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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Bee. 31. 



Judging honey 152 



J uniper-wood hives 599 



Keep cool with bees 280 



Keeping bee-eggs and royal jelly 442, 555 



Keeping bees in a house in a city 526 



Keeping bees in a shed 310 



Keeping bees on shares 643 



Keeping bees pure 119 



Keeping combs over winter 729 



Keeping down increase 150, 375 



Kegs for honey 37 



Killing a colony of bees 550 



Killing off drones 466 



Kind of hive to use 762 



'Knows" and "don't knows" 77 



Lady-bird beetles as related to bee-culture 627 



Langstroth memorial 9, 26, 104, 200 



Largest fields of honey 40,43, 124, 168, 171, 202 



Late drone-rearing 713 



Late-reared bees tor strong colonies for winter- 

 ing 554 



Late-reared queens 617 



Lawsof breeding— application to beea 759 



Laying of a queen 39 



Laying workers 85. 122, 499 



Leather-colored bees 119, 204 



Leaving the hive 39it 



Leaving the surplus arrangement on in winter. . 650 



Liquefying honey 55, 131 



Locality and the bees 572 



Locating apiaries 82. 100, 257, 421 



Longevity of bees and queens ...91, 138, 196,274. 296 



Long tongue— advantage of 344 



Losing queens by doubling 130 



Loss of queens 660 



Lotus 619 



Low prices of honey 295. 503 



Lysoland foul brood 408,506, 582 



MacLean's (Chancellor) address 757 



Magic section press 207 



Making a feed syrup for bets 122 



Making a swarm stay 506 



Making bees drunk 84 



Mailing queens 376,499,555. 779 



Management for best results 85, 114, 195, 822 



Managing swarms 117 



Manipulating frames 15 



Manufactured honey— hardly 826 



Maple svrup for feeding 791 



Marketing honey. . .20, 24, 29. 39. 45, 55. 56, 76, 82, 

 93, 97, 107. 120, 121. 130, 132. 133, 136, 141, IHO, 

 181,187,191,200, 213. 230, 236,295, 308, 309, 

 311,316,337,391,419, 440, 489, 531, .548, 563, 

 568.574.595,620.648, 659, 661, 693. 732, 758,774 



Marking hive-entrances 186 



Mating of queens 232, 345 



McCartney section press and foundation fast- 

 ener 646 



Mesqu 1 te 281 



Mice destroying colonies ... 149 



Midbar in Langstroth frames 5(h) 



Milk and honey 424 



Milkweed pollen-masses .359,629, 635 



Miller's (Dr.) address to students 725 



Minnesota fair and exhibit 537 



Mint 66H 



Mixed-up colony 454 



Model home 556 



Moonlight bees 605 



Moore's (Gov. i address 706 



Motherwort 390 



Moth- worms and moths 375, 606,643, 778 



Mountain laurel honey 92,220, 245 



Moving bee8..20, 53, 85, 106. 124.133, 148.150. 158, 265 



Moving eggs 139, 140 



Mustard honey 506 



Nailing llotfman frames 298 



Narrow sections and slotted separators 614 



National bee-keepers' exchange 690 



National bee-keepers' organization 249 



National Bee-Keepers' Union report for 1895.... 



59, no 788 



Natural stores 345 



Natural vs. artitlcial swarming 614 



Nebraska irrigation fair 60() 



