836 



TWrn MMEKICMlf BE® JOILJKNSI^. 



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Return bome — poem 119 



Keversing cumbs .. .Buncb,9— Dorsey. 427, Tefft 569 

 Rheumatism and bee-keeping. 292,7(«..Wbiting, 43 

 "Ricb" bee-IawBuit, 4, 355, 579.515, 531. Jardine, 



571 Robinson, 632 



Richest legacy 548 



KidinK hobby-horscB Root, 830 



Rights of bee-keepers Stockwell, 458 



Ripe-fruit beetle Fairbanks, 580 



Ripening honey. 675 1.-ee, 429 



Robber-fly Twining, 57— Cooper, 699 



Robbing.. Reese, 58— Harrison, J86, 649— Hershi- 



ser. 313— Forgan, 619 Mercer, 764 



Robinson and I^aogstroth 18<J 



Roval Jelly 800 



Runaway swarm Wescott, 93 



Rye flour Sheets, 179— Latham, 219— Axtell 220 



Salt for bees Hodge. 412 



Schliesraayer's apiary 612 



Schneider's Albinos (poem) Cullison, 327 



Scientiflc squibs and blunders, 548 Spitzka, 499 



Season hints. Andre,2i5— Harrison, 132— Skinner, 596 

 Season— 1888. . Styer, 42— Demaree, 54— Bramlet, 



56— Thornton, 91 Ran, 199 



Season— 1889. Doolittle, 470— Park, 540— Weekes- 

 ser, 587— Woodward.632—liams, 67 J— Johnson 695 



Second swarms, 107 Mason, 105 



Secrets of bee-keeping, 259 323 



Section-case, 251 681 



Section-press Theilmann, 218 



Sections.. Dibbern. 440 — Le Roy, 468— Whiting, 



565 Harbison, 634 



Senior and junior 613 



Separators, 133,294,390,779 Gifi'ord, 155— 



Hed'ion. 439 Dibbern. 440, 601 



September [poem] Arnold, 296 



September sunrise [poem] Lyndon, 597 



Set and sit 613 



Several egRs in one cell Moesch. 58o 



Shading hives. 518, Tefft,568—Vannoy,569 -Clark, 731 



Shadows [poem] Andrews, 275 



Shaving the combs Abbott, 1H4 



Shiny bees Phelps, 77 



Shipping bees and queens, Harrison, 295— Lossing 

 297— Vogl. 451— Macpheraon, ^20 — Bingham. 738 



Shippinff-crates and supers 831 



Shipping honey ..Theilmann, 121— Roese, 252 



Short-winced bees Cohoon, 237 



Size tif cells in foundation 518 



Size of sections 814 



Small hives and system Taylor, 124, 308 



Snow around hives 3 



Snow-flakes 716 



Soiled sections Dibbern, 6<u 



Something new 467 



Song for May— poem Rexford, 324 



Sore eyes and erysipelas Kruschke, 249 



Southern comb honey Israel, 291 



space between supers and hives 799 



Spraying trees, t!!)l.80ii Larrabee, 7rt— Brickey 779 



Spring care of bees — Graden, 166— Smith, 183— 



Bunch, 199 Dahl, 202 



Spring dwindling 36 



Spring management of bees Bingham, 22— 



Kirkpatrick. 89— Robertson, 298— Hershiser, 312 



Spring work, 228 Stockwell. 37t» 



