December, 1908. 



American Hea Journal 



377 



More bees or better yields — which? — 14, 58. 



Moths, gipsy and red-tailed — 176. 



Moth remedy — 248. 



Moths — 27, 277, 281, 298, 327. 



"Mount Nebo" Apiary — 168. 



Moving an Arizona apiary — 303. 



Moving bees — 53, 85, 279, 3^1. 



Moving bees to Northern Michigan — 23. 



Moving bees with open hive-entrances — 236. 



Music-charmed bees — 10. 



Mustard for bees — 13. 



Nailed sections — 180. 



Nail-spacers — ^3. 



National Bee-Keepers* Association election r 



suit — 360. 

 Natural swarming wanted— 86. 

 Needed officials — 176. 

 New location — 49. 

 New method of warfare — 176. 

 New methods in bee-keeping — 206. 

 Newspapers for wintering — 121. 

 New Zealand bee-bulletins — 180. 

 New Zealand honey in Europe — 134. 

 Nomenclature of queens — 198, 207. 

 Non-swarming plan, failure of — 229. 

 Non-swarming secret — 117, 246. 

 North Carolina apiary — 365. 

 North Carolina sister — 169. 

 Northern Michigan bee-country — 1 22. 

 Nuclei for increase — 28, 118, 213. 

 Nuclei, good results from — 26. 

 Nuclei, shipping by freight — 183. 

 Nuclei, starting — 180, 236. 

 Nucleus— 280. 

 Nucleus queen — 246. 

 Number of colonies for the field — 25. 



Observations in bee-keeping — 143. 



Observatory hive — 118. 



Observation hive for wintering — 86. 



Octogenarian bee editor — 103. 



"Odessa" apiar>' — 200. 



Oil-cloth for winter hive-protection — 23. 



Ontario apiary, a neat — 273. 



Ontario bee-inspeclion work — 236. 



Optimism of an Irish editor — 165. 



Overhauling bees — 272. 



Over 60 years ago — 122. 



Overstocking — 15. 



Packing bees for winter — 86, 119, 152, 278, 

 302, 312. 



Packing comb honey for shipment — 326. 



Painting against robber-bees — 213. 



Painting shipping-cases — 87. 



Paper hive protection in winter — 312. 



Paper receptacles for honey — 38. 



Paralysis — 24. 



Parcels post and bee-keepers — 27. 



Partly filled sections — 278. 



Pattern after successful bee-keepers — 58. 



Peach-belt location for bees — 25. 



Perhaps queenless and being robbed — 74. 



Personal reminiscences — 87. 



Pickled brood — 366. 



Pin-money, honey — 1 70. 



Placing stores for wintering — 312. 



Plant lice^ aphididae or — 48. 



Plea for Spring (poem) — 72. 



Pleasures like bees carry a sting? — 19. 



Plural queen system — 6, 52, 104, iii. 



Poison mixture for rats and mice — 75. 



Poisonous, is honey — 203. 



Pollination — 304. 



Pollen in extracting supers — 277. 



Pollen in frames of comb honey — 87, 243. 



Pollen in sections — 183, 277. 



Pollen for winter — 281. 



Position of frames — 54. 



Position of frames in spring — 24. 



"Pound" sections — 152. 



Practical and potential pointers — 176. 



Preparing bees for moving — 370. 



Preparing comb honey for market — 10. 



Preparing for honey harvest — 77- 



Preparing for next season — 370. 



Preventing second swarms — 1 19. 



Prices for honey — 37, 85. 



Prices of bees — 143. 



Producing comb and extracted — 312. 



Production and sale of first-class honey — 122. 



Production of honey — 82. 



Profits on comb ana extracted honey — 6. 



Prolificness of queens — 70. 



Propolis — 120, 242. 



Propolis and pollen, uses of — 242. 



Propolis knife — 280. 



Propolis on tops of stctions — 53. 



Protecting bees for winter — 50. 



Protecting hives with paper — 134. 



Publishers and bee-supply dealers vs. honey- 

 producers — 364. 



Pure air in bee-cellar — 5. 



Pure food law — 206. 



Pure food laws and honey demand — 148. 



Putting comb foundation in frames — 106, in. 



Putting on supers — 53. 



Suarantine laws — 176- 

 ueen and drone traps — 152. 



Queen and hat — 206. 



UucLii and th.- swarm— 282. 



Queen behavior— 141. 



Queen-breeders, lady — 265. 



