THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



829 



IjiiTiKstroth bee-spacea 10, 70 



LanKstroth frame 44 



Langatroth hivea 4i! 



Ijartie honey-yields 725 



LarRe wasps 508 



Law uKuinBt koeping: beea 346.;iH0,4«7 

 Laying capacity of a pood queen a08 

 Lengtlienlnp: the swarming im- 



pulsii 820 



Jjcasoii in ap'iculturG 456 



Little "'busy beea" 297 



Locating an apiary llti 



Locust honey 826 



Losing bees very fast 645 



Losing queens by death 580 



Making' honey 475 



Management of an apiary 68, 101, 



103. 40.-.. 4'.)l.tJ01, 682.715 761 



Marketing honey 9,21.73,151,152, 

 195, 231. 259, 331, 375, 502, 506, 

 531,600,651,731, 755,761,776, 



779 793 



Mass convention 124 



Mental life of the bee 440 



Metal rabbets and corners 228 



Methods and theories 76 



Migratory bee-keeping 643 



Milk and honey 746 



Misrepresentations 339, 435,664 



Mistakes about bee-keeping. 438.554 



Moldy brood-combs 372 



Moving bees 104. 202, 292,332,345, 



396,443.702 788 



Names that mislead 99 



National bee-keepers' union 371, 

 372, 377. 378, 3H0. 3S7, 388, 394, 

 395,404.411. 435,4+4.451.454, 

 457, 467. 475. 476, 4SS. 486. 502, 

 508, 515, 523, 524. 533, 555, 569, 

 572.683 



Necrology of bee-keepers 



New and old year 



New phenomenon 



New Year's greeting 



Northern Michigan honey 



Norwegian bee-book 



Not the way to argue 



Not working for fun 



Nuclei— making of 277, 



Number of colonies 76, 



Nursery and queen-cage..., 



Observations upon drones 614 



Odors and sweets 247 



Old and new bee-hivea 260 



Old and younti bees 24S 



Old beea for winter 684 



Orange and magnolia honey 316 



Over-production 72, 169,231,261 



Over-stocking a locality 330 



Packing bees... 323, 380,539,731,758 



Paper boxes for honey 531, 645 



Passage-ways and bee-apaces..,. 199 



Paste for honey-labels, etc 483 



Peaceful habits of the bee 453 



Pea-flour 43 



Pecten or corab of the bee 667 



Petrified hnney 755 



Phenol and foul brood..... 19 



Planting for honey 218,660,692 



Plant-lice 141 



Poisoning bees 491. 540 



Poisonous honey 455, 588, 599,710,743 



PA8TURAGB FOH BEES— 153, 339, 



373.794 825 



Acacia 339 



Alfalfa 328, 691 



Alalke clover 51,443 



Basswood 492 



Blue- vervain 7:^2 



Buckwheat 443, 467 



Button-ball 492, 523, 



California poppy 61 1 



Cone fiower 540 



Dodder 24 



Hercules' club 668 



Horse -miut 76 



Lucerne 51 



Maryland sensitive-plant... 682 



Mignonette 483 



Phacelia 595 



Pleurlay-root 42 



Poison oak 534 



Red clover 51 



Smart-weed 619 



Spider-plant 474 



Sweet clover 459,472,491 



Trefoil 51 



Viper's-bugloss 27 



Virginia creeper 474 



White clover 51,428,499 



Whitewood 492 



"Wild gooseberries and cur- 

 rant 392 



Pollen 53. 58, 60, 88, 187, 202, 519 



Pollen and larval beea 134,232,299, 357 

 Pollen and newly-hatched bees.. 136 



Pollen or nmisture? 504 



Pollen theory .^)5, 9(), 16m. 170, 249, 



28n, 3<.!2. 470. 503 777 



Position of the apiary and bloom 677 



Poultry and bees 499. 554, 760 



Preparing bees for winter... 294, 



427, .571. 579. 633, 644 727 



Pres. L. C Root's annual address 791 

 Prevention of honey-granulation 293 



Prevention of robbing 276,332 



Production of comb honey.. 184, 



196,276, 3.59.647 792 



Production of honey 458 



Putting bees in cellars 739, 780 



Putting on sections 388 



Queen-bee from Mt. Lebanon 428 



Queen-cells 540 



Queen-excluders 156, 262 



Queen going to another hive 492 



Queenless colonies. 212,291,440,726 



Queen-Hurseries 395,419 



Queens beginning to lay 724 



Queen whose eggs do not hatch.. 42(i 



Question-box 825 



Quite a haul 4U3 



Races of bees 697, 810 



Railroad classification and rates. 362 



Rat-proof honey-house 340,356 



Rattle-snakes and honey 691 



Rearing queens 452.468.618,677 



Rearing young beea for winter... 652 



Registering colonies 22,69 



Regularity 539 



Relation of bees to plants... 371,374 

 Removing pollen from combs 340.380 

 Rendering conventions profitable 293 



Replacing queens 492,612, 661 



Reputation for good honey 645 



Reversible supers 167 



Reports of the season 11, 12, 



27, 28, 29, 42. 43, 44. 60. 76, 

 90.91,92,107, 108, 119, 124, 

 156. 169, 171, 172, 184, 188, 

 203.204,215. 219. 22", 221. 

