December, 1908. 



American ^ee Journal 



Double zinc — 282. 



Doubling an apiary -and securing honey — 24. 



Drone-brood in worker-cells — 185. 



Drone-comb in extracting-supers — 325. 



Drone-laying queens and laying workers — 85. 



Drones — 54. 



Drones affected by queen's mating, 49, 103, 



^ 135. 144. 



Drumming bees — 344. 



Dry as a chip — 268. 



Dual virgin queen plan — 6. 



Dudley tube — 151, 215. 



Dudley Tube Method— 86. 



Early Busybodies — 210. 



Early-reared queen — 55, 212. 



Early requeening — 53. 



Early spring feeding for bees — 214. 



Early swarming — 1 5 r . 



Eating comb honey — 53. 



Education, liberal — 80. 



Effect of stores on a colony — 229, 237. 



Eight or ID frame hive ? — 37;^. 



Empty combs, caring for and ridding of moth- 



301 



Entrance treatment of robber-bees — 73. 



Equalizing brood — 298. 



Equipment for extracted honey — 373. 



Essentials in bee-keeping, some prime — 22. 



Eucalyptus— 114, 337. 



Eucalyptus honey — 340. 



Exhibit at fairs, bee-keepers' — 299. 



Exhibiting and selling granulated honey — 6, 79. 



Exhibits of bee-fixtures — 341. 



Exhibits to help honey demand — 363. 



Experience with bees, a sister's interesting — 



332' 

 Experimenting with bees — 56, 146. 

 Ex-stenographer's success with bees, poultry, 



and fruit — 137. 

 Extracted honey — 185, 298. 

 Extracting frames and sections, best — 84. 

 Extracting honey — 146. 

 Extractors and extracting — 280. 

 Eye on climate and business — 210. 



Fall and spring feeding — 12, 177, 207. 



"Fall dwindling" ojt bees — 109. 



Fall-built combs — 28. 



Fall honey for winter food — 82. 



Farmer-bee-keeper and alsike — 140. 



Fastening comb- foundation — 24, 245, 



Father vs. Bees (poem) — 298. 



Faults of bee-papers — 299. 



Feeder, good fall — 339. 



Feeders and feed — 268. 



Feeding back — 372. 



Feeding bees, differences in — 180. 



Feeding bees glucose, sorghum, and candies — 



Feeding bees in winter — 38, 54, 70, 116, 294, 



312, 342. 

 Feeding burnt sugar syrup — 56. 

 Feeding candied honey — 86, 117. 

 Feeding for increase — 117. 

 Feeding for winter pays — 26. 

 Feeding granulated sugar — 280. 

 Feeding, outdoor — 307. 

 Feeding, spring — 117, 118, 177, 207, 214. 

 Feeding sugar candy in cellar — 27. 

 Feeding sugar rather than honey for winter 



stores— 339. 

 Feeding sugar syrup — 13, 48, 121, 138, 245, 



312, 346. 

 Fences a drawback, short — 28. 

 Few swarms— 236. 

 Finding queens — 215. 

 Finding queens after harvest — 138. 

 Fine February "Swarm'* — 74. 

 Filling sections with comb-foundation — 78. 

 Fixings, too many fussy — 275. 

 Floating apiary on the Mississippi — 294. 

 Florence makes and paints hives — 104. 

 Flowering wild currant— 84. 

 Food that fills the bill— 240. 

 Foul brood — 85, 205, 280, 310, 362. 

 Foul brood and supers — 312. 

 Foul brood and treatment — 81, 205. 

 Foul brood and wax-worms-^— 1 19. 

 Foul brood inspectors' reports — 366. 

 Foul brood in spring, treating — 119. 

 Foul brood law for Illinois— 178. 

 Foul brood-laws, objection to — 212. 

 Foul brood not from comb-foundation — 280. 

 Foul brood not in California — 151. 

 Foul brood, prevention of — 74. 

 Foul-broody combs for extracting combs — 54. 

 Foundation — 140, 213. 

 Foundation splints — 86, 213, 279, 310, 331, 



342. 

 Foundation without wiring — 136. 

 Frames built together — 280. 

 Franco- British bee-keepers' congress — 169. 

 FreiKht-rate extortion — ^o. 

 Fuel for bee-smoker — 24^^, 278, 362. 

 Fuller's plan of queen-rearing— 294. 

 Fumigating comb-nonc-y — 3 1 2. 

 Future of bee-keepinc — 165. 