Nectar and its secretion 115, 484, 526 



Nehoiden house-apiary 232 



New bee-papers 2,5, 604 



New constitutions 612 



New or old comb for section honey 827 



New union and honey exchange 601 



Non-swarming bees 29, 39, 49, 66,82, 107. 261, 486 



Non-swarming in large hives 501 



North Carolina experiment station 280 



Notes from Virgil 533, 546, 565 



Not storing surplus honey 486 



Nucleus-box method of making nuclei 167 



Nucleus— story of 812 



Numbering hives 91,92,93, 130. 137, 140, 2.59 



Number of bees as a queen's escort 6.'i7 



Numberof bees inaquart 27h 



Number of brood-frames during the harvest.... 134 



Number of colonies to begin with 132 



Number of eggs in aqueen-bee 349 



Number of pounds gathered in a day 458 



Number of seeds to the pound 312 



Number of supers to the colony 185 



Observations and reflections 546 



Observing bee-hive as an educator 562 



OJd-size frame 166 



Odor of honey cans and kegs 598, 731 



Oil-can frauds 121, 295 



Old combs 278 



Old elm 174 



Old sections filled with comb 117 



Old-time honey seasons— will they return? 279 



*' Old woman's bustle " plant 780 



One-frame nucleus 150 



Only a cold 191 



Open letter to Dr. Miller 255 



Orange-bloom 290 



Our darling baby Hugh (.poem) 749 



Out-apiaries 116, 714 



Out vs. indoor wintering 130 



Packages for honey 1S4, 699 



Packages for retailing comb honey 469 



Packing bees 7 



Painting hives 114, 302, 327, 386 



Parable for those who need it 6io 



Paradise for the honey-bee .. 770 



Partly-filled sections 806 



Partridge-pea 478, 618 



Past and future of bee-keeping; 722 



Past and present of bee-keeping 163, 376 



Pattern slats 87 



Peppermint 227 



Pepper-tree honey 569 



Phenomenal colony of bees 261 



Pickled brood, or white fungus 677, 584. 612 



Placing hives 46,92, 566 



Planning for next season 24 



Planting for honey 69,371, 741 



Plant trees 249 



Plums frosted 174 



Poisunous honey.. 146,215,239,245.262,372,441, 



4H5, 466, 477, 482. 5( 16, 726, 695, 770 772 



Pollen ferment in cells 73 



Pollenized brood-combs— cleansing 678 



Position of apiculture 329 



Position of supers 5O6 



Postal abuses 840 



Poultry with bees I70, 311 



Preparation of bees for winter 455, 678 



Preparation of honey for the market 536 



Prevention of bee-diarrhea 294 



Prevention of increase and swarming 103, 234 



Price ofhoney 305 



Production ol honey 308 



Prolific colony of bees 451, 596 



Propolis poisoning hands 778 



Prospect for future seasons 804 



Purchasing bee-supplies 231 



Pure-blooded bees 629 



Pure honey bill 164, 472 



Purity vs. good workers in hees 773 



Putting bees out early 317 



Putting bees out of cellars 103, 105 



Putting in foundation 617 



Putting on a super 86 



Putting on sections 340 



Putting swarms back 483 



Queen-bee experience 380 



Oueen business 403, 408 



Queen-cells 85, 90, 98, 278 



Queen-cells for swarming and for superseding.. 566 



Queen-clipping implement 130, 195. 215 



Queen disappearing 598 



Queen-excluders 215 



Queen excluding vs. plain honey-boards 614 



Queen fertilization in confinement 773 



Queen less colony 470, 582 



Queen-rearing 229. 259, 375, 390, 455, 530, 566, 



5'Jfi, 637. 650, 667, 743. 773 805 



Queen's arrival 713 



Queens carrying foul brood 54 



Queen that left hive in winter out-doors 54 



Queen-traps 50. 353 



Queen— unusual actions 150 



Quite a spell ipoem) 491, 524 



Quoting honey too high 121 



Rats 202.255, 268 



Rattlesnake root 668 



Reading .... 793 



Rearing drones with no drone-comb 803 



Removing honey 678 



Kenderirg beeswax 517 



Requisites for success in bee-keeping 356 



Resolutions of endorsement 840 



Hietsche foundation press , 518 



Rival bee-papers and tbeir policy 728 



Robber bees and robbing. 105.233.330.4 9,421,499, 518 

 Kyetiourfor feeding 246, 791 



Sacaline 407 



Saving bees from brimstoning 5u6 



Sawdust and shavings in honey 712 



Sawdust packing in tlie spring 135 



Sealed covers or upward" ventilation 361 



Secor's (Bugene) response to addresses of wel- 

 come 707 



Section comh foundation 132, 151 



Section folding and foundation fastening in one 



machine 410 



Sections 270, 2!»4. 820 



Section starters 85, 778 



Self-hiving arrangements 50 



Separators 84, 135, 167, 199,234,270,355,714, 



720.746,778 820 



Several eggs in a cell 54 



Shafle for hives 122. 775 



Shade to prevent swarming 786 



Shady places for bees 454 



Shipping-cases 648 



Shipping comb honey 165 



Shipping foundation in winter 59H 



Shipping honey 118, 135,209, .578, 696 



Short Ol stores 105 



Showing bees and honey at fairs 550 



Silver wattle trees 610 



Single or double brood-chamber for 12 frames . . 143 



Smartweed 149 



Smoker fuel 38.293, 390 



Smoking fact 237 



Sow thistle 523 



Spacing frames 335,419,510,581, 713 



Specialty vs. mixed bee-keeping i, 438 



Sporting bees 34, 293 



Sports of character in bees 274 



Spraying fruit blossoms 214, 389, 402 



Spring dwindling 198 



Spring work in the apiary 210, 229, 2.S9 



