GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



592; Shallow frames need no wire 156; Shallow 

 frames for comb honey 610 ; Shallow supers pre- 

 ferred 39 ; Shallow-frame supers, more honey 

 from 674 ; Shaptal clover 54, 265 ; Shed of bark 

 for bees 277 ; Sheds for hives 202 ; Sheds, labor- 

 saving 784 ; Shipping 600 colonies in hot weather 

 540 ; Shipping a few colonies a long distance 

 475 ; Shipping bees by the carload 411, 574 ; 

 Shipping honey with bill of lading attached 109 ; 

 Shipping honey in carlots, symposium on 459 ; 

 Shipping honey, to load the cars 455 ; Shipping 

 honey, loss by breakage in 100 ; Shipping-cases 

 without glass 526 ; Shipping-cases of corrugated 

 paper, see Paper shipping-cases ; Shipping-cases, 

 double-tier. Dr. Miller on 20S ; Shipping-cases of 

 wood have weak covers 758 ; Shipping-cases 

 double-tier 100, 122, 191, 224, 295 ; Shipping- 

 cases, glass for, not necessary 467 ; Show-cases, 

 small, not recommended 191 ; Sight of bees 454 ; 

 Simpson or spider plant 286 ; Skunk cabbage 

 200 ; Smell, sense of in drones 74 ; Smoke re- 

 placed bv chemical fumes 476 ; Smoker with 

 handle 379 ; Smoker, how to hold 690 ; Smokers, 

 how to handle to avoid being stung 249 ; Smok- 

 ing not necessary for new swarms 244 ; Smother- 

 ing of swarms 390 ; Sneezing when working with 

 bees 413 ; Solar extractors, difference in wax 

 from 6'96 ; Soola clover 265 ; Sorghum for feed- 

 ing 412, 7S7 ; Souring of honey 128 ; Souring 

 of a part of a lot of honey 744 ; Spacing wide 

 in winter 181 ; Spraying blossoms, carbolic acid 

 used in mixture 611 ; Specializing in bees 733 ; 

 Spider plant 91 ; Spain, bee flora of 456 ; Splints 

 coated with shellac to prevent gnawing 729 ; 

 Splints boiled an hour 690 ; Splints made of 

 chair-seat cane 524 ; Splints made of oane poles 

 710 ; Splints ta support light foundation 295 ; 

 Splints in grooved top and bottom-bars 18 ; 

 Splints badly gnawed 320 ; Splints all right if 

 used right 411 ; Splints v. wires IS'O, 612, 624, 

 674 ; Splints 5 in. long better than full length 

 4z6 ; Splints, short, not satisfactory 590 ; Splints, 

 short, used by Green 562 ; Splints, to improve, 

 Green on 562 ; Splints, made from can,e poles 

 710 ; Splints all right in upper story 445 ; 

 Splints V. wires to prevent breakage 612, 624 ; 

 Splints, short, not satisfactory 656 ; Splints, 

 waxing foundation to bottom-bar when using 

 490 ; Splints, size of foundation to use with 454 ; 

 Splints, short, satisfactory 745 ; Splints, why 

 bees gnaw them 628, 629 ; Splints, why they 

 failed in one case 330 ; Splints, reasons for using 

 624 ; Split sections, extra-thin foundation used 

 in 730 ; Split sections, labels for 676 ; Spring 

 late in Vermont 360 ; Spring protection from 

 winds 111 ; Spring manipulation not necessary 

 227 ; Spring management, Doolittle on 266 ; 

 Spring, early manipulating not necessary 125, 

 227 ; Springs, cold, retard progress 227 ; Start- 

 ers of comb instead of foundation 738 ; Starters 

 V. full sheets for comb honey 604 ; Station to 

 insure fertilization of queens 74 ; Stimulating 

 bees, see Shaking for stimulus ; Stinging of stock 

 255, 286 ; Stinging not always fatal to queens 

 454 ; Stinging, to avoid 249 ; Stingless bees 22 ; 

 Stings will not cure rheumatism 784 ; Stomach 

 of' bee 534 ; Stores, for winter, an indication of 

 52 ; Stores, plenty needed till honey-flow 334, 

 345 ; Storm-doors not profitable 255, 320 ; Strain- 

 er, modified Alexander 39 ; Strainer, Pettifs 143, 

 252, 530 ; Sugar consumed in the United States 

 50, 157 ; Sugar syrup, to remove from estract- 

 ing-combs 378 ; Sugar from beets, favorable tes- 

 timony for 39, 157 ; Sugar, production of beet 

 equals that of cane 50 ; Sumac and other fall 

 flowers 598 ; Sunflowers for bees 299 ; Sun keeps 

 honey liquid 496, 693 ; Sunflowers for bees and 

 chickens 54 ; Super, every part of worked at 

 once 139 ; Super, proper place for comb-building 

 745 ; Super, T, too short 223 ; Supers, shallow, 

 used in the North 625 ; Supers, to free from 

 bees 657 ; Supers, empty, where to place 364, 

 490, 558, 579, 592, 625 ; Supers, artificial heat 

 in 731 ; Supers, Foster's plan to remove 'bees 

 from 657 ; Supers, Miller on arrangement of 364 ; 

 Supers, to tell when full without tearing hive 

 apart 600 ; Supers, to clean in winter 725 ; 

 Supers, when to put on 98, 100, 407 ; Supersed- 

 ing left with bees 122 ; Superseding in Texas 



424 ; Superseding in Europe, how developed 595 ; 

 Superseding queens, Doolittle on 361 ; Supersed- 

 ing, difference between blacks and Italians 759 ; 

 Superseding, Crane's bees slow at 100 ; Super- 

 sedure, when advised 50 ; Supersedure, natural. 

