December, 1912. 



American "Bae Journal 



Dickel Theory— 197. 



Differences between Ontario and Xi)rtli 



I'Mrolina— im;. 

 Different Breeds— 149. 

 Dispiising of tlie Honey— 294. 

 Distingnished Apiarist— 26* 

 Dividing— 215. 

 Division Board— 20. 

 Dixies Climate— 174. 

 Do Hees Carrv Diseases to Fruit Trees? 



—lis. 

 Driving Bees out of Supers — 169. 

 Drone Son of His Grand Father— 105. 

 Drone Foundation— G. 

 Drones Death- 323, 37C. 

 Drones in Worker Cells and Vice-Versa 



—117. 

 Drones Mating— 56. 

 Editorial Policy— 133. 

 Knem.v of Bees — 265. 

 English Apiarist Appointed in Canada - 



2C6. 

 Entrances— 145. 

 Entrances— End or Side— 180. 

 Experiments in Bees— 32fi. 

 Experiments in Canada— 38. 

 Exchanging Supers— 198. 

 Extensive Bee-Keeping— 76. 

 Extracted Honey Proauction— .300. 

 Extractor Fastening — S. 

 Extractors— I Novice or Cowan)— 2.33. 

 Extractor.s— What size to get— 18. 

 Facing Hives in Winter — 106. 

 Failures in Bee-Keeping— 106. 

 Faira-233. 263. 326, 328, 329, 362, 370. 375. 377. 

 Feeders— 20, 54. 

 Feeding Candy— 53. 

 Feeding Combs of Granulated Honey— 



117. 

 Feeding Cubes of Sugar — 271. 

 Feeding for Winter Stores— 270. 344. 367. 

 Feeding Maple Sap— 149. 

 Feeding Stini\ilative— 56, 167. 

 Feeding Sugar — 262. 

 Feeding Thin Syrup— 85. 

 Fertile Queens and Virgins— 293. 

 Finland. Bees in— 324. 367. 

 Fire at Cincinnati— 298. 

 Florida— (Information wanted on")— 271. 

 Flowers and their color — 201. 

 Flowers. Fertilization— 365. 

 Fortv Inches and a Bee — 72. 

 Foul Brood and Pickled Brood— 166. 269. 

 Foul and Starved Brood— 241. 242. 

 Foul Brood and Queen Breeders— 230. 

 Foul Brood. Baldridge Treatment— 119. 

 Foul Brood-. Bees Resistant to— 11, 48. 101. 

 Foul Brood. Causing Swarming— 213. 

 Foul Brood Destrov or save the Comb— 



246. 

 Foul Brood. Dr. Zander on— 261. 

 Foul Brood. European Laws on — 200. 

 Foul Brood. European— 6. 119, 299, 359. 

 Foul Brood. European and its Treatment 



—211. 

 Foul Brood. European, cause of— 199. 

 Foul Brood. European, in Honey— 72. 

 Foul Brood. European, is 90 per cent 



Starved— 148. > 



Foul Brood. European or American— 106. 

 Foul Brood. European. Starved and 



Pickled— 147. 229. 

 Foul Brood, Greiner Treament— 79. 

 Foul Brood. Illinois Law— 311. 

 Foul Brood in Iowa— 272. 

 Foul Brood in Nebraska— 215. 

 Foul Brood in Trees, etc.— 53. 

 Foul Brood Malignant— 20. 106. 

 Foul Brood. N'umber of Diseased Cells— 



144. 

 Foul Brood. Samples of— 242. 

 Foul Brood Smell— 324. 



Foul Brood to those who have one— 197. 

 Foundation Fastening— 8, 20. 45, 86. 

 Frames. Self-Spacing— 143. 

 Frames. Divisible— 358, 371. 

 Fraudulent Packing— 5, 168. 

 Freight Rates— 13. 

 Fumigating Comb Honey— 51. 

 Getting Honey from Box Hive— 344. 

 Giving up $100 a Month for Bee-Keeping 



— 27S. 

 Glucose versus Honev— 18, 22. 

 Goddess of Plenty— 72. 

 Going South for Winter- 14. 

 Government and Bee Culture — 41. 

 Grading Honey— 167. 231, 2.3.i. 295. 

 Grafting Wax^l. 

 Graue Juice for Winter— 346. 

 Guide to Nature— .326. 

 Habits and Value of Bees— 309. 

 Handling and Smoking— 81, 144. 

 Have a Letter File— 105. 

 Heather Honey— 324. 



Health and Profit in Bee-Keeping— 114. 

 Hints for Apiary W^ork— J45. 

 Hints for Jun^llT. 