Square or oblong sections of honey 813 



Starters in wired frames 247 



Starters vs. full sheets in sections 459 



Starting in bee-keeping .53, 199.259,283,644,709, 806 



Starved colony 233 



Starving with plenty of honey 131 



State appropriations for bee-keeping 360, 366 



Stimulative feeding in spring 778 



Stingless queens 650 



Stores for winter 90 



Siraight combs from starters in wired frames .. 745 



Straight worker-comb without foundation 307 



Stray queen 73 



Stray straws from Gleanings 6, 170,442, 505, 638 



Strong colonies 170 



Sugar candy for feeding 106 



Sugar vs. iioney 600 



Superseding queens 39,571,630,637, 775 



Supers for sections 219, 270 



Supers on all winter , 729 



Supply-dealer and honey-producer 692 



Surplus arrangements— the best Ill 



Surplus honey room above brood-chamber 709 



Sutherland's (Henry) apiary 56 



Swan's ( A. W.) apiary 137 



Swapping supers vs. bait sections 798 



Swarming... 23, 39, 103, 1()6, 117, 145. 182,183.210, 

 225, 228, 234, 246, 249. 277, 306. 309, 369, 375, 

 432. 440, 466, 5(Xt. 519, 541, 551, 556, 588, 611, 



614,650,651,654,662. 683, 694, 772 778 



Swarming bees ahead 45 



Swarming habit— breeding it out 29,66, 110, 306 



Swarming out 73 



Swarming without a queen , 82 



Swarms leaving 471, 565 



Swarms settling on an evergreen-tree 37 



Sweet clover. . .3. 7. 17, 24, 46, 62, 65, 67, 70. 83, 84. 

 91.109, 119. 124. 134 141, 151', 151, 166, 173, 198, 

 199.203,207,215,227, 228. 242, 247, 259, 30<.i, 

 3-23,328,331,396.419, 435. 459, 470, 484, 488, 

 492.534,568,632,644, 634. 685, 710, 746, 74tf, 



754.793,803 835 



Sweet clover honey H)4 



Syrup for feeding 183, 588 



Taking off section honey 589 



Tare on honey-packages 392 



Taxing bees 234 



Temperature of bee-celtars 198 



Terrill Bros 648 



Theory in apiculture 66 



Thieves in the apiary 29, 124 



Thrown-out brood 185 



Thumb-screws in place of wedges 614 



Timothy chaff for packing 730 



Tinker hive and management 252 



Tobacco poison 764 



Top-bars— non-burr-combd 8& 



Toronto apiarian exibit 681 



Transferring bees..2 1. 139, 166, 186, 198,246,247, 



266.294.323,343,356.613 822 



T supers 3.87, 130 



Tucker's (J. B.) apiary 8 



Two colonies in one hive 746 



Two-frame nuclei 150 



Two grubs in a queen-cell 391 



Two queens in one hive. 19,67. 76, J50 



Two starters in one section 686 



Two swarms together 630 



Unbusinesslike methods 696 



tJnder-consumption not over-production of 



honey 338. 370 



Unfinished sections. 83. 116. I38. 199,678. 729, 783, 806 



United States bee-association 290 



United States Bee- Keepers' Union 833. 840 



Unitiugcolonies.74,15i).239, 247, 621,743, 746,747, 775 



Uniting to spot a good queen 71 



Unpainted and painted hives 243 



Unqueening and requeening 18. 75,458, 616, 736 



Unsealed stores for winter 730 



Upward ventilation not needed 55 



Useof foundation 185, 196 



Using foundation 55 



253 

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 595 

 39 

 84 

 53 

 52 

 545 

 513 



Vaccination 



Ventilation of hives in winter 



Vicious bees 486, 



Virgin queens 



Virtues of honey 



Visit among Utah bee-keepers 



Vif*it to an out-apiary 



Visit to Mr. Everett's apiary 



Visit to Mrs. Stow's apiary 



Water horehound 



Water hyacinth for bees 



Watering bees 483, 



Water soaking wax 



Wax extractors 243, 



Weak colonies 71. 



" Weed " procpss foundation 55, 



Weight of bees and bee-loads 



Weight of colonies for winter : 



Weight of natural swarms 487, .551, 



What ails the bees? 326, 



What caused the queen's death ? 



What the bees worked on 



Wheadon & Co 681,697.760. 



Where bees tend most to store honey 



Where did the queen come from? 



Where did the eggs come from ? .534, 



White clover 714, 



Will ten ine undressed-lumber shed 



Why do I keep bees ? , 



Wide frames and sections 



Width of one-pound sections 



Wild bees 



Wild bees of Nebraska 



Wild parsnips 



Willow-herb or flre-weed 478,618, 



Windbrpaks 



Winter food and packing 



Winter honev production 



Winteringbee-»..3,35. 63. 71,84, 116.130, 149, 165. 



173, 191,203.252.258, 275, 316, 331, 339, 341, 

 455. 534. 566. .i94, 714 



Wintering on Langstroth frames on end 



Wintering queens 



Winter stores 7,574,579. 



Wiring frames 



Wiring sections 



Women and conventions 194, 



Women at bee-conventions 



Wood sage 



Wood veneer or base foundation 167, 



Working only in the morning 



Work of bees. 728, 



618 

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 491 

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 676 

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 663 

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90 

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817 

 453 



Yellow jackets 



Yielding honey 



Young bees dying in the spring.. 



Young queens breed late 



Young's (J. W.) apiary 



85 

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 523 

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 769 



, 827 

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