INDEX TO VOLUME XIIT. 



Correspondence : 



About Honey tU 



A Cheap Bee House B43 



A few more Straws 232, 268, 337 



Agricultural College Apiary — 18 



Aijricultural Prnu'ress til 



All]. Institute and the National. 163 



A MiiTDScdpiciil (Question 88 



An Easy cure v( t'uul Brood ... 93 



A New Hiving Apparatus 238 



An Injustice 133 



A Novel Experiment 414 



Answer to J. C. Newman 63 



Answer to Mr. Badant 274, 343 



Apiarian or Apiarist? lt>5 



A Prolific Queen 312 



A Woman's Experience 194 



Bee-Culture and Stings 307 



Bee-Culture in the South 56 



Bee Hives i:33, 348 



Bee Hunt in Florida 413 



Bee-Keeping as a Pursuit 69 



Bee Lice 9t) 



Bee Notes from Iowa 34 



Bee Notes from Kentucky, . . 30, 307 



Bee Smoker— H. Nesbit 199 



Bees and Red Clover 314 



Bees at Agricultural College 67 



Bees of the same Colony fighting, 



99, 129 , 200 337 



Benefits of Bees and Plants 173 



Billings, on the Honey Bee 98 



Bingham Hives 128 



Bingham Smoker 221, 235 



Black vs. Italian Bees 90, 129, 235, 



272, 309 



Blasted Hopes 141 



B( IX r.s. Frame Hives 65 



Building Straight Combs 231 



California Honey Crop 2t3(! 



California Honey Interests 26S 



Care of Bees in Winter 412 



Centennial Award— Extractors. 201 

 Changing Larvas in queen cells . 337 



Changing Queens 16 



Cheai) Queens 230 



Chickens Eating Bees 190 



Chilis fnini Sweet Home, 17,133,4(19 

 City Bee-Keeping (Illustrated). .59 



Coe's House Apiary 67 



Comb Foundations 29, 30, 63, 130, 



303, 304, 309, 377, ". . 417 



Comb Guides 63, 13;^ 



Constitution of National Society, 91 



Corn Blossoms and Honey 163 



Cyprian and Carniolian Bees ... 27 

 Cyprian Bees 313 



Desirable Combs— How Secured 194 



Discussion in Germany 2.3 



Does Bee-Culture pay? 88 



Dollar Queens ."197, 231, 263, 305 



Dollar Queens vs. Imported 308 



Doolittle's Report 416 



Dysentery i;>5 



Explanation from Benedict 239 



Facts for the Public 379 



Falsification of Honey 350 



Feeding Bees, and Feeders 349 



Foreign Races of Bees 380 



Foul Brood 196 



Future of the National Society. 90 



Hardin Haines A'entilated 2;i3 



Hives in Rows 65 



Honesty the best Policy 'M 



Honey a Luxury 140 



Honey and Pollen Resources... 128 

 Honev as an Article of Food ... 191 



Honev Dealers 374 



H..neV-l)i'\v 273 



Hi iney in Frames 17 



Honey Market, Crop & Prices . . a)3 



How 1 winter ray Bees 54 



How mav we Imjirdve Bees? ... 2(!9 

 How to f)estriiv Mnth-Millers .. 30 



How to ])(,iil)le-iil> Hives 21 



How to I'"asten Foiindaticm .... 202 

 How to Italianize Blaeks, &c ... 134 

 How to Prevent Increase 2M 



I Can 341 



Important Points in Bee Hives, 17 

 Imported Queens 415 



Imported Queens and Breeders. 340 

 Improvement of Italian bees,r27, 190 



Inaugural Address 168 



Introilucing Queens,.. 25,87,163, 



■j:;.'i. ■i:;;!, ;;o;i, 385 



Is Wax Wholesome? 69 



Italian Bees 130, 190, 271 



Joint in the Leg of a Bee 176 



LarviB of Queens and Purity of 



Drones 304 



Letter from California 263 



Letter f n >iii Kansas 20 



Life Insuiance 134 



Longevity of Honey Bees 272 



Lying out of Bees 65 



Manjigement of the Apiary 383 



Marketing Honey 371, 416 



Merits of Italians and Blacks ... 227 



Michigan Association 199 



Michigan State Fair 340 



Mistakes of Bee-Keepers 92 



Mode of Preparing for Winter . 131 



My Annual Report 66 



My Bees 28, 229 



My Queen Cage 311 



My Report and Management ... 350 



Neatness in Bee-Keeping 34 



Nil Desperandum 409 



Northern Minn. Apiaries 16 



Notes by the Way 339 



Notes from Louisiana 237 



Notes frctai Tennessee 90' 