 236, 251, 252. 267, 268, l'Ml', 

 284,300,315. 316. ;(:(L'. :U7. 

 360, 364, 378, 380, Hm:., :v.\r., 

 411,412.428. 443. 444. 4.''>4, 

 460,470,475, 476. 4lH , 4H2. 

 508, 518, 523, 524, ,".:i:t, r>:i;i, 



555,565,572, 588, 604, (i 14, 

 620, 634, 635, 636, 646, 652, 

 668,684.699, 70<J, 716, 762, 

 779, 780, 796. 826 , 



21, 

 89, 

 133, 

 202, 

 235. 

 2s;i, 

 ;i IM, 



.( '7, 

 . K I, 



667, 

 763, 



Reversible frames. . 8, 57, 88, 



165, 203,204,250, 252 



Reversing combs 



Review of current literature 



Ridicule Is not argument 



Rights and patents 



Ripening honey 



Robber bees 91.443.507.508, 

 Rosea among the thorns 



102, 

 278, 



632, 



539 

 808 

 693 

 279 

 247 

 164 

 725 

 157 



Sale of bees in Arkansas 307 



Satisfaction guaranteed 3 



Seasonable hints.... 379,394,664,707 



Second-swurms 540,651 



Sense of direction in bees. etc... 643 



Secretion of wax 652 756 



Sections and section-cases 199 



Sections for comb honey 150, 250 



Sections parallel with frames 84 



Sections partly filled with comb.. 84 



Sections to hold one-pound 756 



Sections without separators 697 



Shade for hives 228, 308, 396, 515, 760 

 Sheep and bees 379, 410, 459, 475, 



476 ;. . .553 



Sheep and pad-flies 443,523 



Sheep-bees lawsuit. 389. 405, 425, 



441.467,491, 659, 691,699,713,739 



Shipping bees 316,698 



Shipping-cases 172, 250 



Shipping honey 699 



Side-storing vs. top-storing . 697 



"Singing" queen 548 



Size of brood-frames 420 



Size of entrance in winter 772 



Sizeof bives.etc 780 



Small hives I's. large hives.., 631, 



662 693, 697,709,714,728,762,774 



Some queries 539 



Sour honey, larval bees, etc 357 



Space below frames 668 



Speak a word 507 



Spiders and empty combs... 469 



Spraying fruit trees 100 



Spring work 291 



Starters in brood-frames 357 



Starration and diarrhea 171,229 



Statistics of honey crop. 403, 680, 810 



Stimulating colonies * 692 



Storing empty comba 235, 340, 356,469 



Storing honey 70.139,472,521 



Strange notions of bees 524 



straw bee-hives 762 



Strength of insects 393 



Sub-earth ventilation 628 



Sugar syrup 299, 425.426 



Superseding queens 452,501 



Swarming 149.292, 308, 329, 362, 

 427, 439. 507, 585, 599, 612, 666, 

 716 •743 



Supervision of labor 100 



Susie's swarm of bees 372 



Syrian beow 313, 488, 568, 635 



Syrian or Holy Land bee6? 523 



Syrio-Albino bees 539 



Sy^^te^latic work in the apiary... 451 



Tariff on honey 35 



Teaching apiculture In schools... 371 

 Temperature of bees 84, 181, 326, 



^'>^7,712 758 



ThebceatitH best 422 



Throwing dirt 387 



Tiering up hives In the cellar. ... 644 



Tin re.sts for frames 156 



Tin roofs for hivea 747 



To bees in winter quarters 709 



Top ventilation 777 



To Wisconsin bee-keepers 76 



Transferring bees.. 228,251,330, 



■MH. 364. 372. 38(1, 3:t3. 42 ). 443, 584 



Transverse passages in hivea 280 



Two queena in one hive 708 



Uneasy bees 4. i9 



Uniting colonies 611,612 



Using combs containing pollen.. 596 

 Using empty comba 388,472 



Value of queens, etc 664 



Variations in honey seasons 429 



Varieties of bees 132,572 



Vegetable cellars for beea 68 