Honey 

 Hone>' 

 Honev 

 223, 

 Honey 



Honey 

 Honey 



Hints for May— 133. 



Hive Construction— 376. 



Hive Entrance— 211. 



Hive, Ten-Frame — 15. 



Hiving Bees in Sugar Barrel— 21G. 



Hiving Bees under Diflicultiea— 170. 



Honey Blending— 4S. 74, lii:i. 



Honey Crop Reports and Prospects— (See 



Reports.) 

 Honev Deceptive— 117, 216. 

 Honey Dew— 118, 360. 

 Honey Flora Acreage — 105. 

 Honev for Baby's Hiccough— 17i". 

 Honey from Bitter-Weed— 205, 346. 

 Honey from Horsemint — 297. 

 Honey from M.aple — 376. 

 Honey Gathered by One Colony— 5. 

 Honey Guide-Bird of Africa— 103. 

 Honey in Europe— 44. 



in Pollen Bags— 294. 

 Loosening Machine— 361. 

 Market— 31. 03, 95, 127, 159, 174, 191, 

 255, 287, 300. 319, 352, 364. 

 Plants and Trees— 47. 369. 

 Honey Points in Favor of— 207. 

 Honey Production Cost— 46. 



Ripening Artificially — 367. 

 Value as Food— 22, 44, 29S. 

 Horse-Dung for Smokers— 216. 

 Hot Water in Bee Cellar— 55. 

 How a Bee Finds its Way — 343. 

 How Bees Feed One Another— 304. 

 How t Feels to be a Bee— 234. 

 How Many Colonies for a Living— 207. 

 How Much can a Bee Carry— 232. 

 How Sweet is Honey?— 69. 

 How to Secure a Good Crop— 243. 

 Idaho— 296. 



Ill-Jointed Hives and Robbing— 198. 

 Immunity from Disease — 229. 

 Improvement in Bees— 11. 19, 50, 75, 87, 



111, 134, 262. 272. 274, 294, 325, 363, 369, 



3T2. 

 Increase. Making Economicallv— 20. 21, 



205, 376. 

 Inquiry from Japan— 279. 

 Inspection of Bees— 11. 103. 169. 

 Inspectors' Association — 40. 

 Introducing Queens— 6. 51, 181. 166. 305, S44. 

 Interest in Conventions^l66. 

 Isle of Wight Disease— 230, 324. 

 Italian. Leather-colored Bees— 182. 

 Italianizing Swarms— 246. 

 Japanese Bee-Keepers— 324. 336. 

 Jovs of Bee-Keeping — ^234. 

 Kansas Exhibit— 298. 

 Keep Better more Better Bees — 8, 47. 

 Keeping Bees both North and South — 12. 

 Knife, Steam Heated— 269. 

 Large Hives or Carniolans— 311. 

 Larvae, do Bees Move? — 15. 

 Legal Honey in Ausitralia- 263. 

 Lesson of the Bees — fPoem") — 10. 

 Life of a Bee— (?•)— 278. 

 Lime as Help to Honey Crop— 265. 

 Losses by Spring Dwindling— 246. 

 L>'ing Advertisements — 103. 

 Mailing Regulations for Queens — 165. 

 Mailing System of the World— 197. 

 Man put to Flight— 170, 234. 

 Management of and for Increase — 84. 86. 

 Management. Spring — 367. 

 Marking the Hive Tool— 171. 

 Markings and Color of Bees— 108. 

 Massachusetts Course in Apiculture — 130 

 MEETINGS— 7. 3.8. 173, 335. 



California— 42. 361. 



Chicago Northwestern — 7, 362. 



Colorado, Boulder— 334. 



Colorado, Fremont Co.— 11. 



Colorado, Montezuma Co. — 333. 



Colorado. Montrose — 204. 



Colorado State— 138. 362. 



Connecticut— 87. 



Dakota. South— 23. 73. 



Idaho and East Oregon— 265. 



Illinois. Casev — 17^). 



Illinois. Eastern— 199, 232. 



Illinois. Northern and S. Wis— 298. 



Illinois State— 29S, 360. 



Iowa— 41, 324. 327, 361. 



Kansas— 266. 328. 



M.issachusetts— 73, 328. 



:Michigan N. — 12. 73. 



Missouri— 23.3, 264. 



National- 7, 9. 37, 42, 78. 328. 



New York— 9, 179. 



New York. Eastern— 77. 



Oklahoma— 9. 78. 



fintario- 302. 336. 



nVnnessee — 9. 



Texas— 73. 239. 268. 



Washington— 362. 



Wisconsin— 23. 71. 179. ,361. 

 Jlelting Combs— 21.5. 

