DECEMBER 15, 1913 



919 



Snowdrop, honey-plant, 648 ; Soap-box for hive, 565 ; 

 Soil, sweet and sour, 207 ; Solar extractor, to take 

 slumgum from, 570 ; Southern beekeeping, problems 

 different, 414 ; Southern honey from locust, 438 ; 

 Spacing of extracting combs, 840; Special numbers. 

 Dr. Miller on, 793; Speedometer for hives, 707; 

 Splints V. wire, 749, 793; Spray on clover kills bees, 

 337; Spraying bloom injures trees, 234; Spraying 

 blossoms in Ontario, 288, 366; Spraying blossoms. 

 Prof. Shaw on, 313; Spraying trees in bloom, 210, 

 211, 234, 288, 313, 366; Spring management. Cargo 

 on, 419 ; Start with bees, 582 ; Start with bees, 

 Strube on, 572 ; Starters top and bottom, to put in, 

 256; Stealing eggs, 907; Steam-boiler for artificial 

 ripening of honey, 444; Steam-knife, Holtermann • 

 on, 849 ; Steam-knife, H. H. Root on, 847 ; Steam- 

 knife, Morley Pettit on, 616 ; Steam-knife, tea-kettle 

 for, 377; Sting severe if left in wound, 172; Sting- 

 ing bees, 116; Stings, difference in virulence, 634; 

 Stings have no effect, 65 ; Stings, how bees extract, 

 878; Stings, is immunity from inherited? 860; 

 Stings, observations on, 383, 384, 385; Stites, Robt., 

 Colorado, 49 ; Stores, honey not well shown in, 445, 

 707 ; Stores, lack of in spring, 132 ; Straining, grav- 

 ity, 216; Straining, heating honey for, 794; Strain- 

 ing honey when extracted, 576 ; Sugar, feeding of, 

 404, 563; Sugar inferior to best honev for winter, 

 284; Sugar, is it wholesome for bees? 729, 858; 

 Sugar, loaf, for feeding bees, 30, 40, 272; Sugar, 

 soft A, 233; Sugar syrup v. honey, 141, 253, 328, 

 483; Sugar v. honey as food, 904; Sulphur for par- 

 alysis, 822 ; Sulphur for treating diseased bees, 778 ; 

 Super-rest, 350 ; Supers, brood in removed in fall, 

 733; Supers, eight-frame, entered quickly, 441,794; 

 Supers entered quiekiy in good flow, 903 ; Supers, 

 when to put on, 521 ; Supplies, cost of, 602 ; Swarm, 

 August, 305 ; Swarm, capture of starts interest in 

 bees, 583 ; Swarm carries foul brood, 795 ; Swarm 

 control, Atwater on, 310; Swarm control, dentist's 

 method, 369; Swarm dropped into hive, 316; Swarm, 

 foul brood from, 579, 633, 856; Swarm hived in 

 upper story, 4; Swarm issues if bees crowded, 351; 

 Swarm on fence rail, 300, 382; Swarm on fig tree, 

 410 ; Swarm from super on ground, 482 ; Swarm 

 prevented by caging queen, 618 ; Swarm prevented 

 by interchanging brood-frame, 333; Swarm pre- 

 vented by upper entrance, 381 ; Swarm prevention 

 in nine-frame hives, 654; Swarm, runaway, 297; 

 Swarm stings horse, 714; Swarm, study of for rec- 

 reation, 528 ; Swarm with clipped queen goes to 

 other hive, 437; Swarming, Burt system, Chadwick 

 on, 671; Swarming, changing halves of double brood- 

 nest, 301 ; Swarming, Colorado, 752 ; Swarming, de- 

 queening, to prevent, 194; Swarming, destroying 

 capped cells, to prevent, 284, 564; Swarming, Dr. 