Ventilation 2:.2. 299,326.712.774 



Virgin queens and drone-eggs 292 



Virgin queens and laying workers 740 



Visits of insects to flowers 377 



Visits to apiarists. . . 219, 426, 537, 



550,666 667 



Wax-ex tractors 396 



Waxing kega and barrels.... 516,583 



Weather 371,730 



Whataila the beea? 140, 196,298,644 



What bees do in winter 763 



Wh;<t caused the trouble? 140 



What killed the bees? 332 



What the times demand 119 



Where bees first deposit honey.. 100 

 Whifh way to face hives ? 26, 54, 



139.250 295 



Wide frames and sections ? 284 



Wide frames or cases? 276 



Wild bees in Oregon .- 323 



Willow bark-hce 604 



Wind-breaks for apiaries.... 298, 



471, .503, 5.52,660,691 761 



Wintering bees. ..9. 24, 42. 55. 102, 

 104. 105, 124, 13.5, 167, 170, 171, 

 198,219,231, 233.234.248,251, 

 264. 265, 275, 284, 295, 307. 316, 

 343,348.391, 392, 39P, 406, 409, 

 424,442,533, 567,601,602.629, 

 634. 650, 663, 664. 667, 682, 695. 

 699. 725, 726, 745. 757, 809. 812, 826 

 Wintering problem ... .5. 213, 314, 408 



Wintering queens in nuclei 724 



Winter repository for bees S32 



Wired frames 296 



Woman's view of bee-keeping.... 778 



Worker larvae 123 



Working against nature 25, 101 



Would-be critic 148 



Would-be discoverer 39 



Young bees aa commoners 697 



INDEX TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Abbott, E. T. 60n. 632, 



Abbott, L. F., 422, 



Acberman, H, U. 57,250, 

 281. 



Addenbrooke, W., 796. 



AdditioD, F. O., 504. 



Ablers. P. J., 523. 



Aikin, R. C, 299, 443. 



A Lanarkshire bee- 

 keeper, 56H. 



ATdrich, A. T.. 065. 



Allen, Grant, R7. 



Allen. Dr. N. P., 268. 



Allen, RanBom. 204. 411. 



Alley, Henry. 27, 4a, 105, 



108, 21.=i, 219, 364, 444, 

 505, 520, .566. 588, 619. 



Alvea, Q. M.. 102. 



Amiel. Moucb, 507. 



Anderson, T. M.,428. 



Anderson, Wm., 188,235, 

 soil, 380, 411, 524. 



Andfe, .1. H., 42,167, 171, 

 204, 220, 283, 295, 330, 

 372, 395, 428, 440,472, 

 491,507, 533, 651, 663, 

 684. 



Apiarist. 540. 



Ash by. G. W., 395, 396, 

 443, 492. 



Aspinwall, Jno., 755. 



Austin, H. C, 211. 



Bacon, G., 7.32. 

 Bailey. M., 316. 

 Bair, W. 8., 252. 



Baker. Dr. J. R., 42. 



Balch.W. H., 634, 659. 

 Baldwin, B. T., 395, 443, 



365. 

 Baldwin, P., 712. 

 Bale. J. C, 172, 284. 

 Ball, Miss J. M., 411. 

 Ball. J. Raymond. 43, 310. 

 Ballentine, Rev. W-, 182. 

 Balmer, Jno. A., 474,476. 

 Barber. Ira, 235, 316, 



422, 809. 

 Barnes. Wm. M., 454. 

 Barrows, O. B., 124, 539, 



780. 



Bates, Henry, 54. 

 Baxter, Mrs. E. J., 380. 



Bayard, J. W., 91, 233, 



311,391. 

 BayJes, I. N., 156, 299. 

 Beath, Jos., 204. 

 Bechly, Fred, 283, 635. 

 Bedford, Rev. R. C, 284. 

 Beech. G. A., 171. 

 B. F. W., 652. 

 Behrens, W. J., 677. 

 Beitel, C. G., 537, 617. 

 Benedict. F. C, 359. 

 Bennett, A. D. '89,201,204. 

 Benton, F.. 151, 259, 551. 

 Berry, M, H., 23.=>. 

 Besse, Dr. H.. 459. 

 BigKers. C. T., 348. 

 Billing, Peter. 268, 635. 

 Bingham, T. F., 539,747. 



Bishop, Geo. M.,555. 

 Bitzer. Wm 459. 

 Blake, Prof. O. C.,73n. 

 Bledsoe. O. P.. 326, 618. 

 Bliss, W.W., 771. 

 Boardman, H. B., 235, 



345,491. 

 Bi^hn, Gnstav, 611. 

 BollinK, W., 107. 

