DECEMBER 15, 1913 



Grading sections containing pollen, 388; Grading, 

 standard system of colors, 465; Grading, weights for, 

 563; Grandpa Nickel, 19; Granulated honey, lique- 

 fying, 797: Granulated honey, to cut for market, 

 500; Granulation, heating honey before, 234; Gran- 

 ulation in comb iioney, to prevent, 62 ; Granulation, 

 temperature change hastens, 248, 400; Grapes for 

 raisins and wine, 822; Grass, chemical to destroy, 

 821- Grass kept down by sheep, 707; Greasewood 

 or chico, 385. 520, 600; Grocers, retail, selling hon- 

 ey to, 455; Grouping of hives in apiary, 636. 



Hand-car in apiary, 221: Hands across the sea, 

 885- Hands, to remove honey from, 4; Heating hon- 

 ey to liquefv, 797; Helper in apiary, unsatisfactory 

 experience, 58, 174, 420, 421, 466; Hill, F. B., of 

 Colorado, 50; Hive indicator, Johnson's, 762; Hive 

 in-side varnished bv bees, 822 ; Hive lumber, advance 

 in price of 750: Hive lumber soaked in oil, 750: 

 Hivo numbers, S'choll, 43 ; Hive painted light or 

 dark 584: Hive record, board v. book. 880; Hive 

 records and efficiencv, 440 ; Hive-scraper, 582 : Hive, 

 size of A. C. Miller on, 643 : Hive stand, B. Keap's, 

 503- Hive tongs, or pliers, 573, 574; Hive-tool made 

 of sheep-shears, 65 ; Hive, Scholl's, 403 ; Hive, Whit- 

 ten's open back. 772; Hives, Danzenbaker, high 

 pressure, 767: Hives, eight-frame, bees enter supers 

 quickly 441, 794 ; Hives^ home v. factory made, 485, 

 813; Hives, locating in apiary. 636; Hives, remodel- 

 in" 602 • Hives, reversible, 423 ; Hives too close to- 

 gether, 189; Hives, size of, 441, 517, 518; Hive 

 wall is it porous? 902; Hoffman frames with square 

 end-bars 423: Holtermann, R. F., visit with, 844; 

 Home-made hives, 413, 813; Homes of beekeepers, 

 410; Honey, ?17 worth from one colony, 316; Hon- 

 ev 416 lbs. from 24-vear-old colony. 316; Honey, 

 1000 lbs. from one colony, 620; Honey-bound brood 

 chambers. 250; Honey canard, 366; Honey-cases, to 

 strengthen. 4 66: Honey crop, Canadian, comb or 

 extracted, 669; Honev-crop conditions in Colorado, 

 440- Honev crop. Merchant's, 652; Honey cure for 

 sick headache, 543; Honey, dark, sells slowly, 452; 

 Honey darkened by brood combs above excluder, 366; 

 Honev-dew candied, 837; Honey-dew on pine, 614; 

 Honey-dew, to recognize, 64, 350; Honey, Dr. Mill- 

 er's record vield, 878; Honey exhibits, Connecticut 

 Fair. 755 ; Honev flavor v. color, Byer on, 6 ; Hon- 

 ey-flow, good in Marengo, 481; Honey-flow, making 

 most of, 175 ; Honey-flow, November, in Texas, 882 ; 

 Honev for soldiers. 173 ; Honey from same plants 

 varies, 48, 173, 483, 671, 793, 838, 881; Honey from 

 South,' flavor of, 707; Honey, great demand for in 

 Canada, 141 ; Honey-house plans, 63 ; Honey, how 

 made, Doolittle on, '367; Honey in cappings, 378; 

 Honey in earlv spring for winter stores, 272 ; Honey 

 kept indefinitely, 706, 712: Honey markets, Colora- 

 do, 40 ; Honey" not fairly presented in stores, 445, 

 707: Honev packages, fight for net weight, 566; 

