DECEMBER 15, 1912 



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J. E., on the sick list 429: Harbison, John S., death 

 of 679; Hive, double-walled, wintering in cellar 

 788 ; Hives, improvements of 2 ; Honey as a food 

 261: Honey becoming better known 187; Honey- 

 bread 187 : Honey by the cisternful 465 ; Honey 

 cheap for manufacturing purposes 185; Honey crop, 

 conditions for 1912 219, 393. 465, 538, 573, 609, 

 645; Honey-crop reports for 1912, 430, 501; Honey 

 crop, unreliable press reports concerning 609; Hon- 

 ey damaged by fire 715; Honey-flow heavy at Me- 

 dina 465; Honey for the sick 261; Honey for in- 

 crease 3; Honey market less Ijefore Christmas 34; 

 Honey prohibited from British South Africa 715 ; 

 Honey, ripening artificially 611; Honey ruled out 

 by food inspector 715; Honey, shipping by freight 

 or express 65; Honey, specific gravity of 716; Hon- 

 ev statistics 67, 68, 95 ; Honey statistics for Ohio 

 502 ; Honey, to boil, for queen-cage candy 222 ; 

 Honey value in medicine 260; Honey, weight per 

 gallon 716; Honey year, old-fashioned 360; Hop- 

 kins on ripening honey 611; Horse stung to death 

 715; House on giving bees plenty of stores 679. 



Indiana State Beekeepers' Convention 123 ; In- 

 ventions of beginners 2 ; Issues, special, for. 1912 1 ; 



Legislative committee of the National 34; Lime, 

 how it helps the clovers in poor season 291 ; Lime 

 for clover 97: Lime to make clovers grow 65; Lino- 

 type machine for Gi^eaxinGS 359. 



Market bare of comb honey 35 ; Massachusetts 

 beekeepers' organization 715; Migratory beekeeping 

 vs. wintering in the North 502; Miller, Dr., recov- 

 ering "from grip 259 ; Mistakes of beginners 1 ; 

 Moving bees without screens 429 ; Muth Company 

 burned out 609. 



National legislative committee 34 ; Newspaper re- 

 ports unreliable concerning honey 609 ; Nuclei, baby, 

 for queen-rearing 326; Nuclei, baby, vs. three-frame 

 nuclei 326; Nuclei by the carload 325. 



Ochsner, death of 95 ; Ohio honey statistics 502 ; 

 Ohio State Beekeepers' Convention ' 123, 751, 787; 

 Oranges and bees 150; Orchard, increasing demand 

 for bees in 149; Ordinance against bees 96; Over- 

 lay for Gleanings halftones 359. 



Parcels post 95, 645; Pellett inspector for Iowa 

 429; Pennsylvania biilletin on bees 574; Pettit, S. 

 T., death of 220 ; Philliijs on Colorado beekeeping 

 429 ; Pollinated blossoms more resistant to frost 

 291; Pollination by bees worth hundred million dol- 

 lars 150; Pollination, how it helps out the fruit 

 crop 292; Postotifice ruling, a loophole in 326; 

 Postoffice ruling concerning queens 292, 466; Poul- 

 try-raiser and beekeeper 96; Pound joackages of bees 

 503, 572, 573, 615; Pound packages of bees to cure 

 spring dwindling 787; Prices .just before Christmas 

 34; Prices on honey for 1912 538. 



Queen bees, a new postal ruling concerning 292 ; 

 Queen-breeders, have they been defying the laws? 

 466 ; Queen-breeders who will boil the honey used in 

 queen-cage candy 222 ; Queen-rearing and baby 

 nuclei 326; Queens, failing 2; Queens' work and 

 egg-laying 646. 



Retrospect for 1912 789 ; Ripening honey arti- 

 ficially 611; Robber-cages 360; Russian representa- 

 tive visits Medina 574. 



Sealed covers vs. absorbents 125 ; Second carload 

 of bees from Florida 361; Shipping Ijees in three and 

 five pound packages 752; Shipping bees without 

 comb 573, 645 ; Shipping car-lots without combs 

 502; Shipping cases with no glass 430; Shipping 

 honey, some instructions on 65, 66 ; Sladen, F. W. 

 L., assistant to the Dominion Entomologist 537 ; 

 Smelter gas and how it kills bees 325 ; Specific grav- 

 ity of honey 716; Special numbers for Gle.\ning.s 

 538; Spraying, how it kills bees 326; Spraying in 

 bloom, how it destroyed $2000 worth of bees 537; 

 Spraying in bloom, pulilic sentiment against 151; 

 Spraying in bloom, Wesley Foster on 537; Spraying 

 not injurious to bees 359; Spraying, two poisons for 

 537; Spring dwindling 220; Spring dwindling cured 

 by bees in pound packages 787 ; Spring work in the 

 apiary 220; Square cans, hot, to clean 429; Statis- 

 tics on bees and honey 67, 68 ; Stingless bees, so- 

 called 645, 715; Stores, amount needed for winter- 

 ing 680 : Stores for winter, importance of 679 ; 

 Subscribers in the olden days of Gleanings 501 ; 

 Sunday papers, and comb-honey canards 502 ; Su- 

 pers, why bees don't go up into 2 ; Surface's bulle- 

 tin on bees 574; Swarming, how to control as prac- 

 ticed by DeMuth 575 ; Swarming problem 3 ; Sweet- 

 clover bulletin by the government 260; Sweet-clover 

 bulletin not for free distribution 359; Sweet-clover 

 pamphlet by the Bokhara Seed Company 185; Syr- 

 up, amount of water ta sugar 681. 



