December, 191 1. 



American ^ee Journ jjj 



Manufactured comb-honey He — 106. 

 Marketing honey — 17, 47, 114, 139, 242, 



271. 274, 297, 358, 367. 

 Material for honey extractors and tanks — ■ 



147- 

 Mating of queens — 119, 147, 277. 309. 

 Melting honey in cappings — 72. 

 Mexican honey shipments — 136. 

 Mice in hives — 85. 

 Migratory bee-keeping — loi, 177. 

 Miller frame — 148. 

 Mixing pollen — bees — 41. 

 Modern honey-production — 304. 

 Moldy combs in hives — 21. 

 Money from bees — 201. 

 Morning glory — 277. 

 Moth-worms in hives and comb honey — 



310. 362. 

 Moving bees long and short distances — 26, 



46. 53, 80, 86, 102, 130, 136, 147, 207, 



243. 247, 263, 341. 

 Mustard — 20. 



Names and terms in bee-keeping — 37, 53. 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association — 16, 



211. 357- 

 Natural swarming or dividing — 20. 

 Nature's order in the hive — 326. 

 Next honey-flow — 138. 

 Non-sitters and non-swarmers — 197, 263, 



336- 

 Non-sitting hen — 78. 

 Nosema apis — 295, 327. 

 Not exactly bees — 77. 

 Nuclei — 212. 



Nuclei — shallow frames for — 239. 

 Number of cells to square inch — 296. 

 October apiary work — 301. 

 Oilcloth over frames in cellar — 20. 

 Old brood-combs — 80, 83. 

 Old combs — space between — 270. 

 Oldest bee-keeper's report — 54- 

 Old queens — 278. 

 Orchard and bees — 328. 

 Over $2000 from 100 colonies — 83. 

 Painting hives — 53. 

 Paper packing for winter-cases — 52. 

 Parcels post — 268. 

 Pasturage for bees — 84. 

 Perforated honey-pail feeder — 10. 

 Pickled brood — 243. 

 Plain and bee-way sections — 117. 

 Pleasures of the bee-business — 76. 

 Poisoning ants — 168. 

 Poison-spray problem — 134. 

 Pollen in the hive — gefting — 20. 

 Pollen substitutes — 84, 231. 

 Propolis — bees' use of— 23. 

 Pound (one) of bees and 100 of honey — 



24- 



Praise of honey-bee — 338. 

 Preparing early in bee-keeping — 364. 

 Prevention of swarming — 52, 85, 134, 147, 



149. 

 Prices for honey — 75. 77. I35. 33i- 

 Producing section honey — 212. 

 Profitableness of bee-keeping — 6. 

 Prolificness of queens — 269. 

 Pure food laws and bee-keepers — 113. 

 Purity of stock in bees — working for — 



337- 

 Putting on supers — 84, 114, 207. 



Queen-bees — old — 245. 

 Queen-cage candy — 149. 

 Queen-catcher — 298. 

 Queen-cells — destroying — 245. 

 Queen experience — 181. 

 Queen-fertilization — control of — 1 1 7. 

 "Queenie ; autobiography of Italian 



Queen " — 265. 

 Queenles colony in winter — 84. 

 Queenless colony in winter — 84. 

 Queenlessness in March — 84. 

 Queen-mating stations — 262, 268. 

 Queen-rearing — 75, 172, 206, 337. 

 Queens and their work — 295. 

 Queens and workers destroy queen-cells — ■ 



20. 

 Queens beginning laying — 20. 

 Queens drone progeny — is it affected by 



her mating? — 24. 

 Queens not going with swarms — 295. 

 Queen-stings — 84. 



Races of bees — 38, 79. 



Rainfall and honey crop — 86. 



Raw-tasting honey — 244. 



Reading bee-papers — 359. 



Rearing and mating queens — 20, 206, 235. 



Rearing or buying queens — 341. 



Rearing queens for requeening — 20, 340. 



Rearing queens from best colonies — 23. 



Rearing queens in cool weather — 54. 



Reciprocity and Canadian honey — 69, 169, 



229. 267. 

 Removing bees from a window — 304. 

 Requeening — 172, 243, 301, 343. 

 Requeening hybrid bees — 85. 

 Requeening (self) in same hive — 52. 

 Rewards of bee-keeping — 38. 

 Robber-bees and robbing — 172, 261, 262, 



267. 296, 308. 

 Roof apiary in Rome — 307. 

 Roofing paper for hives — 102. 

 Saccharin in food prohibited — 265. 

 Salted water for bees — 165. 

 Sandpapering sections — ii. 

 School-children and bee-talks — 103. 

 Scotch bee-hives — 144. 

 Season's work in the apiaries — 12, 44. 

 Second blooming of honey-plants — 279. 

 Sectional hive — 270. 

 Section honey — watery-looking capping of 



—239- 

 Seedsmen and bee-supplies — 298. 

 Selling bulk comb honey — 12. 

 Selliiig honey — 47, 358. 

 Shading hives with grapevines — 52. 

 Shallow extracting frames — 116, 199. 

 Shipping bees — 230. 

 Shipping bees South for winter — 102. 

 Shipping comb honey — 174. 

 Shipping-cases — 75, iii, 293. 

 Shipping comb honey — 174. 

 Shipping honey— 45, 75. 

 Singeing cross bees — 296. 

 Sisters do bee-work — 299. 

 Size of colony in winter — 293. 

 Size of hive — 14. 

