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used on percolating plan 646; Missouri, Ozark 

 mountain region in 633; Moisture condensing 

 on front hive-wall 633; Mold caused by non- 

 porous pine 308; Mold on hives in a cellar 

 60; Montana, good showing in 634; Moths, 

 bad on neglected combs 660; Moths destroy 

 entire colonies 47; Moths do not mulest strong 

 black colonies 565; Moths, to protect empty 

 combs from 480; Moth-worms, CLimbs infested 

 with 533; Motor cycles for bee-keepers, 187, 

 188, 454, 564; Moving bees and preventing 

 drifting 196; Moving bees before placing in 

 cellar 702; Moving bees, difficulties of 100; 

 Moving bees in box car 702, 726; Moving bees 

 in the mountains of California 405; Moving 

 bees on sleds 226; Moving bees with traction 

 engine 75; Moving in mid-winter 92, 127. 



National Association note 182, 298, 459; Na- 

 tional association, Pres. York's ideals for 698; 

 National Association should it advertise 

 honey? 732; National Bee-keepers' Convention 

 great success 716; National brand of honey 

 suggested 767; National Convention, holding 

 in one place 121; National Convention notice 

 580; National Convention report 697; Natural 

 selection, how it perpetuates certain habits 

 of bees 787; Nebraska State fair 27; Nectar, 

 amount of bees can carry 780; Nectar, amount 

 of water 308; Nectar, how bees get it from 

 flowers 214; Nectaries of flowers, do bees per- 

 forate? 291; Nectar not owned by land-owner 

 172, 244; Nectar secretion, effect of atmos- 

 phere on 479; Needle for wiring frames 232; 

 New England Fair, Gates on 653; New Jer- 

 sey bee-keepers' meeting 560; New Jersey, 

 proposed foul-brood bill for 44; New Mexico 

 adapted for bees 128; Newspapers folded in- 

 stead of chaff tray 29; New Zealand, foul- 

 brood legislation in 618; New Zealand, willows 

 for bee forage in 497; Nomination for National 

 officers 698; Non-swarming, see swarming, 

 elimination of; Norfolk association 137; 

 Nose ma apie 248; Nuclei, is it advisable to 

 form in August? 596; Nuclei, twin v. single 

 389; Nuclei vs. nursery cages 496, 544; Nuclei, 

 what time of day to furm 466; Numbers, 

 should they be painted on the hive? 737; Nur- 

 sery cages vs. nuclei 496, 544. 



Odor as a factor in introducing 511; Orange- 

 blossom region of California 449; Orange 

 honey bursts cans when unripe 405; Orange 

 honey fine 405; Orange honey, variation in 

 color 86; Orange-tree of California 464; Or- 

 chards, should bees be scattered in 511; Or- 

 ganization needed to boost prices 373; Out- 

 apiaries, do they pay? 175: Out-apiary in 

 France 338; Oven for liquefying honey 17; 

 Overstocking, Hershiser on 263, 284; Over- 

 stocking, no danger of in California 718; Ozark 

 Mountains, buckwheat honey in 378; Ozark 

 Mountains of Missouri, conditions in 633. 



Packages for bulk comb honey 441; Pack- 

 age for retailing honey 695; Packing heather 

 hives 618; Packing hives in leaves 661; Pack- 

 ing material vs. dead air space 769; 

 Paint, Dr. Miller's hives last 25 years 

 without 68; Painting hives 513; Painting 

 hives, Bonney on 586; Painting hives with 

 practical man 43; Paint, what kind to use on 

 bee-hives, Scholl on 647; Paint, zinc needed in 

 to make mixture durable 754; Pairs, advant- 

 age of arranging hives in 68; Paper bottles, 

 where manufactured 245; Paper cases for out- 

 door wintering at Medina 81; Paper milk-bot- 

 tles, new for 18; Paper on home-made gable 

 cover 669; Paper shipping-cases 174; Paper 

 shipping-cases v. double-tier 138; Paralysis, 

 disease resembling 516; Paralysis, little known 

 about 544; Paralysis, seventy colonies diseased 

 with 668; Parcels post, Foster on 282; Parent 

 colony lazy 271; Parker foundation fastener 

 for shallow frames 626; Partridge pea as a 

 honey-plant 359; Patent-right territory 308; 

 Peas field, do thev yield honey? 235; Peas, 

 little honey from 766; Peas yield honey, but 

 not from blossoms 340: Percolating syrup- 

 feeders 540, 550, 614; Piping by young queens 

 only 532; Piping from two or three queens at 

 once 544, 549; Piping heard only before second 

 swarm issues 533; Piping of a virgin queen 

 witnessed 297: Piping of queen when bees 

 were taken awav 563; Piping sound, how the 

 queen makes it 408, 691, 748; Plnin pecti".ns. 



