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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE 



EDITORIALS. 



ABC and X Y Z, new edition of, 246; Adulter- 

 ation and misbranding honey cakes, 3 ; Adulteration 

 found in Connecticut, 71; Advance in the price of 

 hive lumber and supplies, 746 ; Alfalfa, cutting early, 

 873; American Bee Journal editor in Europe, 557, 

 701; Amherst convention and field day, 861; Am- 

 herst convention at Massachusetts, 434, 435 ; Api- 

 aries protected from the north wind, 325 ; Apiary of 

 Earl M. Nichols, 833; Apiary, our waterworks, 790; 

 Apiary, Zautner's, 665 ; Apicultural schools in the 

 country, 107; Apalachicola proposition of increasing 

 bees, 748, 789 ; Ault apiary, 325 ; Australian bee- 

 book, new, 397; Automobile truck for outyard, 245, 

 745, 790. 



Baby nuclei, advantages and disadvantages, 632 ; 

 Baby nuclei at the basswood grove, 631; Baldwin, 

 incorrect initials, 665 ; Basswood apiary, cell-build- 

 ing colonies in, 703 ; Basswood, conditions favorable 

 for growing, 631, 632; Basswood grove, ours, 631; 

 Bee, bumble, life history of, 73 ; Bee-cellar in Nor- 

 way, 668 ; Bee culture in Italy, 667 ; Bee culture 

 taught at the colleges, 107; Bee-escape board, ven- 

 tilated, 560; Beekeepers, the careless kind, 630; 

 Beekeepers, " one-horse " in the East, 201 ; Beekeep- 

 ing in Norway, 668 ; Bee-moth blessing in disguise, 

 362; Bee paper, new, ;n California, 201; Bee sup- 

 plies, increased cost of, 746; Bees and cranberry 

 growing, 478, 479; Bees and fruit, 169, 361, 399, 

 434, 478, 479 ; Bees and fruit, remarkable testimony, 

 561; Bees by parcel post, 169; Bees, digging them 

 out of the snow at Medina, 888 ; Bees doubling dur- 

 ing winter, 170; Bees, five-banders, 37; Bees in the 

 parcel post, 137; Bees, increasing, by moving south, 

 748; Bees killed by spraying, 399, 477, 665; Bees 

 liable to smother under snow, 836; Bees, long lived, 

 I ; Bees, moving in the height of winter, 72 ; Bees, 

 shipping without comb, 37, 169, 436; Bees brailing 

 honey-thieves, 2 ; Bees without comb denied parcel- 

 post privilege, 106 ; Bees without comb must have 

 water, 595 ; Beet sugar, ban removed from, 398 ; 

 Beginners' number, character of, 1 ; Betsinger wire 

 fence, 559 ; Blizzard of snow Nov. 9, 875 ; Blizzard 

 at Medina, 836; Bonney's method of fastening combs 

 in sections, 702 ; Book, Australian bee, 397 ; Book- 

 lets, free, on the use of honey, 666 ; Brick tenement 

 hives, 245 ; Brimstoning bees, A. I.'s experience, 71 ; 

 Brood-rearing causing consumption of stores, 1, 105 ; 

 Brood-rearing fostered by warm weather in winter, 

 833; Brooks on clover soil, 436; Bulletin from State 

 Entomologist of Indiana, 281; Bulletin on bees, New 

 York, 701; Bulletin on pollen collecting, 282; Bulle- 

 tin on sacbrood, 171; Bulletin on wax scales, 139; 

 Bulletins from the State of New York by Wright, 

 630; Bulletins from Tennessee, 631; Bulletins, new, 

 on bees to be noticed, 701 ; Bulletins, some now, on 

 bees, 630; Bumblebee, life history of, 73; Byard, 

 John L., superintendent at the bee-yard at Massa- 

 chusetts College, 666. 



California bee paper, new, 201, 281; California 

 honey crop a failure, 327 ; California winter freeze, 

 106; Canadian Bee Journal absorbed by the Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist, 477; Canadian uncapping-knife, 

 478; Candy, hard, giving bees in winter, 3, 137; 

 Candy made by I. R. Good, 789 ; Candy, new, for 

 bees, 435; Cape Cod cranberry growing, 478; Cap- 

 ping-melter, Peterson, 478 ; Car of bees, safe arrival 

 of in Florida, 834 ; Carload of bees to Florida, 875 ; 

 Carload of bees for Florida being loaded, 888 ; Car- 

 loads of bees moving south, to increase, 748, 789 ; 

 Casteel on manipulation of wax scales, 139; Casteel 

 on pollen collecting, 282; Cell-building colonies, 703; 

 Cellar wintering at Medina, 202; Clipping not prac- 

 ticed at Medina, 515; Clover abundant, 433; Clo- 

 vers, soil for, 436; Coggshall, D. H., death of, 105; 

 Coggshall, p. H., in memoriam of, 137; Comb-honey 

 canard again, 281; Comb honey cut and fastening 

 into sections, 702, 703 ; Comb honey, importance of 

 shipping early, 666 ; Comb honey in extracting- 

 frames, 792; Comb honey packed in straw or hay, 

 105; Comb honey produced in sections, Hand's sys- 

 tem, 875 ; Comb-honey production. Hand's new 

 scheme for, 791; Comb-honey production in shallow 

 frames v. comb-honey production in sections,' 791, 

 792; Combs, infected, cleaned out by bee-moth, 362; 

 '~'ombs, to get the bees to draw out per section, 791; 

 Combs, to get drawn out for sections, 791; Connec- 

 ticut, bee inspection in, 169 ; Connecticut foul-brood 

 law, 477; Convention at Amherst, Mass., 434, 435; 

 Convention at Toronto, 835 ; Convention dates, ar- 

 ranging not to conflict, 593 ; Convention, York State, 



875; Convention, Illinois State, 398; Convention, Na- 

 tional, 137; Convention of Ohio State Beekeepers, 

 105 ; Conventions, arranging dates for, 558 ; Cracked- 

 wheat muffins and honey, 514, 835; Cranberry grow- 

 ing at Cape Cod, 478 ; Cut combs put into sections 

 by J. E. Hand, 791. 



