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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



water, 427: c. and its effect on bees, 435; Viallon's 

 c., 550; flour c, 558; when to put in a frame of c, 

 589; maple-sugar c, 208, 233. 



Cliaff- 



For packing, 11, 66, 284; leaves v. chuff, 77; c. pack- 

 ing for mild winters, 79; advantages of keeping it 

 on late, 112; c. for keeping bees below mats, 159: 

 corn-silk vs. c, 172; c. as packing, 284; strong 

 stocks v. c. cushions, 334; cotton-hulls v. c, 4136. 

 C'lieirogranh- 



10, 82, 128, 132, 168, 234, 236, 2S4, 432, 4:34. 

 Comb- 

 er building in spring, 72: fastening c. to separators, 

 75: fastening c. for trans., 130: what to do with 

 empty, 229: furnishing built-out c, 275: utility of 

 empty c, 320: full of dead bees, 338: broken-down, 

 368: drone c. for ex., 537: building c. on the way, 

 59] : thick c. in trans., 596. 



Departments- 

 Humbugs and Swindles, 20, 81, 155,212, 260,317,400, 

 452, 471,521, 570; Smilerv, 14, 64, 104; 161, 200, 265,313, 

 475; Growlery, 21, 56, 103, 156, 210, 202, 345, 365, 449, 

 469,533,575; Ladies' Department, 21, 112, 156,211, 

 258,531,578; Heads of Grain, each No.; Notes and 

 Queries, each No.; Blasted Hopes, 36,81, 210,258, 

 313,370,419,467,550.570; Box-Hive department, 30, 

 181; Obituarv, 36, 161. 288,370; Boys' Department, 

 157, 212,323, 418. 470, 520, 576: Our Own Apiary, 159; 

 Bee Botany, 259, 371, 423, 478, 520; Kind Words. 305, 

 461; Reports Encouraging, 518, 508; Bee Entomolo- 

 gy, 528; Cartoons, 154,243, 451, 558, 572. 



Dividing— 



A grand mistake in, 180: a boy's trials in d.. 418. 



Drones— 



Inworkercomb.il; age of d., 34, 131; d. in January, 

 123,128; in February, 170; early, 173; how to kill, 

 285,439,488; d. wanted, 336; purity of d., 338; Dzier- 

 zon theory, 375: to get d. in fall, 451; d. meeting 

 queen, 476; color of, 493. 



Early-Amber Sugar-Cane— 



As a bee feed, 57: how to sow seed of, 79: mills for, 

 104: yield per acre, 105: E. A. in Canada, 105: the 

 Minnesota, 153; seed of, 182: yield in Mississippi, 

 391: report from South Carolina, 433: our report, 

 166: in N. W. Ohio, 535: syrup from E. A., 590: 

 evaporating juice, 592; clarifying. 57. 



Enemies of Bees- 

 Ants, 25, 329, 431, 486, 578: tochina fly, 58: mice, 74, 

 157.163,278: toads. 119, 390: cockroaches. 125, 230: 

 dragon flies, 2;4: Braula, or It. b. louse, 264: ants 

 of New Mexico, 272: king-birds, or bee-martins, 

 287: moth, 329, 435, 43(5, 494, 531, 581 : bee-hawk, 372: 

 beetles, 372: bombilus Mex.,372: asilus Missouri- 

 en sis, 391, 482: mallophora bomb., 14, 482: stinging 

 bug, 482: black fly, 490: bee horse, 528: raccoons, 

 535 : skunks, 599. 



Extractors and Extracting— 



Ex. with vertical motion to crank, 29: ex. in Nov., 

 29: ex. all unsealed honey for winter, 31, how I in- 

 vented my ex., 59: a home-made ex., 118; a 50c ex., 

 157: ex. near hive, 179: how Hutchinson ex. hon- 

 ey, 255: Horner's ex., 274: substitute for wire 

 cloth in ex., 328: how many frs. in upper story for 

 ex.? 331: ex. the wires, 338. 



Feeders — 



Another, 70: a cheap feeder, 131, 233: f. to slip under 

 frames, 171: Parker's, 218: the. best, 358: how to 

 make, 584: a new water font, 592: Ledhetter's, 

 595; an improvement on covered Simps., 568. 



Feeding Bees 



Grape-sugar bee-candy, 17; early-amber sugar-pan* 1 , 

 13: benefits of feeding during scarce forage, 23; f. 

 a Sept. colony. 28; f. sugar to make honey, 32; f. 

 in open air, 74, 513; feeding sorghum, 154; flour 

 feeding in spring, 167; feeding honey in March, 174; 

 objections to feeding flour, 174; f. in spring. 234; 

 feeding ext. honey to get comb in sees.. 399, 546. 

 557; feeding back soured honey, 493; when and 

 how, 582; f. to make bees accept .quean,! 90; simple 

 way of f. sugar, 222, 224. 



Figwort— 



Manner of raising, 34, 68, 69, 122, 131, 179, 264, 276, 493, 

 526: medicinal qualities of, 79: is f. a bad weed? 79: 

 grown in boxes, 125: inMarch,159: whointroduced 

 it? 236: f. in May, 265: germinating seeds of, 282: 

 early and late f., 315: mistaken for weeds, 331, 339: 

 in July, 367: planting an acre, 380; in Minnosota, 



384: in Michigan, 412: transplanting, 484: in Arkan- 

 sas, 532: a failure, 540: is it hard to eradicate? 595. 