Queen-cell, queer place for — 39. 



Oueen-cells, cutting out — 247. 



(Jueen-cells, location of — 86. 



Queen experience — 121. 



Queen food, wonderful — 15. 



Queenless colonies- — 357- 



Ouccniess colony and pollen — 246- 



QvKi-nless colony, best appearance of — 277. 



"Qucenlessness" — 299. 



Queenlessness, how soon discovered — 6. 



Qucenlessness, signs of — 309, 343. 



Queenless swarm — 246. 



Queen, perhaps old — 277. 



Queen questions, some — 279. 



Queen-rearing — 56, 82, 152, 209, 215, 270, 294. 



Queen-rearing book — 24. 



Queen-rearing for women— 202, 331. 



Queens, age of— 45. 358, 362. 



Oueens and drones — 120. 



eueens and excluders — 183. 

 ucens and queen-rearing — 270. 

 Queens and requeening, old — 262. 

 Oueens, how to rear better — 209. 

 Queens in cells by mail— 87. 

 Oueens, introducing — 197, 215. 



8ueens lost at mating-time — 54. 

 _ucens, prolificness of — 70. 

 Pueens to prevent swarming — 367. 

 Queens untested, tested, etc. — 207. 

 * Queen" under the hat — 231. 

 Queer swarms— 85. 

 Queer things bees do — 26. 

 Questions, a sister's — 234. 



Rapid consumption of stores, cause of — 76. 



Raspberry pastures burned, Michigan — 357. 



Rate of gathering — 52. 



Rats and bees — 73. 



Reading bee-literature — 26. 



Rearing breeding queens — 342. 



Rearing queens — 56, 82, 1 52, 209, 215. 270, 



294. 343- 

 Red-clover bees — 182, 300. 

 Red-clover, second-crop — 215. 

 Reliquefying granulated honey — 80. 

 Removing honey from hives — 265. 

 Removing eggs — 243. 



Removing sections from wide frames — 78. 

 Renewing queens — 51. 

 Reports, honey crop — 102. 

 Requeening — 25, 26, 53, S5» 82, 119, I34, I42» 



151. 183. I97» 206, 215, 246, 262, 277, 342, 



374- 

 Requeenmg by unqueening — 197. 

 Reversible bottom-board — 144- 

 Robber-bees — 210, 215. 

 Robber-bees, entrance treatment of — 73. 

 Robber-flies — 305, 366. 

 Robber-trap — 344- 

 Robbing — 276. 



Robbing, strange case of — 181. 

 Room bee-escape — 248. 



Sale of honey — 30 v 



Salt as moth remedy — 89. 



Salt for bees — 216. 



Saltpeter rags — 373. 



Salt to kill weeds — 247. 



Sapolio vs. propolis — 340. 



Scrapings and cappings mean money — 114. 



Section foundation — 84. 



Sections in brood-chamber — 22. 



Sections, standard size of — 243. 



Seed bed for alfalfa — 271. 



Seeping out, comb honey — 313- 



Selling bees without combs — 38. 



Selling comb honey to hotels — 152. 



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



309. 325, 334. 336- 

 Separators — 88. 



Separators, cleaning with lye — 41- 

 September swarms — 361. 

 Shaken swarms — 3 1 1 . 



Shallow hives and pollen in sections — 133. 

 S.ie Got It Kerwhack (poem) — 297. 

 Shipping bees by express — 293, 312, 345. 

 Shipping comb honey — 312. 

 Shinning nuclei by freight — 183. 

 Short cuts in apiary — 367. 

 Short-lived bees — 54- 



Shredded wheat biscuit and honey — 278. 

 Simple reoueening without buying queens — 55. 

 Sister an extensive bee-keeper — 361. 

 Sister queen-breeder — 331. 

 Sister's experience with bees — 170. 

 Sluf. a borer — 48. 

 "Slumgumming" invention — 151. 

 Smoker-fuel — 24!?, 278. 362. 

 Sowing alsike clover for bees — 143. 

 Sowing sweet clover seed — 53. 

 Spac^ under bottom-bars — 215. 

 Spacing brood- frames — 298. 

 Specialt\' vs. amateur bee-keeping — 310. 

 Speed of bees — 52. 

 Splinting foundation — 54- 

 Splints for frames, wood — 216. 

 Split sections — 331. 



Spraying fruit-trees in bloom — 118, 204. 



Spring dwindling and pollen — 215. 



Spring examination, time for — 76. 