Dadant in Europe, 557 ; Der Bien und seine Zueht, 

 398; Donahey, the cartoonist, a beekeeper, 833; 

 "Dot makes no neffer mind," 630; Drones, schools 

 of, in the air, 513; Drouth broken, 666; Dual in- 

 troduction, 397. 



Editorials inspired by outdoor work, 513; Elec- 

 tric alarm for extracting purposes, 478 ; Electric 

 alarm for filling square cans, 478 ; Embargo on the 

 shipment of bees in Imperial County, Cal., 665 ; En- 

 trances closed by too deep snow, 836; Entrances, not 

 closed for moving, 745 ; Escape-board, ventilated, 

 560; European foul brood, Italians nearly immune, 

 631; European foul brood no trouble to the profes- 

 sional beekeeper, 876; Exhibit at Agricultural Col- 

 lege at Amherst, 593 ; Extracting at Medina, 477, 

 478 ; Extracting, central station, 203 ; Extracting 

 field-day at Amherst, 436; Extracting-house with sol- 

 id or screen doors, 202 ; Extracting, symposium on, 

 203 ; Extractor, advantage of large size, 203 ; Ex- 

 tractor, evolution of, 560. 



Feeding bees hard candy. See Candy, hard; 

 Feeding hard candy in the cellar, 3 ; Pence system, 

 who introduced it, 557 ; Fences made of wire for 

 producing fancy honey, 559 ; Five-banders not all 

 bad stingers, 37 ; Florida, carload of bees to, 875 : 

 Florida apiary of The A. I. Root Co., 748, 789, 834; 

 Fondant of the new bee candy, 435; Food value of 

 honey, 873 ; Food value of honey and sugar, 133 ; 

 Foster, death of, 201 ; Foul brood, European, no 

 trouble to the professional beekeeper, 876 ; Foul- 

 brood inspecting a good school, 557; Foul-brood 

 inspectors, meeting of, 71 ; Foul brood, new method 

 for curing, 876; Foul brood insured against, 

 665; Foul-brood law in Connecticut, 169, 477; 

 Foul-brood law in Iowa, 169; Foul-brood law 

 in Michigan, 170, 325; Foul-brood law in Texas, 

 665 ; Foul-brood law, Texas, why no appropriation, 

 704; Foul-brood legislation in the United States, 

 362; Foul brood spread by tramp beekeeper, 138; 

 Foundation painted with melted wax to prevent sag- 

 ging, 875; Foundation, to prevent stretching or 

 buckling, 875 ; Prame-tongs, when they may be a 

 necessity, 558; France's scheme for advertising hon- 

 ey, 665, 666 ; Freight rates lower in New South 

 Wales, 202; Fruit-grower and the bees, 169; Fruit 

 trees, fertilized by bees, remarkable testimony, 561, 

 562; Fuller's new bee candy, 435. 



German bee-book, Gerstung, 398 ; Gillette on spray- 

 ing, 361; Gleanings during the last forty years, 

 71; Gleanings for 1914, 790; Glucose in New Or- 

 leans molasses, 397 ; Good, I. R., death of, 789 ; 

 Government moving-picture film, 833 ; Grading, care- 

 lessness in, 170. 



Hand-book of apiculture by Zander, 327; Hand's 

 new scheme of producing comb honey, 791; Hand 

 system of producing comb honey in sections, 876; 

 Hard candy given bees in winter, 3, 137; Hay or 

 straw for packing fragile articles, 105; High cost of 

 living, 835; Hive, Long-idea, revi-sed, 436; Hives, 

 doubled-walled in the cellar, 2 ; Hives, increased 

 cost of, 746 ; Hodgson escape-board, 560 ; Honey a 

 concentrated food, 629 ; Honey adulterated, 701 ; 

 Honey and nectar, difiference between, 703 ; Honey 

 and sugar, food value of, 138; Honey and supplv 

 exhibits at Amherst, 593 ; Honey as a ifood, by Mad- 

 am Maeterlinck, 745 ; Honey, food value of, 873 ; 

 Honey by parcel post, 245 ; Honey cake by Maeter- 

 linck, 745 ; Honey capped over before extracting, 434; 

 Honey-crop conditions, 361, 433, 479, 513, 560; 

 Honey-crop reports from beekeepers, 596, 597, 598; 

 Honey-day in Indiana, 833; Honey for washing 

 clothes, 201 ; Honey production ■ at Medina, 478 ; 

 Honey-pump, 478; Honey ripening, natural v. arti- 

 ficial method, 703 ; Honey straining, carelessness in, 

 665 ; Honey, tariff on, 559 ; Honey, value of forty 

 years ago, 71 ; Huffman, Jacob, death of. 701 ; 

 Humpert's method of producing comb honey, 702, 

 703. 



Index for 1913, 873; Illinois State bee convention, 

 398 ; Imperial County bars shipment of bees, 665 ; 

 Indiana bulletin on bees, 281; Indiana honey-day, 

 833; Inspector work good experience, 557; Inspec- 

 tors, foul-brood, meeting of, 71 ; Insuring against 



