GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Wax from sugar cane 714; Wax needed when 

 bees gnaw combs 76; Wax-press preferred to 

 solar extractor 381; Wax production, is it 

 profitable? 270; Wax, vegetable 721; Wax- 

 weed furnishes honey in Colorado 615; Wax- 

 worms, food of not all nitrogenous 476; Weak 

 colonies exchanging places with strong colo- 

 nies 406; Weak colonies strengthened by 

 strong ones on top 378; Wedging sections in 

 supers 511; ^^'eed eradicator, sweet clover for 

 658; Weeds, to destroy hives 127: Weeping 

 honey 636; Weeping honey, Fooshe on 11; 

 Weeping honey, lime to prevent 60; Weeping 

 of honey when stored under ground 60; 

 Weight of colony reduced by cleansing flight 

 646; Weight of section honey 59; Wetting sec- 

 tions, no need of 360; White clover causes 

 bloating 200, 269; White clover, prospects good 

 in Vermont 102; White clover, prospects. 

 Weaver on 197; White clover, second crop in 

 one year 598, 612; Willow for bee forage in New 

 Zealand 497; Wind, effect of when setting bees 

 out 109; Wind affects direction of bees' flight 

 69; Wind blowing covers off 208; Wind, effect 

 of on bees' flight 100; Wind, protectijig hives 

 from 443: Winter, abundant ventilation needed 

 in 209; Winter, amount of stores needed for in 

 Illinois 714; Winter, how much honey to leave 

 fr>r 635; Wintering bv giving flights indoors 

 265; Wintering extra queens 702, 769; Winter- 

 ing in box hives inside shed 697; Wintering on 

 candy alone, is it possible? 771; Wintering on 

 solid combs of honey with two-inch space be- 

 neath 68; Wintering on sumnner stands 60; 

 Wintering outdoors in Wisconsin 701; Winter- 

 ing outdoors or in 73, 161; Wintering problem. 



Todd on 53; Wintering the strongest colonies 

 outdoors 161; Wintering with super of empty 

 sections over brood-nest 801; Wintering with 

 two-inch space between solid slabs of honey 

 68; Wintering losses prevented by raising 

 hive-body 44; Winter losses in Canada 210; 

 Winter nest, empty cells needed for 36; Win- 

 ter, preparing for early 514, 564, 670; Winter 

 quarters, Holtermann's bees in, Oct. 13 683; 

 Winter severe in Colorado 69; Winter ventila- 

 tion in Colorado 682; Wire cloth imbedded in 

 foundation 60; Wire, hay-bailing used for sup- 

 porting foundation 749; Wire heated by elec- 

 tricity for imbedding foundation 668; Wire, 

 heavy for supporting foundation 554; Wire, 

 upper, in brood-frames important 780; Wiring 

 extracting-frames 533; Wiring frames a nui- 

 sance 441; Wiring frames, only three wires 

 used 725; Wiring frames, various plans for 

 233; Wiring frames with needle 232; Wiring 

 vertical vs. horizontal 519; Wisconsin, winter- 

 ing outdoors in 701; Women as bee-keepers 

 613, 698; Worker comb, how thick? 646; Work- 

 ers reared in drone-cells 440. 



Yellow dust under brood -combs 164; Yellow 

 sweet clover 236; Yellow sweet clover blossoms 

 when only six inches high 802; Yellow sweet 

 clover in Kansas 360; Yellow sweet clover 

 sown in November 421; Yellow sweet clover, 

 when to sow 271; Yield, average over country 

 578; Young bees coming out and dying 427; 

 Young bees needed to insure queen introduc- 

 tion 631; Young bees, why sometimes driven 

 out of hive 562, 566. 



Zinc needed in paint for bee-hives 647, 754. 



EDITORIALS. 



ABC&XYZof Bee Culture, new edition 

 401; Absorbents vs. sealed covers 206, 207; 

 Adulerators being brought to time 170; Alex- 

 ander cure, was it wise to publish? 509; 

 Alexander foul-brood cure, old 778; Alexander 

 plan of curing European foul brood 1, 65, 541, 

 778; Alfalfa honey, to keep from granulating 

 134: American and European foul brood naiues 

 370, 507; American Apple Orchard by Waugh 

 242; Anatomy of the bee by Snodgrass 437: 

 Apiaries and line fences 206; Apiary, locating 

 205; Apis nosema 368; Automatic can-flllers 

 438, 575; Automobile for apiary work 97, 243. 