 Honev, place to keep, 583 ; Honey, price compared 

 with "other commodities, 140; Honey prospects in 

 California, 143 ; Honey recipes, Mrs. Rauchfuss', 

 365; Honev, smaller package wanted for, 519: Hon- 

 ey-tanks below extractor, 230; Honey, taste for ac- 

 q'uired, 732; Honey, Terry endorses, 633; Honey, 

 water in, 706; Honey v. sugar as food, 877, 904; 

 Honey v. sugar svrup, 141. 253, 328, 483 : Hornets, 

 fight with, 11: Horse hair for stopping robbing, 820; 

 Horse stung by swarm, 714; Horses in apiary, 204 ; 

 House apiaries. Crane on, 41 ; House apiary, mixing 

 of bees. 64. 



Idaho, five years record, 778; Idaho, foul-brood 

 inspection in, 760; Imbedding, heat from stove for, 

 799, 877: Increase, 28 colonies to 76, 30; Increase 

 after honev-flow, 180; Increase. Alexander plan, 284, 

 298, 314, 366, 424, 809, 908; Increase and decrease, 

 305; Increase, at outyards, 284: Increase by shak- 

 ing into boxes. 312; Increase, Dr. Miller on Alex- 

 ander plan, 284; Increase during winter, 182; In- 

 crease, Elsbree's plan, 548: Increase, feeding during. 

 315; Increase from 25 to 90 colonies, 734; Increase, 

 honey at the same time, 63. 129. 386; Increase, pre- 

 paring for, in September. 654 ; Increase, psychology 

 of, 672: Increase, rapid, to make, 163, 821; In- 

 crease. September. 753. 905: Increase, Wilder on, 

 291; Indiana, bees in .lefferson County, 645; Indi- 

 ana, early yield good. 722; Indians, E. R. Root on, 

 343; Insectology-. 905; Inspector discontinued, 708 ; 

 Inspectors, California, chanse in, 331; Inspection in 

 Iowa. Chadwick on, 285 : Inspection, making most 

 of, 856: Interstate shipment of diseased bees. 78: 

 Introducing after maiming old queen, 76. 877 : In- 

 troducing, smoke method, caution, 768, 821; Intro- 

 ducing, smoke method, Chadwick on, 708. 796, 881 ; 

 Introducing, smoke method, Cheney on, 684 ; Intro- 



917 



ducing, smoke method, Holtermann on, 902 ; Intro- 

 ducing, smoke method, Marchant on, 804; Introduc- 

 ing, smoke method. Miller's original plan, 370; In- 

 troducing, smoke method successful, 692, 731, 907, 

 908 : Introducing virgins by smoke plan, 734 ; In- 

 troducing virgins of any age, 690; Introducing with 

 virgins in hive, 481; Introducing-cage, Small's, not 

 success, 64; Italians v. Carniolans, 798; Italians 

 revert to black, 129; Inventory of apiary, 774; In- 

 ventions of last forty years, 90; Irrigation water 

 scarce in Arkansas Valley, 440; Isbell, Melvin, death 

 of, 388: Isle-of-Wight disease, 76, 647; Italians v. 

 Carniolans, Atwater on, 61; Italians four miles from 

 their hives, 751 ; Italians, laying above brood-nest, 

 438 ; Italians v. blacks, 41 ; Italianizing after honey- 

 flow, 386; Italianizing, Chadwick on, 519. 



Jamaican honey, fermentation of, 64; .Johnson, E. 

 •J., as beekeeper. 761. 



Kansas and Oklahoma, good locations in, 194; 

 Kansas, beekeeping in, 340; Kerosene-cans prohibit- 

 ed in Victoria, 534. 