 Skunks in the apiary — 22. 

 Smartweed — 20. 

 Smoker-fuel — 372. 



Smoking bees at hive-entrance — 134. 

 Smoking bees excessively- — 205, 214. 

 Snow over bees in winter — 49. 

 Southern bee-keeping vs. northern — 178. 

 Southern honey price-list — 203. 

 Space between old combs — 165. 

 Space — economy or waste of — 103. 

 Spacing frames — 52. 

 Splinting combs — 53. 

 Split bottom bars — 295. 

 Spraying fruit — 19. 



Spreading hives in center of apiary — 168. 

 Spring management of bees — 117. 

 Spring protection of bees — 232. 

 Starters or full sheets of foundation — 172. 

 Starting in the bee-business — 371. 

 Starving bees in winter — 293. 

 Status of apiculture — 112, 305. 

 Stimulating queen in spring — 333. 

 Stimulative feeding in spring — 48, 49, 340. 

 Stingless bees — 165, 244, 278. 

 Stings — sensitiveness to — 263. 

 Sugar honey in Colorado — 366. 

 Sugar as substitute for winter shortage — 



333- 

 Sugar (best) for man, and its cost — 42. 

 Sugar candy for winter stores — 299, 371. 

 Sugar (denatured) for bees — 71. 

 Sugar for bees — 327. 

 Sugar — world-production of — 135. 

 Sumac — 85. 



Summer and bees — 330. 

 Super entrances— 52. 

 Supersedure cells — 371. 

 Supers for comb honey — log. 

 Swarming — 52, 85, 102, 114, 116, 134, 171, 



172, 180, 209, 244, 264, 278, 280, 341. 



362. 

 Sweet clover — 8, 275, 280, 359. 

 Sweet fraternity — i. 

 Systems for bees, poultry, etc. — 177. 

 Taking off honey — 266, 278. 

 Tariff on honey — 108. 

 Tarred felt for winter protection 102. 



1 artared teeth — 201. 



Temperature of bees in winter — 43, no, 



139- 

 Thyme — 310. 



Tobacco honey in Connecticut — 168. 

 Too regular apiary — 168. 

 Transferring bees — 115, 118, 147, 211, 243. 

 Transferring larvae — 234. 

 Two laying queens in a hive — 85. 

 Uncapping machines — 359. 

 Uncertainties of honey-flows — 13. 

 Unfinished sections — 279. 

 Uniformity of hives and fixtures — 109, 



HI. 



Uniting colonies — 77, 151, 341. 



Use of honey — 22. 



Uses of vegetables, fruits and honey — 41. 



Using hives where bees died — 149. 



Vacation among bee-keepers — 301. 



Value of bee-papers — 54. 



Value of bees in Michigan — 298. 



Ventilating hives — 277, 311. 



Virgin queen deportment — 326. 



Vitality — are bees losing? — 168. 



Vitality of honey-bees — 18. 



Watering-troughs and bees — 276. 



\V'ax-moth and comb-honey — 180. 



Wax-moths — killing with hydrocyanic acid 

 — 246. 



Weak colonies — 23, 53. 115, 361. 



What we know about bees — 41. 



Whey for bees — -135. 



Wide frames — 143. 



Wild liquorice — 279. 



WTId mustard or charlock — 43. 



Wintering bees — 20, 43, 49, 53, 81, 108, 

 no, 335. 340, 341. 369. 



Wintering bees in the cellar — 20, 369. 



Winter packing and heat transferrence — 

 149- 



Winter stores for bees — in, 116, 275, 276. 



Winter temperature of bees — 43. 



Wire-cloth roll as strainer — 264. 



Wiring frames — 102. 



Wiring shallow frames — 21. 



Women in the National Association — 41.' 



Women should know bees — 10, 12. 



Words or language — apiarian and other- 

 wise — 86. 134. 



Worker-eggs in drone-cells — 264. 



Workers reared in drone-comb — 38. 



Work-shop and honey-house — 140. 



Yellow bees — dissatisfied with — 334. 



Yellow jackets and bees — 300, 340, 372. 



Yellow sweet clover — 83, 117. 277. 



Young "Canuck" in an out-apiary — 235. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



.'\PIARY OF 



.^dams, Ulysses — 182. 

 Bamberger, John H. — 33. 

 Brubaker, Wm. H. — 225. 

 Coburn, John P. — 65. 

 Diemer, J. F. — 289. 

 Garrihan, W. F. — 225. 

 Jackson, F. A. — 289. 

 Keefer, W. P.— 289. 

 Xonogaki, Japan — 129. 

 Parson, A. S. — 39. 

 Pashek, John. — 289. 

 Pressler, Ellis E. — 225. 

 Simmons, H. N. — 39. 

 Smith, Ezra — 225. 

 Stone, Jas. A. — 297. 

 Yates, A. W. — 225. 



Aspinwall hive — 167. 



Austrian bee-medal — 103. 



Bamberger, J. H., clipping queen— 33. 



Barbrical apiary of Mr. Hooper — 273. 



Byer (J. L.) and family — 10. 



Byer (J. L.) in one of his bee-yards — 9. 



Comb-box — 80. 



Comb foundation experiments — 147, 175, 



176. 177- 

 Connecticut field-day — 225. 

 Crating hives and supers for shipping — 



178. -^-—-^ 



Falconer, W. T. — 104. 

 Falconer (W. T.) factory — 105. 

 Foster. Wesley — 79. 