 Foul Brood- 

 How exterminated in Utah, 322: salicylic acid for, 330: 

 Kaye's notes about, 333: how to eradicate, 376: con- 

 tracted in buying comb, 549. 



Foreign Countries— 



From Germany, 17; from Scotland, 22; from New 

 Zealand, 120; from Cyprus, 215, 320, 391, 550; from 

 Palestine, 268; from Assam, 580; from Hindoostan, 

 603. 



Foundation— 



F. for comb honey, 31; flat-bottomed f. not a success, 

 33; the new $15 f. machine, 56; f. in sections, 59; 

 cheaper f. mills, 00; Bourgmyer's f. mill, 60; Giv- 

 en's f. machine, 61. 331,358, 360,361,451; to make 

 full sheets of f. with little wax, 77: wired frames 

 tor f., 78, 364; dipped f. v. rolled, 88; making f. at 

 one dipping, 109; flat-bottomed f. starters, 121; f. 

 machine with wooden rolls, 124; f. with square 

 cells, 126, 152; Dunham's machine for making f., 

 152; f. for surplus boxes, 179; flat-bottomed f . 207; 

 when shall we hang f. in hives? 223; progress of 

 the f. business, 254; drone v. worker f. for starters, 

 281; when to hang f. in hive, 284; something new 

 from Jones about f., 308; Cheshire's plan to hold 1'., 

 309,387,388; Faris f. machine, 312, 363,441,449,453, 

 494. 582; porcelain plates for f., 327; f. for new 

 swarms, 328; cutting f. starters on Sunday, 337; 

 Harrison's machine, 361; new way of making, 364; 

 puttingf.into wired brood frames, 377; Dunham f., 

 379; drone f. for honey, 382; fastening f. into 

 frames, 386: hardening plaster with alum, 389,444: 

 curling up. 435; keeping unused f.. 442; Foster's 

 dipping f.. 486; different kinds of f..540; dark f. for 

 brood chamber, 550; plaster for f. plates, 600. 



Frames- 

 Movable, vs. box hives, 71; carpeting to cover 

 f., 75; in one piece, 117; what to do with odd- 

 sized f., 119; uniform length of f., 129; short L. f. 

 compared with others, 131; to transfer movable f., 

 221; tongs to lift, 222; which f. is the best? 363; oth- 

 er f. than li., 363; deep or shallow f. for warm cli- 

 mates. 374: worn oil-cloth to cover f., 3S7; of candy, 

 438; different kinds, 467; mats to cover f.. 431. 

 tirade Sugar- 

 Cheapness of g. s. and sorghum, 105: g. s. that will 

 kill bees, lis, 170: difference between g. s. and 

 syrup, 124: g. s. that won't harden, 131: g. s. mor- 

 ally, 158: a humbug, 230: as a bee feed, 258: feed- 

 ing g. s., 307: feeding g. s. outdoors, 331: oak, 415: 

 g. s. for wintering, 442. 537, 518, 597: g. s. v. honey 

 as a bee feed, 543, 545: Davenport g. s.. 221. 

 Hives and Fixings— 



Shipping-crates, coior for, 21: size and shape of 

 starters. 23; legs for, 24: roofs, 26, carpet to cov- 

 er frames, 27: Scnvell's uncapping-box, 28; suc- 

 cessful decoy h., 29; chaff h. ahead for comb hon- 

 ey, 31; how near may h. be placed? 31; can h. be 

 too warm? 31; how to contract eut. for winter, 

 31; to put on a tin roof, 33; snow on h ., 35; Deanes 

 simp, chaff h., 37; corn fodder around, 66; winter 

 covering under cushions; and enameled sheets, 

 66; 8 or 10 frame, 69, 128-181; pasteboard paper for 

 rooting h., 74; wool for cushions, 78; packing chaff 

 cushions, 79; what to do with box h. that are short 

 of stores in winter, 80; cheap way to fix leaky 

 roofs, 80: leaky covers, 110; chaff h., v. cellar win- 

 tering, 120; size of entrances, 122; triangular 

 starters, 122; making water run from Simp, cov- 

 ers, 123; to prevent covers from leaking, 124, 209; 

 queenless hives in spring, 126; plank, v. chaff h., 

 128; stencil plates for marking h , 129; shavings 

 for packing, 129: chaff h., v. tenement, 159; patent 

 h., 167, 170, 277, 330, 385, «4; honey-boards, why not 

 needed, 169; alighting boards, one piece, 169; chaff 

 h. and A B C scholars. 172: fastening starters, 174; 

 painting inside, 175, 234, 271; odd-sized h., 182. 223; 

 case for I 1 2 story, 207; questions about chaff h., 

 219; chaff h., 177, 181, 221 : paint for h., 222, 319, 328. 

 340; separators of wire cloth. 224, 431; how to feed 

 box h., 231; paper slates for h.. 233, 277; box h. 

 not always a success, 233; chaff h. of lath, 233; to 

 get surplus from box h., 233; a h. of empty combs, 

 234; paper for h., 235; roofs for chaff h, 270; rin- 

 sing h. with salt water, 279; sloping entrances for 

 chaff h., 281; a big h., 311; the golden h., 318; sep- 

 arators of wire, 326, 542; Mrs. Cotton. s h., 328; use 

 of division boards, 328; comb-holder on chaff h., 

 331; sheets of enameled cloth, 358; Simp, upper 



