506 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Dec. 



Bees Raising them in Drone Comb to make 



them Lnrger 229 



" Salting 101, 145 



" Selling for $ 1.00 per Pound 208, 227 



" Stimulating to Promote Early Breeding 131 



" S 'perstition About 144 



" Taxes on 274 



" That Did not Swarm, and What to Do 



With Them 371 



" " Hang out and Won't Swarm, 



What to do with them 317 



" " Repented 190 



" " Won't Work or Swarm 362 



" Work on Red Clover 453 



" "Versus Doctors and Medicine 80 



" What Ails Them and How to Cure 'Em. . . .362 



" What is the Matter with Them? 40? 



" What Made Them Die? 27 



" What Killed 'em? 182 



" What to Do with Them this Month (Sept.). .372 



" When to Buy and v\ hat to Pay 403 



" Will They Swarm whether Crowded or Not?188 



" Why Did They Swarm 363 



" Why Don't They Swarm, and where Did 



They Go? 447 



" Why They Don't Work 360 



Bee Settler 168 



Bee Trees, Queer 000 



" " Cutting 102,442,481 



" " Sprinkling Sulphur on Bees to Find. .232 



Bee Veils, Wire Cloth for 491 



Beginners, A Caution to 21 



" How One Succeeded, Simplicity 



Hives, Sections, etc 26 



Blasted Hopes '. .6, 88, 147, 180, 256, 319, 416, 472 



Box Hive Department 208, 3i8, 478 



Box Hives, Getting Surplus in 63 



Boy Power versus Foot Power 188 



Boys' Department 148, 172, 269, 298, 369, 433, 504 



Brood, Can We Have too Much? 446 



'• Drone, in Worker Comb 406 



" " by Mail 445 



" Frames Kept Apart 25 



" Rearing in Winter in Chaff Hives 84 



California 122, 232, .271 



" as a Bee-Keeping State. . . .342, 382, 440, 484 



" Comb Honey in 441 



Canada, An Extensive Bee Farm in 454 



" Postal Regulations of 403 



" Reports from 434, 450, 454 



Candy for Bees, 5 c. per lb., How to Make it. .385, 432 



" Flour, for Bees 144 



" How to Feed in Winter 487 



Candving, Scalding to Prevent 450 



Chaff, Buckwheat 452 



" Cotton Seed in Place of 100 



" Cushions for Winter 381, 495 



" " Queries About 496 



" When to Take off 126 



" Flax 451 



" For Wintering 226, 227 



" Packing for Winter *..86, 188, 498 



. " " or Cellar Wintering 452 



" Queries About 496 



" Rice 126 



" Right on the Bees 316 



" versus Corn Husks 186 



" versus Sawdust 142, 205 



" When to Pack Bees in 452 



Charity 363 



for Those Who Err 165 



Colonies, A Large One, and What Came of it 169 



" Buying 22 to Start with 473 



" (hanging Location of 181 



Difference in. as Honey Gatherers 431 



" Feeding Through on Sugar Syrup to 



Keep from B t imstone 275, 341 



" Having Little or No Comb, What to 



Do with Them 451 



" Moving the Old, when a Swarm has 



Issued 273 



" Seven from One, and 100 lb. of Hon- 

 ey in one Season 497 



" Strengthening theWeHk by Exchang- 

 ing Stands 276 



" Sure Way of Increasing the Number, 



even in Winter 403 



" Tinkering with Late in the Fall 181 



" Two in One Hive 103 



" What One Did in 7 Yeans 145 



Comb Basket for Extracting Broken Pieces 316 



Comb Building between Upper and Lower Frames. 24 

 " Di Beps ever Add a Fibrous 

 Material to Give Additional 

 Strength? 401 



Comb Foundation Breaking Down 102 



" " Cement for Fastening in 453 



" " Electrotypes for Dipping 325 



" " Fastening in the Frame 167, 494 



" " Flat Bottomed 179,234 



" '• for Honey for Table Use 27 



" " for Italians, after First 



Swarm is Out 315 



" " for a New Swarm 184 



" " Four and a Half Cells to the 



Inch 127 



" " from Mrs. Dunham's Machine.. 105 



" " Homemade 348 



" " How Many Wires are Needed in. 315 



" " How to Fasten in a Frame.. 313, 360 



" " How to Prevent from Sagging.. 79 



" " in Every Other Frame Ife4, 494 



" " Made with Thin Pine Board 



as a Base 317 



" " Making at One Operation. .187, 348 



" " " by Dipping only 283 



" " " right in Wired Frames. 187 



" " " Ihicker to Prevent 



Sagging 185 



Newly Made 357 



" " New Swarms on 206 



" " on Paper 434 



" " on Tin Foil 138 



" " Practical Test of the Value 



Thereof 28 



" * " Tinned Wire in, not a Hin- 

 drance to Brood Rearing 185 



" " That will not Sag 483 



" " What shall We Put with 



Wax to Toughen 485 



" " Wired, for the Prevention 



of Sagging.. 64, 101, 138, 185 



233, 276, 492 



" " Wiring Frames for 273 



with Square Cells 227,239,273 



Machines, Cheap. .. .83, 186, i39, 858 

 for Thick Side Walls. 364 



" " " Home made 47 



" " Starters, Cup for Melting 

 Wax for Fastening, Im- 

 provement in 231 



" " Starters, Falling Down 275 



" " for Comb Honey 138 



" " " Getting them built 



Out in Brood Ap't. .319 

 " " " Made and Fasten- 



ed in Sections at 



One Operation 348 



44 tfc * i Wire Inserter . . .233 



Comb. Gettinsr Natural, for Starters 59, 87 



Comb-Holder, Clark's 317 



" " Simplicity, and How to Make it. . 6 



Combs, Another Destroyer of 391 



" Brood, Composition of 316 



" " Fibrous Material in 446 



" " Tinned Wire for ...406 



" Built Crosswise, and What to Do 227 



" Getting Lower, out of Chaff Hive 360 



" How to Secure Straight 360 



" Importance of Skill and Care in Handling.232 



" Natural, Breaking Down 272 



" Preserving 28 



'• Space Required for 184 



" Using from Colonies that have Died of 



Dysentery 147 



" very Thick, for the Extractor 170, 347 



Corners for Simp. Hives, Our New Beveled 139 



Covering" Hives with Glass 452 



Covers, Board, for Shade 127 



" that can not Leak, how to Make 490 



Division Boards, Chaff, Queries About 496 



" " fortheQueen 80,225 



" " Baker's 500 



Doolittle's Report for 1879 386 



Dovetailing Machine 165 



Drone Rearing, making Colonies small, Not a 



Preventive of, in the South 185 



Drones, Age of 185, 452, 483 



" all Winter 452 



Color and Markings of 184, 498 



" Early Italians 452 



" How to Keep Blacks out of the Way 85 



inQneenCells 26 



" in Worker " 405,4*2,498 



Lpnjrth of Life of 26, 299 



" Making Bees Rear, out of Season 445 



" Over-Produetion of 317 



" Pure, from Hybrid Queens 450 



" Sendine Off for 426 



" What Beoomes of All of Them ? 481 