 Miller on, 284, 408 ; Swarming, Doolittle plan not 

 success in Idaho, 310; Swarming, drones necessary 

 for, 286; Swarming, freaks of, 547; Swarming, 

 Humpert's plan, 674; Swarming in East, 292; 

 Swarming in North, 289 ; Swarming in South, 290 ; 

 Swarming, Junge-Pierce ventilators, 308; Swarming, 

 natural, is it profitable? 367; Swarming prevented 

 by forming nuclei, 298; Swarming prevented by 

 ventilation, 300; Swarming, queen and two combs 

 removed, 335 ; Swarming, queen-cells destroyed to 

 prevent, 284, 561; Swarms after four o'clock, 485; 

 Swarms attracted by rope, 464; Swarms carried in 

 sacks, 577; Swarms carrying foul brood, 579, 633, 

 856; Swarms cluster before leaving, 387; Swarms 

 cluster in various places, 316; Swarms from foul- 

 broody colony, 822; Swarms from limbs, 352; 

 Swarms from mating nuclei, 581 ; Swarms, shaken, 

 brood from, 408 ; Swarms, strange behavior of, Doo- 

 little on, 567; Swarms, three in hive, 304; Swarms, 

 why they don't carry foul brood, 734; Sweet clover 

 and alfalfa stood drouth, 692 ; Sweet clover " boost," 

 816; Sweet clover, Crane on, 794; Sweet clover 

 developed in West, 340; Sweet clover, Dr. Miller on, 

 705 ; Sweet-clover honey, 837 ; Sweet clover in 

 Ontario, 884; Sweet clover liked by cattle, 500; 

 Sweet clover, nectar in, 557, 669 ; Sweet clover pre- 

 vents land from washing, 645; Sweet-clover seed, 

 sowing, 819 ; Sweet-clover seed, to gather, 142. 



Tariff on honey ten cents, 749 ; Tariff reduction, 

 Foster on, 78 : faxes on bees, 142 ; Tea-kettle for 

 steam-knife, 377; Temper of bees varias, 710, 880; 

 Temperature, ideal in winter, 141, 439; Tempera- 

 ture, sudden drop, kills bees, 368; Tenement hives 

 in Russia, 262; Tent, bees around, 440; Terms, plea 

 for uniformity, 793; Texas, cold snap, 251; Texas 

 foul-brood law, 649 ; Texas honey-flow in November, 



882 ; Texas, new locations in, 882 ; Texas prospects, 

 111; Tin covers for comb-honey sections, 726; Tin, 

 paste for, 232, 351, 466; Tobacco smoke for bees, 

 840; Top-bars, thickness of, 204; Toronto, exhibit 

 of honey at, 601; Transferring from tree in Febru- 

 ary, 721; Transferring without drumming, 315; 

 Tree, colony taken from in February, 721; Tree, 

 combs in, smash, 620 ; Tree contains barrel of hon- 

 ey, 708 ; Tree, to remove bees from, 606. 



Uncapping-can v. melter, 846; Uncapping-cans of 

 galvanized tubs, 209; Uncapping-knife, steam, 377, 

 616, 847, 849; Uncapping-machine, latest form, 338; 

 Uncapping-melter v. can, 846 ; Uniting, Alexander 

 plan not success, 349; Uniting in spring, 315; Un- 

 ripened honey, extracting, 164; Unsealed honey may 

 be ripe, 793 ; Upper entrance, 381. 



Veil, collapsible, wanted, 110; Veils, Fox on, 116; 

 Veils, special wire cloth for, 481 ; Ventilated bee- 

 escape, 577, 776, 884; Ventilated bottom-board, 314; 

 Ventilation above packing, 329 ; Ventilation between 

 stories for swarming, 284; Ventilation causes un- 

 finished sections, 671; Ventilation for bees, amount 

 required, 204, 364; Ventilation outdoors and in- 

 doors, 439; Ventilation to prevent swarming, 300, 

 705, 793, 880; Ventilator and non-swarmer, 308; 

 Vicious bees in California, 329 ; Vinegar, honey, to 

 make, 906; Vinegar plant, W. W. Carey's, 854; 

 Virgin, effect of brood on, 382, 466, 535; Virgins 

 hatch if colonies left ten days, 669 ; Virgins intro- 

 duced by smoke plan, 734; Virgins introduced of 

 any age, 690 ; Virgins lost because of high wind, 

 692; Virgins, no hindrance to introducing, 481; 

 Virgins, to introduce, 504; Virgins, when to intro- 

 duce, 580 ; Vitality of northern and southern bees, 

 584. 