 Mi-ndelism and Heredity— S3. 

 Mice— 138. 



Middleman's Profit— 234, 293. 



Middlemen and Co-operation- 299. 



Miller's Answers— (Dr.) — 198. 



Million for a Wife- 200. 



Missouri State Association and the Na 



tional— 2U1. 

 Mortality of Bees— 181. 

 Moths— 17, 180, 277, 310. 

 Movable Frame Hive Advantages— 142. 

 Moving Bees— 206, 238, 267,, 344, 364. 

 Mustard Honey— 13. 

 Nails for Shipping Cases— 73, 168 342. 

 National Association — 72, 201. 

 Neck Bleach— 332. 

 New Irrigated Regions— 108. 

 No More Bees to Imperial Co.— 72. 

 No Queens for Sale — 142. 

 N OS em, a Apis— 230. 

 Not Afraid of Bees— 298. 

 Noted Visitor in Dixie— 143. 

 Nuclei— 279, 310. 

 Nucleus Hive— 20. 



Number of Eggs laid by Queen— 308, 34b 

 Oatmeal Bread with Honey— 332. 

 Observations of Progressive Bee-Keepers 



341. 

 Odor of Bees— 229. 

 Ontario Experimental Farm— 266. 

 Ontario College Experiments— 169. 

 Opportunities — 15. 

 Order and Tidiness— 52. 

 Oregon— 296. 



Origin of First Kiss— 104. 

 Out Apiaries— 181, 303. 

 Painting Hives— 20, 119. 

 Paper for Roofs— 21. 

 Paralvsis— 148. 230. 

 Parcels Post— 71. 105, 197. 

 Picture Contest— 362. 

 Pioneer Bee-Keeper — 236. 

 Poisoning Bees— 214, 262. 

 Poor Queens— 277. 

 Poplar Trees for Honev— 202. 

 PREVENTION OF SWARMING— 



Allen System— 311. 



Demaree Svstem— 207. 



Miller Svstem— 85, 245. 



By Cutting out Queen Cells— 214. 



With Excluder— 170. 



With Queen Trap— ISO. 

 Prevention of Honey Granulation— 86. 

 Price of Honey in South Africa— 167. 

 Prizes offered in Missouri— 326. 

 Producers Sell too Low — 347. 

 Protecting Comb.s— 181. 

 Pueblo County Bee-Keeping — 139. 

 Queen at the Entrance — 247. 

 Queen Bereders and Foul Brood— 230. 

 Queen Breeders Wanted— 364. 

 Queen Cells, s-iving to Nuclei — ^279. 

 Queen Cells in large number— 175. 225. 

 Queen Cells and requeening— S4. 

 (Jueen Deformed When Hatched— 278. 

 Queen Excluder— 170. 367. 

 Queen Experience, unusual— 80. 

 Queen Finding— 84. 134. 

 Queen Introducing— 358. 

 Queen Laying Drone Eggs- 247. 

 Queen Leather Colored— 213. 

 Queen Questions'— 54. 118. 

 Queen Rearing— 149. 236. .358. 371. 

 Queen Rearing. Alley Plan— 10. 

 Queen Rearing. Miller Plan— 243, 269. 

 Queen Rearing Inspection— 311. 

 Queen Size of Virgin and Laying— 5. 

 Queens Fertilized near Hives— 302. 

 Queen Keeping over Winter— 53. 

 Queens Mate, how often?— 268. 

 Queens Tested and Untested— 148. 

 Queens Value as Breeders— 176. 

 Queer Behavior of Bees— 298. 

 Quieting the Bees— 205. 

 Races of Bees— 37. 

 Railroads— 172. 

 Recipes— 233. 267. 375. 

 Reciprocity— 302. 

 Red Clover Bees— 269. 

 Removing Supers- 174. 271. 

 REPORTS AND PROSPECTS— 



Arkansas— 22. ST. 



California -22. 55. 56, 76, ,87. 119, 121, 



1,50 IS' 216 2.31. 247. 280. 312. 339. 347. 



Canada-22. 56. 141. 173. 206. 23.3, 336, 377. 



Colorado— 55. 



Connecticut— 121. 



Dixie— 174. 238. 271. 337. 



General— 323. 



Idaho- 150. 280. 



Illinois-23. 87, 280, 312, 3.3'. 347. 362. 

 377. 378. 



Indiana— 87. 312. 



Iowa— 55. 87. 150. 151. 279. 280, 312, 347, 

 377. 378. 



Kansas— 23. 216. 247. 280. 



Kentucky— 280. 312. 



Massachusetts— 55. 150. 



Michigan-22. 23. 312, 347. 