Spring vs. fall feeding — 207. 



Starting nuclei — 180. 



Starved brood— 152. ' 



State Entomologist and foul brood — 310. 



Storing comb honey — 216. 



Storing in brood frames — 266. 



Stray swarm in December— 120. 



Strengthening weak colonies in spring — 198, 



Strong bees overpower weaker ones — 245. 

 Strong colonies and "worms" — 299. 

 Strong colonies desirable as well as profit- 

 able — 46. 

 Stung by an angel — 182. 

 Sugar candy for bees — 50. 

 Sugar syrup in section hone^ — 55. 

 Sulphur cure for bee-paralysiSr— 24. 

 Summer honey-drink — 1 69. 

 Sunflowers — 3^3. 373- 

 Supers and sections — 24. 

 Superseding — :i, 45, 75, 246, 299, 362. 

 Supersedure — 198. 

 Supers for comb honey — 50. 

 Supers under brood-chamber — 277. 

 Suppress swarming and help honey crop — 214. 

 Surplus, getting ready for — 113. 

 Swarming— 22, 56, 117, 121, 215, 217, 249, 



Swarming indications — 308. 



Swarming out and robbing — 182. 



Swarming, prevention of — 70. "7» 118, 119, 



152, 183, 206, 215, 247. 342. 343» 367. 

 Swarming propensity of Caucasians — 245. 

 Swarming, to avoid as much as possible — 197. 

 Swarm leaving colony queenless — 294. 

 Swarm on arm and hand — 166. 

 Swarms from swarming, preventing — 215. 

 Swarms with clipped queens — 216. 

 Sweet clover— 7, 22, 215, 242, 314- 

 Sweet clover for honey and hay — 215. 



Tags for hives — 54- 



Take sections off hives in fall — 295. 



Taking off honey— 331- 



Taking off supers — 217. 



Tar-paper for hive-protection — 53. 



"Tasted Like Honey" — 52- 



Telephones for out-apiaries — 330. 



Temperature of bee-cellar — 88. 



Ten-frame hive preferred — 143- 



Testing honey as to ripeness — 5. 



Thanksgiving Hymn (poem) — 344- 



Therapeutic value of honey — 106. 



Thick extracting combs — 181. 



Three-band Italians and other races of bees— 



42. 

 Tincture of myrrh for bee-stings — 344- 

 Titoff, Mr.— Russian Apiarian Expert— 150. 

 Toads— 278. 



Tobacco preferred to bee-literature — 213. 

 Tongues, length of bees* — 276. 

 Tonsorial apiarist — 210. 

 Too much honey in winter — 171- 

 Top and bottom starters — 88. 

 Tough time with bees — 170. 

 Transferring and feeding bees — 117. 

 Transferring bees— 24, 25, 56, 117. "8, 216. 



245. 266, 277. 279. 281, 344- 

 Transferring from box-hives — 53, 217, 266. 

 Transferring of larvje in queen-rearing— 176. 

 Troublesome swarm — 248. 

 T-supers — 56, 247, 331. 

 Twenty days from eggs to queens — 141- 

 Two queens in one hive — 14, 26, 144. i5i- 

 Two queens with clipped stings— 71. 



Uncapped sections — 247. 



Uncapping honey — 309. 



Uncapping machine — 261, 306, 367. 



"Uncle Joe's" bee-keeping career — 71. 



Uniting colonies— 268, 297, 325, 326, 341, 374- 



Unpainted hives — 183, 373- 



Unsealed cells of honey— 280. 



Up Stroke or Down Stroke— Who Knows? 



(poem) — 210. 

 Using empty combs — 152. 

 Using hives and supers after foul brood— 84,. 



343- 



Valuable ideas on bees— 86. 



Value of box-hive colonies — 25. 



Value of dandelion bloom — 361. 



Ventilating section-supers — 229. 



Ventilation, hive— 118, 333. 344- 



Ventilation of hives in the cellar— 37. 



Ventilation to repress swarming- 230, 358. 



Very un-American — 210. 



Vinegar in the bee-cellar— 55. 89- 



Virgin queens — 215. 



Virgin swarms — 197. 27^. 



Visiting Canadian Northwest— 264. 



"Waltzing" bees — 366. 



Watering beees — 57- 



W^atering bees in winter — 27. 



Wax-moth — 142. 



Wax-production — 372. 



Weak colonies and moths — 281. 



W^eak colonies in spring— 55- 