 Hand on 26 ; Supplies, kind to adopt 211 ; Sup- 

 lies, ordering early 102 ; Swarm automatically 

 hived 336, 339, 758 ; Swarm control in Cali- 

 fornia 280 ; Swarm control, Dr. Miller's system 

 301 ; Swarm issues long before cells are sealed 

 711 ; Swarm not following scouts 477 ; Swarm, 

 part of, returning to old hive 425 ; Swarm, to 

 remove from inaccessible place 476 ; Swarm, 

 newly hived, leaves in spite of precaution 498 ; 

 Swarm, niethod of introducing 644 ; Swarm, 

 many dead bees in front of hive 380 ; Swarm, to 

 change position of cluster 295 ; Swarms carry- 

 ing foul brood 785 ; Swarms scarce at Dr. Mil- 

 ler's 656, 690 ; Swarms, bees of, killing each 

 other 475; Swarms, can they carry foul brood? 

 787 ; Swarms, natural, energy of 490, 524, 592 ; 

 Swarms, first of season before cells are ripe 

 547 ; Swarms, to make stay hived 656 ; Swarms, 

 how to make stay hived 590, 656 ; Swarms, more 

 than one clustered together 408 ; Swarms, to re- 

 move without climbing trees 337 ; Swarms, none 

 from colony 45 years old 380 ; Swarms, to take 

 care of so as to avoid increase 514; Swa;ias, 

 two uniting 443 ; Swarms, Todd's questions on 

 469 ; Swarming controlled by Swift 697 ; Swarm- 

 ing controlled by shaking 195 ; Swarming dis- 

 couraged by empty super below brood 89 ; 

 Swarming, is there a non-swarming race? 335; 

 Swarming fever, to prevent 443 ; Swarming less- 

 ened by drawn combs in extracting-supers 490 ; 

 Swarming without increase 318 ; Swarming con- 

 trolled by climatic conditions 335 ; Swarming 

 prevented by extra ventilation 53, 229, 638, 

 691, 693 ; Swarming with virgins leaves colony 

 queenless 182 ; Swarm-catcher, home-made 445 ; 

 Swarm-hiving, Towui^end on 407 ; Sweet clover 

 where nothing else will grow 381 ; Sweet clover 

 looks good for another year 657 ; Sweet clover 

 valuable for bees 268 ; Sweet clover among corn 

 445 ; Sweet clover to flavor other honey 135 ; 

 Sweet clover, Coverdale on growing 312 ; Sweet 

 clover, amount to sow per acre 145 ; Sweet 

 clover, yield per acre 691 ; Sweet clover, number 

 of bees on, counted 644 ; Sweet clover, white, 

 earlier than yellow 422 ; Swiss non-swarming 

 bees 269 ; Sjrup not sufladent for brood-rearing 

 376 ; Syrup fed in cold weather under cluster 

 59, 74 ; Syrup, Brunnich on thick and thin 742 ; 

 Syrup, Crane on proper density of 758 ; Syrup, 

 thick v. thin for fall feeding, Crane on 230 ; 

 Syrup, thick v. thin 590, 742 ; Syrup, very thick, 

 not practicable 690 ; Syrup, three parts sugar to 

 one of water too thick 724 ; Syrup, acid to pre- 

 vent candying 656, 658. 



Taking off honey quickly to avoid robbers 411 ; 

 Tanglefoot honey kills bees 349 ; Tanzy for 

 stopping robbing 612 ; Tariff on unrefined sugar 

 76 ; Tariff on honey and wax 127 ; Tariff on 

 honey and wax not favored 65 ; Tartaric acid, 

 amount to prevent candying 656, 658 ; Telephone 

 wires killing bees 577 ; Telescope cover 78 ; 

 Temperature, high, all right if air is pure 122. 

 164, 190 ; Territorial fair, Lossing's exhibit at 

 503 ; Testing honey 696 ; Texas convention 733 ; 

 Texas convention program 423 ; Texas fair 559, 

 597, 692 ; Texas, prospects for next season 53, 

 29 1, 491; Texas, spring crop 359; Texas, bees 

 in good condition in 102 ; Thieves, to get rid of 

 645 ; Tiering supers 455 ; Tobacco harmful to 

 bees 787 ; Transferring at night by electric light 

 251 ; Transferring without cutting combs — 

 Townsend on 497 ; Transferring, old plan for 

 230 ; Transferring, interesting time during 253 ; 

 Travel-stain, Crane's honey-board to prevent IS, 

 428 ; Travel-stain in supers over Punic colony 

 513 ; Trees, comb-building in 182 ; Trees, death- 

 rate in. greater than in hives 182 ; Trees, is 

 foul brood found in? 677; Turkey, sectional 

 hives in 611. 



Uncapped sections in the fall, to prevent many 

 of 493 ; Uncapping not like cutting meat 531 ; 

 Uncapping with up and down stroke 180; Un- 

 capping with butcher-knife, down stroke 423 ; 

 Uncapping downward 35, 36, 53, 102 ; Uncapping 