 Future of the honey-business — 115. 



•Gasoline for foul brood — 341. 



Gathering from sour-fruit — 277. 



Getting bees out of extracting supers — 244. 



Getting bees to work — 246. 



Getting increase and honey — 86, 117, 137. 



Getting into the bee-business — 278. 



Getting things wrong — 340. 



Getting ready for surplus — 113. 



Getting sections built solid for shipping — 181. 



Giving^ swarms to weak colonies — 134. 



Glass-side supers — 374. 



Glucose, let glucose be labeled — ^y. 



Gluers, genuine — 313. 



Gnawing foundation — 278. 



Gnawing of separators, preventing — 53. 



Golden Italian bees — 55. 



Good queen reared by "mere handful" of bees 



Got a bee in it — 103. 



Government aid for the bee-industry, more — 



172, 366. 

 Gradmg colonies of bees — 294. 

 "Grandpa Hutchinson" telling stories — 105. 

 Granulated honey — 273. 

 Guarantee of honey — 39. 



Handling bees at a fair — 296. 



Handling bees in the city — 28. 



Handling extracted honey — 373. 



Hauling bees before cellaring them — 24. 



"Hawaiian honey" — 15 1 , 359, 



Hawaiian honey, cheap — 151. 



Heartsease — 183, 247. 



Heat in brood-nest, confinement of — 134. 



Heating honey, a kink in — 52. 



Heating of extracting combs, caution in — 250. 



Heat may have caused swarming — 216. 



Heat of the colony — 372. 



Heat of insects — 206. 



He'll make a bee-keeper — 282. 



Helping sale of honey — 334. 



Historical — 186. 



History of bee-keeping — 82. 



Hive-cover, iron — 117. 

 Hive-dimensions, standard — 56. 

 Hive, 8 or 10 frame — 373. 

 Hive-entrances — 277, 342. 

 Hive-entrances in winter — 118. 

 Hive-lifter, a living — 73, 170, 298. 

 Hive-lifting devices — 11, 116, 233. 

 Hives — 268, 277, 301. 

 Hives — 268, 277, 301. 

 Hives and supers — 177. 

 Hive-stands — 308. 

 Hiving swarms — 20, 280. 

 Hiving while 



Holding over comb honey — 357. 

 Home-made bee-hives — 120. 

 Holy Land bees — 42. 

 Honey absolutely pure — 86. 

 Honey a luxury, is — 21. 

 Honey and lemons — 83. 

 Honey and the Pure Food Law — 78. 

 Honey as anti-dyspeptic agent — 300. 

 Honey as cure for diseased eyes — 203. 

 Honey as food — 106. 

 Honey as food and medicine — 361. 

 Honey average per colony — 143. 

 Honey-bees and red clover — 300. 

 Honey-bees, wee — 275. 

 Honey below the brood — 7. 

 Honey, chunk or section — 118. 

 Honey cough syrup — 182. 

 Honey crops, large — 299. 

 Honey drops for coughs and colds — 202. 

 Honey-eaters* league — 16. 

 Honey from New York to Detroit — 72. 

 Honey from sunflowers — 373. 

 Honey gargle for sore throat — 106. 

 Honey-granulation, prevention of — 214. 

 Honey-house, building, a — 216. 

 Honey-house for 50 colonies — 1 16. 

 Honey in brood-ncst — 183. 

 Honey in California — 89. 

 Honey in cookies — 173. 

 Honey in winter brood-chamber — 281. 

 Honey-knives — 281, 365. 

 Honey lotion for chapped hands — 137. 

 Honey-plants — 28, 216. 

 Honey-plants, Southern — 89. 

 Honey poisonous, is — 20^^. 

 Honey results, contrasts in — 106. 

 Honey-sections, best — 50. 

 Honey-tanks, depth of — 52. 

 Honey-vinegar — 75, no, 341. 

 Honey- vinegar, keeping qualities of — 145. 

 Honey vs. sugar for cake — 214. 

 Honey wafers — 10. 

 Honey with holes, section — 117. 

 "Honor to whom honor" — 268. 

 Horsemint and yellow sweet clover — 267. 

 How bees distinguish color — 244. 

 How bees grow — 336. 

 How the bees swarm — 206. 

 How I lost in two apiaries — 43. 

 How much honey does a colony of bees con- 

 sume during a year? — 372. 

 How to get bees in a hive — 105. 

 How we evened our bees — 169. 

 Hunting bees — 270. 

 Hunting bees in Texas — 20. 76. 