Odds and Ends 266 



On Novice 403 



Open Letter to Prof. Cook 417 



Organization and sale of Honey, 378 



Our Honey Season 309 



Our Interests 95 



Our Michigan Convention 54 



Our National Society 22 



Over-Stocking 203 



Pasturage 19 



Patents 385 



Plan for Getting comb honey. . . 349 



Pleasure of Bee-Keeping 411 



Points for Reporters 97 



Portable Shade Covers 2t;s 



Preparing Brood for Winter . . . .382 

 President; Andrews' Address . . . 3(;'.i 



President Bacon's Address l:'..'i 



Prevention of After-Swarming. lU 



Prevention of Increase 37(1 



Price of Queens and Colonies 164,202 

 Progress in Bee-Culture 60 



Queens laying in queen cells, "267, 273 

 Queries 23 



Read This 304 



Rearing Italian Queens . 305, 214, 381 

 Recipe for Bite of Mad Dogs. ... 190 



Renewing Combs 268 



Report from G. M. Dooliitle 347 



Scraps from Illinois 2:^3 



Sending Bees by Mail 238, 308 



Sliall Fiirmers keep Bees? 172 



Shall Women Keep Bees? .. 170,197 



Shipping Bees 413 



Slate Registers 268, 303 



Strange Things in Bee-dom 312 



Surplus Honey 28, 58, 63 



The Barnes Foot-Power Saw .. . 203 



The Bee's Physiology 177 



The Candying of Honey .54 



The Composition of Honey 172 



The Del.orah Hive 198 



The lOxpress Companies 4tH) 



The Honey Jlarkel 376 



The Kalamazoo Convention (56 



The Micliigan B. K. Association 65 



The National Convention 310 



The I'urii V ■ if the Italian Bee . . 136 



That Queen Bee 201 



The Science of Bee-Keeping ... 68 



Thoughs on Bee-Keeping 413 



Thoughts on Insurance 87 



Two Queens in same Hive . . 267, 271 



Union Apiary 21, 96 



Un-scientific Bee Culture 30 



Various Matters 55. 



Ventilation 87 



Visit to a Canadian Bee-keeper. 26 

 Visit to an Illinois Bee-Keeper . 313 

 Visit to a Neighbor's Apiary 28 



Weather Report in Louisiana . . 131 



Which Frames to Adopt 2".i7 



Whichisit? 27 



Whitman's Fountain Pump 309 



Wintering Bees 165, 202, 234, 300 



Wintering Nucleus Colonies . . . 202 



Wintering on Honey Dew 342 



Wintering on Summer Stands . . 236 

 Winter Transf ering 128 



Editor's Table: 

 Additions to our Museum, 13, 120, 



188,221,257,-260 401 



American Institute Fair 365 



A New Discovery 187 



Barnes Foot-Power Saw 156 



Bee Stings 402 



Beeswax— A Staple Article 33() 



Bee Items from Louisiana 46 



Bibulous Bees 402 



Bulls Ne Plus Ultra Hive 84 



California Honey 219 



Chinese Mustard a Honey Plant. 188 



Clean out tiie Hives 188 



Comb Foundation Machines 86 



Comb Honey Carriers 330 



Deserved Tribute 364 



Editorial Items, 13, 46, 49, 50, 8:3, 86, 

 119, 132, 155, 158, 185, 188, 219, -221, 

 257, 260, '393, 294, 329, 332, 368, 386, 

 4U1,. 404 



Eggs laid In Queen Cells 220 



Farm Prosperity 381. 



Future of the National Society. . 13 



Harvest Musings 331 



Hints to Beginners 119, 262 



Honey-Producers' Interests 4o 



Honey Product of Southern Cal. 260 



House Apiaries 222 



How to go to the Convention — 332 



Is it Pure? 219 



Mad nogs 119 



Moons /{.(' Worlrl 317 



Mut h's Extractor. 258, 295 



My Plan for Registering 2o» 



New York Honey House 260 



October Management 332 



Prizes for Essays 402 



Quinby's Clamps 121 



Railroad Strike and Riot 258 



Rates of Postage ,\;;,-i-'i 



Registering Slates 219, i^ 



Removal of OfBce .;.;v 'VS? 



Royal Bee Funeral 331, 4UiS 



Seasonable Hints 294 



Sectional Honey Boxes ,— 'TSir 



Sending Bees by Mail !*• .,2A 



Separating Honey from Wax ■■••■*" 



Something New |* 



Stevenson's Extractor t»< 



Surplus Frames J.to 



Sweet Clover *» 



Tennant's Honey Box 107 



The Festive Hopper loo 



The Finn 1 live • ,;• ■.• • • • --^ 



The First Curved Honey Knife.. 1»» 



Tlie ll..ney Market -onT?^ 



The National Convention. .. .294, 4(^2 



The Seas, ,ii of 1876-7 4| 



The War in Europe .J°° 



Thurber Gold Medal 3W 



To our Southern Subscribers too 



Tremontani Queens 331 



What shall the Harvest be? • • • • ■ -^^ 

 What Shall we do with Honey? . -260 



White's Extractor 188, 219 



Wisdom of the Past .,11 



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