? — 280. 



Bees leaving hivt* — 56. 



Bees near street — 215. 



Bee-space or quilts over frames — 212. 



Bees return from swarm with old queen — 299. 



Bees shaking or "waltzing" — 366. 



Bees still shaded at University — 19. 



Bees that "make" the honey — 20. 



Bee-stings, to prevent — 327. 



Beeswax and digestion — 241, 269, 305. 



Beeswax, clarifying — 147. 



Beeswax instead of honey- — 312. 



Beeswax wood-polish — 36:. 



Bees well supplied for winter — 339. 



Bee-talk in day-school — 360. 



Bee-territory and legislation — 79. 



Bee-tree— 28. 



Bee-ware, where to get — 274. 



Bee- way sections — 246. 



Beginner and foul brood— 184. 



Beginners' questions — 120, 246, 277. 



Beginning in bee-keeping — 47, 56, 247, 266, 



278. 3U- 

 Benton on bees, Ralph — 274. 

 Best comb-honey hive — 151. 

 Best hive — 151, 184. 

 Best hive for extracting — 182, 

 Best hive for wintering out-doors — 85. 

 Best section — 216. 

 Best size of hive— 362. 

 Best super arrangement — 373- 

 Best sweet for children — 368. 

 Bevins Brothers' apiary — 345. 

 Billions of bees at work — 311. 



BlOCRAPHy OF— 



Alexander, E. W.— 362. 

 Amos, Arabella Love — 297. 

 France, Edwin — 76. 

 Hilton, Geo. E. — 7. 



Birds and bees in the South — 134. 



Birds and Bees, The (poem)— 138. 



Black drones in Italian nucleus — 277. 



Blacks running out Italians — 310. 



Boardman-AIexander feeder — 214. 



Borage as a honey-plant — 103. 



Bottom-board depth — 117. 



Bottom-starters built first — 309. 



Bottom-starters in sections— 89, 140, 180. 



Bountiful crops and low prices — 357. 



Box-hive colonies — 25. 



Breeding bees — 54. 



Breeding from best honey-gatherers — 21. 



Breeding in the cellar — 20. 



Breeding queens or drones from best — 70. 



Brood and honey in same frame — 280. 



Brood-comb without a frame, straight — 246. 



Brood-frames in winter — 278. 



Brood- rearing — 372. 



Brood-rearing in and out of cellar — 38. 



Brood rearing in winter — 109, 122, 170, 217. 



Brood, starved or chilled — 279. 



Broom-weed honey — off-grade — 365. 



Buckwheat and Honey (poem) — 249. 



Buckwheat as honey-plant — 236. 



Buckwheat honey — 367. 



Buckwheat story — 306. 



Buckwheat yield in clover, does — 309. 



Bulk comb honey — 56, 106. 



Bumble-Bee. The (poem)— 169. 



Bumble-bees — 89. 



Bumble-bees to the Philippines — 45. 



Bumping bees off frames — 88. 



Butterfly weed— 218. 



Buying nuclei — 117. 



Buying old hives with bee-disease — 165. 



Buying queens — 265. 



;re to put — 11, 206. 



of M. H. Mendleson — 295. 

 , two— 330. 359- 



-373- 



Caged queens, wh 



California apiaries 



California apiaries 



California bee — 51. 



Cappings, device for- 



Carelessness — 2 1 8. 



Caring for empty combs and ridding them of 



moth-larvs — 1 12. 

 Carniolan Bees — 45. "5. 182, 237, 247- 

 Carniolans vs. Caucasians — 247. 

 Carrying hives — 119- 

 Cartons for comb honey — 229. 

 Catalpas for apiary shade — 58. 

 Caucasian bees — 23, 42, 198, 244, 247, 275, 338, 



342. 

 Caucasian bees and Funics — 109. 

 Caucasians vs. Italians as honey-gatherers — 23. 

 Cellar for wintering bees — 277. ^ 

 Cellar or second story for bees in winter — 373. 

 Cellar-wintering of bees — 50, 339, 343. 

 Chaff cushions — 280. 

 Chaff-hives vs. single-wall hives — 342. 

 Changing bees from hive to hive — 116. 



Changing from Heddon to Langstroth frames — 



Changing names — 83. 

 Chartging suners^373. 