Labeling tin, 232, 351, 466; Langstroth hive, 

 birthplace of, 853; Langstroth's relatives, informa- 

 tion wanted, 908 : Larva with head at bottom of cell, 

 21; Larvre, dead, spread disease, 190; Larva, why 

 not sealed, 271; Law compelling movable frames, 

 329; Law, foul brood. See Foul Brood; Law re- 

 quiring weight on food packages, 462 ; Laying work- 

 er caught in act, 818; Laying-worker hive, getting 

 queen in, 813 ; Laying workers from over-fed larvae, 

 490; Laying workers, James on, 266; Laying work- 

 ers, to get rid of, 75; Leather frame spacers, 204; 

 Legislation. See Law, Foul-brood Law, etc. ; Letters 

 on surface of comb honey, 17; Lime in cellars, 400; 

 Liquefying, Scholl on, 797; Live-bee demonstration, 

 653 ; Living bees reduce cost of, 678 ; Loaf sugar for 

 winter feeding, 30; Location, Byer on choosing, 294; 

 Location, importance of knowing, 45 ; Locust honey, 

 good quality. 438; Longevity of Carniolans, 76; 

 Longevity, Doolittle on, 144; Longevity, effect of 

 sugar on, 729 ; Longevity v. prolificness, 8, 249 ; 

 Longevity, Tanton on, 463 ; Lumber, advance in 

 price of, 750; Lumber, increase in price of, 843; 

 Lumber soaked in oil for hives, 750. 



Mailing-cages, escorts for queens, 208 ; Mail-order 

 business for honey, 458 ; Mails injure queen, 771 ; 

 Mating close to hives, 288 ; Mating nuclei, putting 

 bees in, 504 ; Mating-nuclei swarm, 581 ; Mating of 

 queens, science of, 655 ; Mating queens from upper 

 story, 349; Mating stations, Bruennich on, 493; 

 Mating stations, Heberle on, 497; Mating, twice of 

 queens, 490 ; Melted combs, cocoons in, 583 • Melting 

 down of combs, 776 ; Mice, screen over entrance, 

 731; Mickwitz, memoriam of, 307; Middlemen con- 

 trolling prices, 368; Middleman, Dr. Miller on, 328; 

 Middleman, Doolittle on. 250; Migratory beekeeping, 

 auto truck for, 213, 231; Minnesota, field notes from, 

 731; Minnesota, University of, beekeeping taught in, 

 899: Moisture, effect on wintering, 691; Mold in 

 double-walled hives, 351 ; Mosquito-hawks, birds to 

 destroy, 821 ; Moths, keeping combs free from in 

 summer, 486; Moths, protecting combs from, 47, 112, 

 547: Motor boat for out-apiaries, 251, 882; Moving 

 250 colonies 210 miles, 530; Moving bees, Doolittle 

 on, 754 ; Moving bees in refrigerator car, 905 ; Mov- 

 ing. Byer s prospective trip, 366; Moving extracting 

 outfit, 216; Moving house confuses bees, 584; Moving 

 pictures and beekeeping, 709 ; Moving with open en- 

 trance, 837, 840, 841. 



Nailing device, Byer's. 679 ; Nailing hives, cost of, 

 602; Nebraska, beekeeping in, 340; Nectar from 

 same plant varies, 483; Nectar, water in, 164; New 

 South Wales, beekeeping in, 728: New Zealand, 

 American methods failed, 809 ; New Zealand Associa- 

 tion reconstructed, 821; New Zealand beekeepers' 

 new organization, 620; New Zealand convention, re- 

 port of. 615 : New Zealand co-operative association, 

 424: New Zealand field dav, 374; New Zealand. 

 Gidley's experience, 462: New Zealand methods 

 of selling honey, 453 : Nuclei for mating, putting 

 bees in, 504 ; Nuclei for wintering surplus queens, 

 732: Nuclei formed to prevent swarming, 298; Nu- 

 clei in fall, advantage of. 752: Nuclei swarm, 581; 

 Nuclei wintered in one hive, 652; Numbering, deci- 

 mal s>sfem. 336; Numbering hives in New" South 

 Wales, 728 ; Numbers, Scholl's, 43 ; Nursery cage, 

 Bankston's. 187. 



Observatory hive in greenhouse, 186 : Observatory 

 hive. Whitten's, 772 ; Odor theory, 843, 777 ; Okla- 

 homa and Kansas, good locations in, 194 ; Oklahoma, 

 beekeeping in, 340: Olden times, Doolittle on, 77; 

 Ontario Beekeepers' Association, 751 ; Ontario, H. 



