INDEX TO VOLUME VIII. 



Apiary— 



Advantages of hilly or mountainous district, 18; pic- 

 ture ot uur a., 33; Harrington's house a., 79; how 

 to stock an a., 11.; a tasty a., 125; laying out an 

 apiary, 12s; starting an a. on $2 50. 222; bouse api- 

 aiies discarded, 358; thieves in the a., 359, 450, 4*5; 

 work in the a. in August, 369; Allen's lawn-hive a., 

 373; Junes' a., 389; Martin's a., 425; are large a. a 

 nuisance? 426; Uailup's a., 427; Buchanan's, 438; a 

 visit to Simpson's, 4t>8; the Banner a., 514. 

 Absconding S warms- 

 New swarms abs., 278, 339, 390; l>e's remarks, 381; 

 not prevented by frs. of brood, 429, 486 ; mania for. 

 493. 

 A I wine Clover- 

 How to harvest, 71; foreign seeds in, 111; does not 

 run out, 117; A. In New Hampshire, 129; does it 

 pay? 174; not injured by frost, 2U3. 

 Alighting-Boards— 

 How Smith makes, 324; made of slate, 387. 

 Bees- 

 Advertising b. don't pay, 34; blessed b.. 36; b. and 

 cane-mills, 57; b. drinking at hives, 58; balling 

 queens, 59; two swarms separating, 66; letting bees 

 starve, 66; dead b. in front of hives, 71; frequent 

 handling, 73, 166; dob. rob because of lack of stores? 

 76; shipping b. in winter, 76; robbing the neigh- 

 bors' b., 76; strong stocks to get honey, 76; b. by 

 the lb., 78; how to manage when robbing, 106; 

 building up weak colonies, ill; suspended anima- 

 tion of b., 114; moving bees often, 118; raising b., 

 and letting them run off. 119; teaching b. to gather 

 honey, 120; taking b. from a tree in January. 120; 

 does eonliuement cause dysentery? 121; dark v. 

 light Italians, 124; handling bees in winter, 126; 

 why did they die? 128; blacks and hybrids, who 

 Wants them? 129; when and how to take b. out of 

 cellar, 129; handling b. with rubber gloves, 130; 

 how much do they pay? 130; managing by electrici- 

 ty, 131; handsome b., 162; cross b.. 165,. 385; do 

 healthy b. void their laeces? 165; water for. 8; b. 

 and grapes, 12, 58, 63. 217; a big bumble-bee. 15, 233; 

 will requeenin^ in the fall prevent dwindling? 16; 

 Italians v. blacks as n bbers, 23, 76, 173, 529; advan- 

 tage of being near, 24; what to do with a barrel of , 

 26; brimstouing, 26; houses, 26; slighting bushes 

 and trees lor. 26; an October swarm. 27; keeping 

 without trouble, 28; will lt»lians predominate? 28; 

 three to sixty in three years. 29; a small swarm 

 from a heavy large one, 30; setting b. near a road, 

 31; getting b. thatvtre to be brimstoned, 31, 71. 391, 

 595; letting b. starve, 32; will loss of Sling kill b.? 

 32; unbed stocks quarreling, 32; poisoning b, 34, 

 530; Muth's ideas ot keeping b ,587; do bees pay on 

 an average? 569; It. b. and chuff hives, 589; a bar- 

 rel of b.. 590; drumming b. out, 590; is much bro. d 

 profitable? 590; yellow b. from dark queens, 693; 

 have b. eats? 596; b. do not open grapes, 596; dying 

 suddenly. 598; cmi b. convert worker eggs to 

 drones? 598; b. in Utah, 576; Chinese b.,58a; two 

 colonies in cine chaff hive, 577; abuut from l toil 

 in 2 seasons. 549, 569; in-and-in breeding. 573; when 

 To begin raising, 57s; cauti u in adding new b, 5)9; 

 fixing early for winter, 5*2; queenless stocks that 

 won't start cells, 170: on snares, 171, 599: when do 

 b. eat most? 171: b. to look at, or for honey, 173, 

 519: how many swarms for one apiary? 175: where 

 did they come from? 220: albinos, 2:'": killing rob- 

 bers on Sunday, 222: cutting a I), tree, 223: loca- 

 ting bees near barnyard, 224: hiring buys to tend 

 b., 224: length of b. tongues, 226.524: britnstoning 

 b , 225: huiitimr b., 225: billing their own queen. 

 228; don't starve, 230: cultivation of in N. England. 

 231: uncertain property, 232: quills to brush b.. 

 232,233: selling D. and queens, '-'<>. : water for, 267. 