Hybrid bees and Italians — 23. 

 Hybrids vs. Italians — 85, 87. 

 Hydrometer for density of liquids- 



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Illinois State convention — 360. 



Immune to stings, becoming — 250. 



Imperial Valley, bees in — 276. 



Importance of timber belts — 337. 



Imported honey — 367. 



Improving the bees— 43, 58, 145. 



Improving bees under natural swarming — 151. 



Increase— 28, 55, 74, 85, 152, 182, 217. 277. 



Increase and honey — 152. 



Increase and improving stock — 119. 



Increase with box-hives — 119. 



Increase without swarming — 151. 



Increasing convention attendance — 341. 



Increasing use of honey — 367, 371. 



Incubator for bees — 281. 



Indiana bee-keepers, to — 233. 



Insuring bees — 86. 



Interest in bees, increased — 248, 249. 



Interesting experiment — 1 18. 



Interesting questions — 55. 



Introducing after flow, difficulty of — 299. 



Introducing cells and virgin queens — 265. 



Introducing queens — 197, 215, 216, 248, 279, 



294. 299, 373. 

 Invertible super — 342. 

 Iowa apiary — 345. 



Italian and black bees mixing — 218. 

 Italian bees, genuine — 277- 

 Italian-Caucasian bees — 56. 

 Italian differences — 246. 

 Italianizing— 85. 184, 215. 

 Italians and blacks as to diseases — 71. 

 Italians as fighters and wax-makers — 343. 



Japanese clover — 245. 



Judging comb honey, points in — 23. 



Jumbo hive — 342. 



Keeping bees alive- 



Keeping bees 

 Keeping bees 

 Keeping bee 

 Keeping do\ 

 Keeping qi 



-238. 



neighbors- 

 on a small lot- 

 on shares — 22. 

 grass in the apiary- 

 winter — 343. 



Kicking up the dust — 275. 

 Kind of hive— isi, 184. 

 Kinds of bees, various — 216. 

 Koumis with honey — 170. 



Labeling extracted honey — 230. 



Labels on tin, pasting — 7. 



Labrador tea— 218. 



Lady queen-breeders — 265. 



Langstroth and the removable frame — 52. 



Langstroth hive the standard — 293. 



Langstroth or shallow-frames for extracting — 



243- 

 Large-hive out-apiary — 167. 

 Larpe vs. small hives — 141, 173, 242. 

 Large vs. small supers — 166. 

 Larvs for grafting, size of — 310. 

 LarvK for queen-rearing — 327. 

 Late laying of queens for young bees in win- 



ter— 373. 

 Late mating of queens — 26. 

 Late pollen — 373. 

 Late queenless colony — 312. 

 Laying workers — 24, 85. 

 Learning about bees — 212. 

 Leneth of bees* tongues — 276. • 



Light in the bee-cellar — 5. 

 Like foul brood — 114. 

 Liquefying extracted honey — 69. 

 Liquefying honey with hot air — 180. 

 Locating an apiary — 175, 304. 

 Longevity among bees — 137. 

 Losses of bees in winter — 147, 247. 

 Loss in feeding bees — 5. 

 Loss of heat in hives — 308. 



I,oss of queens in mating and superseding — 58. 

 Low-grade honey, effect of — 59. 

 Lubricant for foundation mill rolls — 277. 

 Lumber for hives — 117. 



" 'Lyeing' Business," originated the — 119. 

 Making hives — 215. 

 Making more bee-keepers — 69, 344. 

 Management for increase of honey — 87. 

 Many bees for much honey — 58. 

 Maple honey — 59- 

 "Marigold" honey — 11, 76. 

 Marketing honey — 82, 152, 213, 240, 262, 276, 



309. 325. 330. 334, 336, 366. 

 Market in Illinois, honey — 308. 

 Mary Was a Bee-Keepcr (poem) — 248. 

 Mating and longevity, slow — 276. 

 Mating Italians with blacks — 281. 

 Melting honey in cans — 20. 

 Mcrcv in a "fine" comb — 41- 

 Mercy in the comb — 9. 

 Mercy like chunk honey — it's good — 51. 

 Mesquite bloom, when docs — 173. 

 Milkweed— 236, 278, 369. 

 Miller frames— 53- 

 Miller's, short visit to Dr. — 331. 

 Miller tent-escapes and young bees — 358. 

 Millions in honey — 44. 

 Mold in hives — 119. 

 Money in bcc-kecping — 346- 