Baby nuclei for queen-rearing 279; Bacillus 

 larvae and bacillus alvei recognized by an 

 English authority 542; Back-lotter bee-keep- 

 ing 778; Banats 747; Bee books, new, in press 

 cf Gleanings 643; Bee company. 50.000-colony 

 402; Bee disease not a disease 368; Bee-house, 

 double-walled 98; Bee-keepers, legal rights 

 277; Bee-keeping for beginners 778; Bee-keep- 

 ing on a large scale 241; Bees and fruit 577, 

 643; Bees and neighbors 34; Bees as fertil- 

 izers of cranberry blossoms 643; Bees dis- 

 tinguishing colors 777; Bees in candy fac- 

 tories 644; Bees in clamps In clay soil 678; 

 Bees, Interstate shipments 1; Bees killed by 

 poison 335; Bees killed by spraying-liquids 

 278; Bees more hostile to black than white 

 711; Bees moved short distances without go- 

 ing back 645; Bees, semi-hibernators 35; Bee- 

 tent 367; Bee-trees contain foul brood 575; 

 Bloating among cattle 97; Books, new, in 

 press of gleanings 643; Brush automobile 243; 

 Bulk honey 33; Bureau of Entomology 2; 

 Bureau of Entomology bulletins 437; Buttel- 

 Reepen's book 66; Byer, J. L. our new Cana- 

 dian editor 778. 



California crop light 241: California, south- 

 ern, not a bee paradise 610; Candy factories 

 and bees 644; Candving of honey, see gran- 

 ulation; Candy with meal in it 98. 99. 134; 

 Carbolic acid in spraying mixtures 134; Cattle, 

 bloating of by clover 97: Cellar wintering, 

 points to be observed 779; Cells vs. just 

 hatched virgins 336; Characteristics of the 

 races 747; Clamps for wintering in clay soil 

 678; Cloth for supporting foundation 133: 

 Clover and its relation to heavy snows 97, 

 170; Clovers cause bloating in cattle 97; Clover 

 very promising 335; Clusters, contraction of 

 in winter 35; Coddling moth and its ravaa-es 

 /'43; Cold weather before the honev-flow 367; 

 College expenses paid by bees 134; Collier's 



Weekly and the comb-honey canard 745; 

 Color sense of the honey-bee 777; Comb-honey 

 canard in Collier's Weekly 745; Combs honey 

 canard refuted 367; Comb honey, candied, 

 what to do with 279; Comb honey candying, 

 how to prevent 278; Comb honey giving way 

 to extracted 542, 678; Comb honey, high price 

 of 678; Comb honey, how to ship 644, 777; 

 Comb honey unsalable, what to do with 677 ; 

 Combs, arrangement of for winter-nest 677; 

 Combs, not necessary to melt up on Euro- 

 pean foul brood 611; Coinbs, rendering into 

 wax 67; Convention, National 66; Corpora- 

 tion of 50.000 colonies 402; Corrugated paper 

 for shipping-cases 169, 745; Cranberries fertil- 

 ized by bees 643; Crop-reports 509, 510, 542; 

 Crop report, scheme for 402; Cushion, see ab- 

 sorbents; Cyprians 747. 



Disease, nomenclature of 370, 507; Diseased 

 brood to the Bureau of Entomology 473; Dis- 

 ease, Maiden's paper on 542; Disease, to pre- 

 vent in California 610; Doolittle on baby nuclei 

 279; Doolittle on bees and fruit 577; Dough- 

 nuts, honey 34; Drouth and honey-flow 242; 

 Dysentery instead of nosema apis 368. 



Editor of Gleanings foul-brood inspecting 

 508: Editor through Canada 609: Edwards, 

 D. M. death of 746: Entomologv, Bureau of 2, 

 437; Entrances, size of 207; Entrances, size 

 of for winter '711; Entrances closed by dead 

 bees 133; European foul brood, S. D. House 

 on 611; European foul brood, to cure 1, 65, 

 611; Excluders, wrong and right side up 34; 

 Extracted honey automaticallv cut off 438; 

 Extracted honey, clarifying 402: Extracted, 

 tendency toward rather than comb 543, 678; 

 Ex tracting-combs. wet. robbed out 541; Ex- 

 tracting honev. modern methods "jf 402. 473; 

 Extracting, Metcalfe's methods 777; Extract- 

 ing-room. keeping cool with fan 473; Ex- 

 tractor, honey 98; Extractors, light non-re- 

 versible 541. 



Fakes and fakirs 241; Fan to keep ex- 

 tracting-room cool 473; Feeders, percola- 

 tors 541; Feeding, injudicious 368; Feed- 

 ine late for winter 643; Feeding late or early 

 207: Ferguson uncapping-machine 576: Fer- 

 tilizers, bees as 643; Forest fires and hive 

 lumber 542; Foster, married 609: Four-brood. 

 Alexander cure for 1. 65. 541, 778; Foul-brood 

 bill. New .Tersev 305; Foul-brood bill, Ohio 

 135. 171; Foul-brood cures bv shaking or 

 brushing on foundation 543; Foul-brood, elim- 

 inating the old-fashioned bee-keepers 508; 