Tricky on 173; Poisoned water set out pur- 

 posely to kill bees 613; Poison from stings in 

 bee-tree honey 70; Poisoning from propolis 668, 

 771; Poisonous combs 21; Pollen and honey, 

 are both carried on same trip? 769; Pollen, 

 artificial, fed inside of hive 164; Pollen, fed 

 without excitement 268; Pollen, artificial, Holt- 

 ermann on 210; Pollen, artificial, Todd on 122; 

 Pollen carrying, is it sign that queen is pres- 

 ent? 769; Pollen, collection of by orchardist 

 217; Pollen development not stimulated by 

 bees 9; Pollen, development of 9; Pollen fed 

 inside of the hive in Scotland 271; Pollen from 

 frosted flowers, effect of 392; Pollen in queen- 

 cell sign of queenlessness 646; Pollen in sec- 

 tions, to remove 45; Pollen, is it ever found in 

 normal queen-cell? 781; Pollen, no excluders 

 needed to keep it out of sections 371; Pollen 

 not needed by bees 136; Pollen of apple-blos- 

 soms 215; Pollen stored in supers 309; Pollen 

 substitutes 122, 164. 286, 210, 801; Pollen sub- 

 stitutes fed at Dr. Miller's 208; Pollen, substi- 

 tutes for, Simmins on 178; Porch, wintering 

 colony on 589; Poultry-fence, to make tight 

 100; Poultry-house for Florida 456; Power ex- 

 tractor, ideal arrangement for 380; Press com- 

 mittee in California 613; Price of honey com- 

 pared with that of syrup 282; Price of honey, 

 on what should it be based? 552, 663; Price of 

 honey, what controls it? 104; Prices good if 

 honey is sold early 28; Price in Ontario 548; 

 Prices of comb and extracted honey compared 

 578; P*rices of comb honey good in Colorado 

 682; Prices of honey, have they advanced? 580; 

 Prices of necessaries of life 136: Profits from 

 bee-keeping 698; Progressive advertising, E. 

 G. Hand on 784; Prolificness in queens 616; 

 F*rophesying the season 443; Propolis poison- 

 ing 668, 771; Propolis wanted for varnish 772: 

 Provincial government news 137; Pure-food 

 law, effect on honey-dew 598; Pure-food law, 

 labeling honey to conform to 770. 



Quarantining bees in England 5; Queen, 

 caged three months still living 738; Queen, 

 caged to keep swarm in hive 382; Queen-cell, 

 does a colony work well with? 769; Queen-cell 

 made of wood 729; Queen -cells, are they de- 

 stroyed by the queen? 479; Queen-cells con- 

 tained the only eggs in hive 636; Queen-cells, 

 how to keep warm. Pritchard on 661; Queen- 

 cells, preconstructed, prepared for prime 

 swarm 4; Queen-cells, sending by mail 485; 

 Queen-cells started before death of queen 68; 

 Queen-cells, two eggs in sign of laying work- 

 ers 440; Queen-cells, virgins tear holes in 578, 

 662; Queen-cell work in Medina 453; Queen 

 does not pass through a body where combs 

 are spaced 2 inches 68; Queen-excluders, are 

 they honey-excluding? 163; Queen-excluders 

 indispensable 766: Queen-excluders made of 

 wire in England 267; Queen-e:<cluders wanted 

 by Holtermann 137; Queen-excluders with 

 bee-spaces running crosswise 428; Queen, find- 

 ing bv pitch of bees' notes 70; Queen found 

 under' bottom-board 623; Queen, how soon may 

 cell be given after removal of? 769; Queen 

 how to tell for sure when one is in hive 772 

 Queen in diseased colony deteriorates 371 

 Queen introduction, see Introducing; Queen 

 laving in queen-cells 653; Queenless bees de- 

 stroving eggs and larvae 374; Queenlessness 

 determined bv hum of bees 29; Queenlessness 

 indicated by pollen in queen-cell 646; Queen 

 piped when bees were taken away 563; Queen- 

 rearing apiary, Scholl's 512; Queen-rearing, 

 Bver on 88: Queen -rearing, Doolittle on 283; 

 Queen-rearing late in season 211; Queen-rear- 

 ing learned in short time 749; Queen-rearing 

 over strong colonies or in nuclei 271; Queen- 

 rearing vard, I^ouis Scholl's 246, 441; Queen- 

 rearing yards, short cuts in 183; Queens, age 

 at which they are destroyed 404; Queens, al- 

 lowing bees to supersede 484; Queens and 

 drones, fliglit of 481; Oueens, are they reared 

 only bv voung bee^? 328: Queens balled when 

 returning from flight 244: Queens, can they be 

 fertilized by drones from laving workers? 769; 

 Queens, colonv persisted in killing 564; Queens, 

 do they pipe with their wings? 408, 748; 

 Queens entering their second winter 614; 

 Queens from swarming-cells. do they cause 

 deterioration? 392: Queens from twice-grafted 

 cells 110; Queens, how the-'- make the piping 