 277: ray first attempt with, 269; how b. remove 

 water from honey, 270: handling vs. disturbing b., 

 275; culture of b. in olden times, 275: dying in a 

 cellar, 278: do b get lazy in the tropics? 279: smo- 

 king b. with mullein, 230: smoke making b. angry, 



282: how do they improve time? 283: tinkering b. 

 to death, 284: where did 0. come from? 2t5: active 

 b., 286: b. voiding water on the wing. 307: in gar- 

 rets, 311: when did the b. come to America? 311, 

 599; by the lb., 315, 36s; finest swarm in Texas, 318; 

 can b. strain water from new honey? 318: small 

 eaters, 324: educating people in b. culture, 325: en- 

 larging race by crossing 327: giving new swarms 

 the whole hive, 327: how bees lived in the ark, 330: 

 do bees sleep? 335: b th it won't rear queens, 336: 

 b. ihat know nothing. 337: notional b., 3.7: new 

 swarm returning to old hive, 338: stai viug in June, 

 339, b. dying without queens, 340: unsealed brood 

 for new swarm, 359; how to get b. into cages, 368: 

 brushes to remove b., 376: swarms leaving atter 

 being hived, 378: pursuing b. uuder difficulties, 

 379: swarming and attacking their queen, 379; b. 

 that won't stait queen-cells, 380, 544: non-swarm- 

 ing, 380: hybrids vs. Italians tor houey, 381: b. and 

 fruit, 382, 390. 536, 540, 59.1: difference in working 

 qualities, 384: importance of unsealed brood in a 

 hive, 386; do bl tcks w r . rk on red clover? 388: wild 

 b. in Texas, 389: by the lb. by express, 390: blacks 

 eailiest in morning, 413; Cypriau and Holy-Land, 

 413: b. in Arkansas, 421: the deadly and too-busy 

 b., 426; A B (J test of Italians, 431: b. that won't 

 woik, 434: queenless stocks crosser than others, 

 4:>5: what to do with lib. of, after May 24th, 438; 

 what to do with cress b., 440: to make b. of sugar, 

 440: b. that won't Work in upper stories, 441: Kill- 

 ing b. for their honey, 442: four-bauded Italians, 

 442: hunting b. with compass. 442: lizy b., 444: ap- 

 pearing dead wheu chilled, 464; hunting b. iu Tex- 

 as, 468; the Arkansas b., 471; disturbing b. in win- 

 ter. 478; blacks storing all the honey above, 478; 

 Italians on red clover, 484; too much brood in a 

 hive, 486; working colony with no hive, 487; making 

 b. accept queen, 487; do b. steal eggs? 489; 22 days 

 in the cell, 494; b. and confectioneries. 494; rela- 

 tive merit of Italians and blacks. 527, 533, 600, lon- 

 gevity of b., 534; how to rent, 534; why do b. pick 

 and pull others? 537; starting nuclei, 537; tour- 



• banded. 539, b. and grape juice, 5.9; why did they 

 swarm so much? 539; b. iu the ear. 543; b. that 

 need feeding iu Nov., 545, 556; keeping n. tor tun, 

 546; intemperance among b., 547; b. in Tennessee, 

 548; J oung b. placing, 549, difference between (Jyp. 

 and Holy-Lanu, 556; covering b. for winter, 556; are 

 there black b. in Italy? 557, 581; when the b. first 

 came to America. 585; HUilicd view of b., 586. 

 diswask.n oif — 



Dysentery in the fall, 24; dwindling, 22, 59,284; first 

 report of bee malady, 80; is spring dwindling a 

 disease? 124; is dysentery a disease? 211; dysentery 

 or confinement the cause of tiouble, 259, ;,33; anew 

 disease. 444; a disease in warm weather, 586. 



Bee Feed- 

 Juice of sugar-cane for f., 30; brown sugar for win- 

 ter f, 31; Si rgbum safe as a b. f, 105: maple sugar 

 as a substitute for candy, 121; Hour in liquid food, 

 167; to keep liquids from souring, 167; coin, 167; 

 pea Hour, 169; molasses, 176: Hour candy iu winter, 

 227; brown sugar, 239; sorguuui bad for honey, 230; 

 eggs. 233; liquid food in October, 535; maple syrup, 

 59u; how to feed honey outdoors, 599; oats for bees, 



131. 



Buekvtlieat— 



B. iu northern localities 78; sometimes a failurci 

 125,203; silverhull, 203. 



Detwiler's, 132; l»eet's,132,494, 538. 577,660; Hnrris',154: 

 Heine's, 168; mailing queeu-e , 106, 169; all of 

 wood 176; a hint iu regard to, 271; combined ship, 

 and Intro, c, 449. 



Candy— 



Grape-sugar c. made with honey, 74; why does c 

 drcp? 74; c. for bees, 127; Ban's report on grape 

 sugar c, 108; putting c. into frames, 230: how 

 to make, 231; brick C, 276; making grape-sugar c, 

 276: mixed with maple sugar, 278; lazy man's bee 

 e., 288; pollen ft, 382; c. lor cages that require no 