Taylor, R. L., death of 537; Tenement hives es- 

 pecially adpated for cold climate 539; Tenement 

 hives for outdoor wintering 539; Temperature in- 

 side of hives 66 ; Tennessee foul-brood law 501 ; 

 Texas as a honey State 467 ; Texas bulletin on bees 

 free 465 ; Texas magazine on the honey business 467 ; 

 Tires for automobiles 188; Tobacco as a bee-plant 

 149; 'Tobaco-plant, pollination of 149; Transmission 

 in automobiles 188; Trouble in California 325; 

 Trucks, automobile 188. 



United States census bureau figures 95 ; United 

 States census of 1910 67, 68; United States honey 

 statistics 259 ; Uvalde County the greatest in Texas 

 for honey 467. 



Virgin stimulated to laying by eggs or larvte 788. 

 Water, amount in honey 716; Weather bureau 

 valuable to beekeepers 123 ; Wiley, Dr., resigns 185 ; 

 Wilson, Secretary 34; Windbreaks for wintering, 

 importance of 124; Winter and spring losses very 

 severe 261; Wintering at Medina 124; Wintering 

 colonies that are too weak 681; Wintering, how 

 bees are 95; Wintering in a barn 680; Wintering 

 in clamps 33 ; Wintering in closed room 3 ; Winter- 

 ing indoors and out 2; Wintering in tenement hives 

 539; Wintering, questions on 680; Wintering, re- 

 ports on 149, 186; Winter losses affecting the fruit 

 crop 292 ; Winter losses not so severe in extreme 

 north 124 ; Winter losses over the country very se- 

 vere 220, 393; Winter severely cold 33; Winter 

 report 149, 186; Wiring kink 501. 



A. I. ROOT'S DEPARTMENT 



Accidents on Sunday 459, 678 ; Alcoholic degen- 

 eracy 750; Alfalfa, sweet clover prepared the ground 

 for 218; Alfalfa, transplanting and cultivating 568 ; 

 Anti-Saloon League and Prohibition Party 603; 

 Apicultural schools in Russia 183 ; Apple, Early Joe 

 in New Zealand 644; Apple, Early Joe, where sold 

 290; Apples and Department of Agriculture 821; 

 Apples are ripe 533; Apples, value of 781; Artesian 

 wells in Florida 184 ; Auto after a year's use 62 ; 

 Automobiles and divorces 820; Aviation, why so 

 many lives lost 820. 



Baptist vice commission 745 ; Basswood trees for 

 honey 607; Beef scrap for laying hens 531; Bee- 

 keeper in trouble 671; Beer money 494; Beer-wag- 

 ons or electric cars 678 : Bees eaten by chickens 

 608 ; Bee smokers, Corey on 527 ; Bible class of 

 fifty-two ladies 529 ; Blackberry, Ewing 62 ; Bleach- 

 ing celery with stiff pajjer 747; Boys and lieer busi- 

 ness 572; Boys, what is government doing for? 

 605; Brewery "contributes 100,000 to fight prohibi- 

 tion 786; Bribery and graft 565; Buckwheat in 

 Florida sand 289; Bulletins on disease prevention 

 457: Butter made from chicken fat 147. 



Candy, whisky and brandy in 786; Celery bleach- 

 ed with stiff paper 747 ; Chafin's address 709 ; 

 Chapman's evangelistic work 353 ; Character building 

 493 ; Charity in business 351 ; Chicken sandwiches 



257; Chickens as scavengers 121; Chickens, doc- 

 toring 785: Chickens, drip water for 571; Chickens 

 eat'ng bees 608 ; Chickens in Florida in summer 

 355; Chickens in Florida, truth about 60; Chick- 

 ens, language of 322 ; Chickens on one-fourth cent 

 Iter day per head 748; Chickens that did not need 

 green food 32: Chicken thieves 182; Chicken-vard, 

 Stoddard's converging 423. 532, 608, 748 ; Chieken- 

 vards. Moral Degenerates in 608 ; Chronic poisoning 

 "with alcohol and tobacco 457; Chufas 31, 388, 498; 

 Churches and the liquor traffic 462 ; Cigarettes, cre- 

 ating demand for in China 677 ; Clabber as food 

 495; Colorado desert, temperance fight in 64; Con- 

 vergent poultry-yard 423, 532, 608, 748; Corey, John 

 G. 527; Corning egg-farm 122; Criminals, delayed 

 sentence of 119; Criticism, poison of 287. 



Dance halls of Cleveland 746; Dandelions 31; 

 Dandelions as green food 321 ; Department of Agri- 

 culture on prevention of disease 457; Difficulties, 

 thanking God for 217; Divorced beekeeper 671; 

 Divorces, causes of 287; Dog story 91; Drug habit 

 93; Drug habit among children 534; Drunken en- 

 gineer 535, 572 ; Drunken murderer, shall he be 

 put to death? 459; Drunkenness causes disaster 

 317; Duck-house and brooder 321; Duck lays two 

 eggs in one day 320, 355 ; Ducklings, why they die 

 571 ; Ducks, Indian Runner and Pekin 749; Ducks, 



