FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



INDEX 



Abnormal Behavior 183 



Adam Grimm, Italians from.. 29 



Age of Larvae for Queens. . . . 246 



A. I. Root. Visit to 23 



American Bee Journal Found 2 2 



Assistant Bee-keeper 56 



Average Yield Depending on 



Numbers 35 



Bad Year 37 



Baits. Brood-combs as 33 



Bait-sections 154 



Balling Queen 78 



Bee-brushes 75 



Bee-Dress, Woman's 233 



Bee-gloves 230 



Bee .iournals, Reading 325 



Bee-journals, "Writing for.... 326 



Bee-keeping Sole Business... 33 



Bee-palace 16 



Bees Doing Work Most Xeeded 179 



Bees, First 15 



Bees, Italians 327 



Bees Xot Preferrins: Too Old 



Larvae 239 



Bees Off Combs, Pounding... 74 



Bees Off Combs, Shaking. ... 74 



Bee-space 137 



Bee-strainer 66 



Bee-veil 229 



Beginner Improving Stock... 262 

 Best Bees, Keeping in Home 



Apiary 43 



Best Queen, Keeping in Nu- 

 cleus 242 



Bottom-board 47 



Boyhood Days 9 



Breeding-combs. Trimming . . 244 



Breeding-comb. Placing 246 



Breeding from Best 234, 235 



Bringing Bees Home in Fall. . 203 



Brood as a Stimulant 116 



Brood, Disposal of Extra.... 136 



Brood for Cells, Starting.... :M2 



Brood, Giving to Stronger... 112 



Brood, Giving to Weaker. . . 113 



Brood in Sections 141 



Brood, Taking Away All.... 176 

 Brood. Tarking Two Frames 



Weekly 175 



Brood to Top-bar 91 



B'u-r-combs 136 



Cages, One-Cent 164 



Caging Cells. Advantages of. . 256 



Carrying in Bees 305 



Cellar, Airing 42 



Cellar, Cooling and Airine. . . . 310 



Cellar, Furnace in 314 



Cellar, Keeping Open 310 



Cellar, Letting Light in 311 



Cellar, Preparing the 305 



Cellar, Ta'kino- Bees Out of . . 41 



Cellar, Time to Put Bees in.. 304 



Cellar, Too Warm 309 



Cellar, Ventilation of.... 45, 309 



Cellar, Warming 307 



Cell-building, Preparing Bees 



for 244 



Changing from Double to Sin- 

 gle Hives 303 



Changin<r from Single to Dou- 

 ble Hives 301 



Chicago, Three Years in 28 



Cincinnati, Winter in 27 



Cleaning Hives 59 



Cleaning Out Dead Bees 313 



Cleaning Supers and T Tins. . 141 



Cleats for Hive 46 



Clipping, Advantage of 68 



Clipxiine, Implement for 62 



Clover, Giant White 122 



Clover Harvest, Close of 199 



Clover, Sweet 121 



Clover, White, L^ncertain. . . . 127 



College Life 13 



Colonies to Feed, Selecting... 293 

 Comb Foundation, Attempt at 22 

 Combs, Getting Built to Bot- 

 tom-bars 88 



Combs. Mending 80 



Consumption of Stores 103 



Cork Chips for Watering... 109 



Countrv Life 30 



Covers* 93 



Covers with Dead-air Space.. 94 



Covers. Zinc 94 



Crediting Colonies 206 



Cross Colonies 232 



Digression 56 



Division-boards 110 



Division of Labor 150 



Doolittle's Plan for Swarms. . 166 



Doolittle's Plan, Varying.... 167 



Doolittle's Plan of Shaking. . 74 



Double Hives. Ad'>">ntases of 300 



Double Hives for Winter 298 