 Chemistry of honey and fats — 168. 

 Chestnut lumber for hives — 53. 

 Chicago-Northwestern convention — 360. 

 Chilled brood and foul brood— 120. 

 Chunk honey vs. section honey — 85. 

 Circumventing the pilfering bees — 210. 

 City apiary, successful — 330. 

 Clarifying beeswax— 147. 

 Cleaning and casing honey — 106. 

 Cleaning separators with lye — 41. 

 Cleansing beeswax with acid — 278. 

 Clipping gueens — 212, 281. 

 C^losing hives when spraying bloom — 118. 

 (Tlover for honey and hay — 28. 

 Clover, White Italian inferior — 38. 

 Cockroaches and bees — iiQ- 

 Colony deserted queen — 312. 

 Colony perhaps swarmed out — 342- 

 Color of honey — 148. 



Comb and extracted honey from same col- 

 ony — 38. 

 Comb and extracted honey from same super — 



59. 



116, 



39. 



Comb honey and digestion — 241, 269. 

 Comb-hnnev colonies short of stores- 

 "Comb Honey Proved True" — loi. 

 Comb honey seeping out — 313. 

 Comb honey shrinking — 87. 

 Comb-honey supers, honey-gates, etc.- 

 Comb honey vs. extracted — 38, 244- 

 Comb or extracted honey — 86. 

 Combs built together — 152. 

 Comb built to bottom-bars— 244. 

 Combs, care of — 357. 

 Concrete winter-cases — 281. 

 Controlling swarming— 1 17. M3. >85- 

 Controversialists should keep cool — 1 

 Conventions among bee-hives — 205. 



Convention Reports — 



Michigan — 146- 



New Jersey — 115. 



New York — 81. 



Ontario — 366. 



Pennsylvania — 17- 



Texas — 172. 237. 

 Cooking sugar syrup for feeding bees — 50. 

 Co-operation among bee-keepers — no, 171. 

 Co-operation without organization — 139. 

 Cotton as honey-plant — 42. 

 Covering for bees in cellar — 343- 

 Crippled bee-keeper and apiary— 303. 

 Crooked combs — 53. 

 Crop for honey and produce — 55- 

 Cross bees — 298. 



Crushing bees when handling frames — 325- 

 Cultivated honey-plants for Texas— 203. 

 Cutting out queen-cells — 247, 342, 344- 

 Cyprian bees — 42, 140- 

 Cytisus in California — 19. 

 Dadant system — 142. 

 Dahlias for honey and pollen — 307. 

 Daisies— 246. 



Daisv foundation-fastener, managing — 54- 

 Dandelion bloom — 361. 

 Dandelions and morning-glories — 20. 

 Danger from foul brood — 345- 

 Danger of glass with honey — 20. 

 Danzenbaker and sectional hives— 183. 

 Danzenbaker hive — 118. 



Dark brood-combs and color of honey — 339, 305- 

 Davis, John M., and apiaries— 136. 

 Dead bees and granulated honey — 185. 



Death of— 



Mrs. Amos — 265. 



Mrs. F. Danzenbaker — 7»- 



C. Davenport— 231. 



Mr. King's daughter — 211. 



David E. Merrill— 166. 



Tohn Misner — 201. 



Zoubareff— 276, 



Deaths, four in one family — 71- 



Demand for honey, increasing — 269, 371. 



Demonstrations at fairs, bee — 341- 



Dented queen — 217. 



Detroit National convention notes — 32». 



Device for cappings — 373- 



Dewey foundation-fastener — 152. 



Diarrhea in cellar-wintering, bee — 369. 



Did you ever stop to think? — 238. 



Difference in bees — 85, 217. 



Differences in feeding bees — 180. _ _ 



Different flowers on same trip, bees visiting— 



315- 

 Digestion, beeswax and — 241, 269, 305. 

 Diseased brood — 2 16. 

 Diseases of bees — 142, i43- 

 Disinfected hives, using — 119. 

 Disposing of big drones — 215. 

 Distribute your apiaries — 172. 

 Dividing colonies — 152- 



Divisible brood-chamber hive — 12, 75, 107,373. 

 Does shipping bees affect their queens? — 184. 

 Double hive-covers — 280. 

 Double-wall hives — 74. 