Starting an apiary Harrison, 296 



Starved brood Wylie. 215 



Starving bees Clark, 200— Bunch. 378— TefTt, 379 



Statistics— bee-keeping, 83,372,547.707,827— Rusk. 291 



Sterile queens Stoner, 92 



Stimulative feeding, 267 Abbott, 171 



Stinging-bug Russell, 604 



Stingless bees 387 



Stores for winter, lOI, 278...Beath, 168— Latham, 281 



Storitying hives, 23 Tinker, 75 



Storni-warners Hodge, 412 



St raight combs Robbins, 28~Reese, 58 



Straw hives Hoke. 252 



Straw mats Shuck, 615 



Strong temptation —poem 168 



Studying things that are made Hand, 200 



Stung by bees 651 



Sub-earth ventilators, Eiwood,99,235-Betsinget-,l56 



Sublime thoughts 730 



Successful bee-keeping Arnold, 540 



Sugar for queen-cages Christie, 652 



Sugar stores Stout, 237 



Sulphur fumigation 662 



Sulphur on buckwheat 774 



Summer —poem Beattie, 265 



Sunday swarming Harrison, 536 



Supers with bee-spaces 422 



Surplus bees and combs,6-<l .Bectiiy, 42 



Swarm in a dwelling-house Clemmons, 556 



Swarmine. 275. 53l,5fi4 Vought. I(k>— Tinker, 



UN)— Anderson, 16ii, 555— McKeon. 182— Pond, 

 182— Taylor. 182 — Demaree, 182 — Baerstler, 

 380-DooIittle, 39l,409-Coverdale.426-8ted- 

 dom. 428— Graves. 428 — Harrison, 457. 536— 

 House, 471— Benedict, 508— Hood, 521— Mon- 



la^rue, 586— Auringer. 587 Rose, 758 



Swarming-box Walker, 135 



Swarmmg device Wilcox, 380 



Swarm of golden bees —poem Shelley, 340 



Swarm on a carriage Oldfleld. 475 



Swarming-out . . . Rosser, 12— Reese, 59— Crouley. 72 



Swarming without drones 831 



Syrup for feeding bees Harrison, 186 



Taxing bees Stark, 435— Olney, 620— Secor. 666 



leraperature and bees 69 



Temperature Inside the brood-nest . . . .Doolittle. 325 

 Temperature in winter, 118. ...Holtermann, 56— 



Rocse. 218 eooli, 678 



1 heones In bee-keeping Hubbard, 167 



Thing that makes the buzz —poem Castle, 662 



Third covers Muth. 629 



'1 id-hlts about bees 34i.( 



Tierm^-up. Gile. 420 



ainkers system of management 25 



Toads and bees. .Strong, 102— Smith, l7l— Hovis, 



216-Walker.250 Dadant, 264 



Tobacco Hill, 54<>-Aldrich. 587— Woodward, 632 



To-day and to-morrow -poem 432 



Temy setter'* scout" —poem Selden, 



Top-bars 



To Stay at home is best —poem Longfellow, 



To the hills— poem Palliser, 



Transferring bees. 308.. Myers, 259— Miller, 279— 



Polndexter. 345 Doolittle, 



Trembling or nameless bee-disease. 484, Bull, 392 

 Beall.540— Skinner, 541,635— Russell. 571— 

 Theilmann, 584, 713 — Mercer, 643— Dibbern, 



Truth about honey Gehring, 



Two colonies in one hive Harvey, 



Two queens in a hive Harrison, 295— Hone, 



Uncapped sections Doolittle, 



Uncapping honey, 36, 307 Durham, 172— Hill, 



204— Dorsey. 427 : Tefft, 



Under the whispering leaves —poem. .Chaddock, 



Unfinished sections, 108. 682 Coppin, 



Uniting colonies, 24.=i . .Axtell. 10— Eidemiller. 11 

 Hershiser, 313— Ware. 475— Dahn, 5i->o— Flory, 

 539— Harrison, 631— Craycraft, 696— Doolittle, 



Unwired combs Demaree, 



Varieties of clover. . Wooodward. 764— Harrison, 

 VentilatinK bee-cellars, 41. 741. ..Theilmann, 11, 



121— Whitmer, 137— Miller. 231 Sisson. 



Ventilation of hives 71, Doolittle, 10. Brokaw. 27 

 Secor,280, Tefrt,346,468. Parcher.651. Gehring, 



Visits to bee-keepers House, 712— Sherman, 



"Water for bees Harrison, 



Water in honey and cells, 53, 374 Patterson, 



Wax-extractors Sherman, 



Weather 404, 



Weeds Dibbern, 



Weighing and mixing honey 



Weighing bees... Lyman, 251— Phin, 



What and why of agriculture 



What makes the summer?- poem HoUey. 