 Boylston. S. C 202, 362. 

 Bradish. Chas. W., 300. 

 Bray, Moses, 491. 

 Bridgman, C. P., 727. 

 Brillhart. S. B.,76. 

 Brothers, Dan., 158. 

 Brown, Cbas., 604. 

 Brown, J. H., 11. 

 Brown, I^ M., 619. 

 Brown. Mrs. M. R., 268. 

 Brown, W. B., 396. 

 Buchanan, J. A., 188,248. 

 Buchanan, J. W. & Bro., 



763. 

 Bull, Joshua, 166, 295, 



363, 539, 727, 762. 

 Bull, T. 8., 780. 

 Bunker, A., 31i>, 345. 

 Burnet, H. G., 188, 683. 

 Burnll, P. A., 133. 

 Buirill,T. J., 27, 37, 492, 



604,619,668. 



Cady, J. E., 133. 

 Calvin, B. A., 235. 

 Camm, Wm., 313. 



Camp, C. A., 615. 

 Campbell, E. C, 24, 201, 



273. 

 Carr, W, M.,299. 

 Carroll. B. F., 71,107. 

 Cates, H. M.,796. 

 Cautben. W. S., 188. 

 Chaddock, Mahala B., 



394, 682. 

 Chandler. Lyman, 763. 

 Chapel, W. M., 44, 252, 



535. 

 Chapman, C. H., 12. 

 Cheney, A. B., 27. 

 Cheshire, Frank R., 298, 



374. 

 Church. C. J., 12. 

 ("burchiil, E. P., 427. 

 Clark, H., 27. 1S8. 

 Clark, J. M., 761. 

 Clark, J. W., 492. 

 Clark, Z. A , 107, 172. 

 Clarke, J. W., 552. 



Clarke, Rev. W. P., 21, 

 .53, 91, 103, 120,148,216, 

 279, 326, 360, 489, 491, 

 693,709,712,757. 



Clickenger,Earle, 60,584. 



Clute, Rev. O., 296, 330, 

 345,-521,567. 



Ooggsball, W. L., 236. 



COBSswell, C. H., 247. 



Colburn. B. P., 364. 



Comstock, J. L., 236. 



Conner, Frank, 584. 

 Connley, J.T., 235, 442, 



650, 652. 



Cook, Prof. A. J„40, 76, 

 124, 154, 221, 273, 291, 

 299, 307, 395, 425, 443, 

 508. 523, 552, 566, 572, 

 695,710,732. 



Coombs, E. M.,444. 



Coon, C. H., 75. 



Corbett, Robert, 219,393, 

 443.492, .521. 



Corcor.an, Thos. J., 572. 



Cornell. 8., 55, 184. 



Crane, K. C, 235. 



Crandall.C. M., 312. 



Crawford, Jno., 380. 



Cripe, Henry, SOS, 727. 



Crockett, Mrs. L. M.,438, 

 473. 



Cronkleton, Ezra J., 332. 



Crosby, A., 235, 



Ourrah, Wm.. 820. 



Cutting, H. D., 124, 680, 

 725, 728. 



Dadant, Chas., 154, 662, 



744, 774. 

 Dadant, Chas. & Son, 72, 



165, 221, 278, 298, 387, 



7.59. 

 Dadant, C. P., 535, 585, 



666. 728. 793, 822. 

 Dalziel, Dr. Jas., 19. 



Daniels. 8., 103, 364. 

 Darby. M. B.. 236,411. 

 Darling, Isaac, 396. 

 Davenport. B. T., 411. 

 Davis, C. M., 91, 170. 

 Davis, Hilas D., 234. 

 Davis. Nathan, 267. 

 Dilvis, W. J , 29, 55, 188, 

 230, 332, 348. 



Dawson, L., 716. 



Dayton. C. W., 23, 118, 

 171, 184, 292, 5(M, 583, 

 698, 725. 



Decker* Angell. 372. 



Delffs, Arnold. 442, 506. 



Demaree.G. W.. 25, 100, 

 120, 149, 298, 377, 646. 



Detwiler, J. Y., 220, 330. 



Dibbern.C. H., 218,323, 

 372,379, 380, 396. 451, 

 460, 506, 508, 563, 600, 

 664, 707. 



Dickason, T. B., 12. 



Diehl.L. J., 43, 188. 



D. M. 8.. 3. 



Dodge. U.E., 121. 



Donhoff, Dr.. 440. 



Dooiittle, G. M., 5, 28,69, 

 134, 181, 197, 204, 245 

 251,260, 277, 325, 357 

 405, 421, 453, 459, 502 

 553,5.55, 581, 645, 680 

 709, 716,741,775,792- 