Wagon, apiary, Scholl's, 346; Wagon, loading hives 

 on, 25 ; Wall, to remove bees from, 606/^ Waste for 

 smoker fuel, 599, 775 ; Water, bees take in short 

 time, 822 ; Water for queen-cages, 692 ; Wax, amount 

 of honey bees consume to make, 481; Wax extractor, 

 solar, to get slunigum from, 570 ; Wax-extractors, 

 two kinds needed, 316; Wax from Hatch-Gemmel 

 press, 378; Wax-rendering economical, 124; Wax- 

 rendering with Hatch press, 498 ; Wax secretion 

 and comb-building, 405; Wax shipped in double 

 sacks, 205 ; Wax-tube rubber bulb, 123 ; Weight, 

 law requiring, on food packages, 462 ; Weight of 

 comb honey, shrinkage in, 822 ; Weight, selling comb 

 honey by, 461; Weighing scales special for apiaries, 

 437; Western Honey Bee, first issue, 285; Western 

 Honey Bee, publication of, 174 ; Wheeled chair, 

 working bees from, 812; White-clover grazing nec- 

 essary? 100, 108, 388; Whitewashing v. painting, 

 711; Willow for pollen and honey, 412: Willow, 

 honey from, 564; Windbreaks, Crane on, 249; Wind- 

 breaks, Halter on, 55 ; Windbreaks, Holtermann on, 

 269; Windbreaks, natural v. artificial, 181; Wind- 

 breaks prevent circulation of air, 108 ; Winter-case 

 for twelve hives, 682 ; Winter-case of coffee-box, 

 18; Winter-cases and moisture, 619; Winter-cases, 

 Holtermann's, 848; Winter-cases of old boxes, 345; 

 Winter feeding, Rexford on, 817; Winter-flights in 

 warm room, 860; Winter-nest controversy, 7. 76 

 108, 439, 482, 563 ; Winter protection, paper frame- 

 work for, 724; Winter sheds, List on, 681; Winter 

 stores, advantage of abundance of, 518, 600, 794 ; 

 Winter temperature, ideal, 141, 204; Wintering, A. 

 I. Root's directions for, 863; Wintering bees in 

 warm room. 182; Wintering, Beucus on, 718; Win- 

 tering, contracted brood-cliamber, 4; Wintering, 

 Crane's summary of, 109 ; Wintering, effect of mois- 

 ture on, 691; Wintering, Hand on, 716; Wintering 

 in box-hives, 163; Wintering in cold storage, 655; 

 Wintering nuclei in one hive, 652 ; Wintering on 

 solid combs of honey, 6; Wintering, position of 

 cluster, 725 : Wintering surplus queens in nuclei, 

 656; Wintering three-frame nuclei, 732; Wintering, 

 warm room for, 860; Wintering with screen-covered 

 bottom-board, 763; Wire v. splints, 749, 793; Wire- 

 cloth, special for veils, 402, 481; Wiring foundation, 

 799, 877; Wiring, plan for, 29; Wiring, when put- 

 ting frames together, 203 ; Woman as assistant bee- 

 keeper, 146; Woman, beekeeper forty years, 158; 

 Woman does any work in apiary, 162; Woman en- 

 .ioys work with bees, 620 ; Woman managing heavy 

 lifting, 145, 159; Woman that likes beekeeping, 160; 

 Woman's work with bees, 155; Women, dress of, in 

 apiary, 148, 152, 159; Worker comb, thickness of, 

 437 ; Workers undeveloped females, 65 ; Worker 

 combs from starters, 303. 