Who keep bees, 5 Holtermann, 



Why bees desert hives 



Width of hives 



Wild bees Becker, 



Wing-strokes in a second 



Wintering bees. .22, 297,681- Doolittle, 38— Bing- 

 ham.44—Snow,44— Holtermann, 56— Larrabee 

 75— Axtell. 91 — Whitmer. 137— Bealh, 168— 

 Latham, 281, 618 — Tyrrel, 295— Svphrlt, 298— 

 Hershiser, 328— Muth, 601, 629— bufr,602,755 

 Shuck,6i5—Lightv.fi50— Hawkins, 652— Cook. 

 677— Vannoy. 690- Gehring, 712— Craycraft, 



714— Robinson, 72t>— McKnight 



Wintering bees in the South Craycraft, 



Winter song —poem 



Winter stores, 827 Holtermann, 56— Church, 



Winter work Dibbern, 



Wisdom of bees "Week, 



Woman's success with bees Thompson. 



Women as bee-keepers Stiller, 777— Buller. 



Wooden combs Cook, 615— Aspinwall, 649, 



Worker-cells changed to drone-cells 



Worker-comb. 133 Newman, 



Work in the apiary Dufl", 



World's Fair Aspinwall, 580— Holtermann. 



Worship in the woods — poem Diehl, 



Young queens Kouba, 27— Pratt, 



Zinc honey-tank 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Alsike clover 



Apiary of J. M. Yoiiug- 



Apiary of Walter Harmer.. 



Apis Dorsata combs 



Australian Apiary 



Bee-killers, armetl flies, etc. 



Bees are swarming 



Bull.T. S.. 



24S 

 .■iOn 



277 

 344 

 405 

 181 



Climbing- after Apis Dorsata 



Coal palace 



Cook, Prof. A.J 



Coverdale bee-escape 



Davis honey-carriage 



Detroit Exposition building 



Dibbern bee-escape 



Doolittle, G. M 



Glands of bees 



Greiner's alighting-board 



Honey-sections 



Ruber, Francis 



Hutchinson, W. Z 



Microscope 



Milk-weed (^scIfpM(^) 



Nye begins to get restless 



Packed hive for winter 648, 



Pittsburgh E.vposil ion building 



Pittsburgh machinery hall 



Plant-louse 



Pratt's queen-rearing ajiiary 



Pratt's queen-rearing hive 



Reese bee-escape 727, 



Roese, Ker. Stephen 



Rooster of the Bee-Keepers' Union 



Root, A. I 



Secor, Eugene 



Sioux reservation 



Spokane J"alls, Wash. Ter 



Stingless bees 



Straw mat s for hive 



Sweet clover 



Uncapping machine 



Washington and his successors 



When the bees have ceased to swarm. . 



273 

 343 

 613 



798 

 468 

 38!) 



7ns 



260 

 37.") 

 4.-i2 

 468 

 4.'i7 

 229 

 84 

 5G6 

 .5.51 

 649 

 .549 

 .549 

 444 

 661 

 778 

 7.39 

 212 

 421 

 117 

 1.50 

 .549 

 .549 

 387 

 61.5 

 .59 

 36 

 293 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



Abbott, Rev. B. T. 169 



Abbott, L. F. 60, 73, 170, 



184. 5K4, 631 

 Adair, Frances, 227 

 AfflerbauKb, N. W. 11 

 Ahlborn, Louis, 524 

 Aiken. K. O. 93 

 Aldrich.P. M. 587 

 Alley, Henry, 35. 43, 483, 



579, 707, 744. 795 

 Alton, A. M. 248 

 Anderson, Mrs. Martha, 



166, 555 

 Anderson. N. C. 747 

 Anderson, T. A. 27, 604 

 Anderson, Wm. 428 

 Andre, J. H. 42, 215 

 Andrews, John, 275. 362 

 Andrews, W. H. 12,51 

 Andrews & Lockliart,i32, 



140 

 Armstrong, J. C. 548 

 Arnold, Geo. 296 

 Arnold, 1. N. 444, 540. 556 

 Ashby, G. H. 27, 61, 663, 



763 

 Aspinwall, Jobn, 84, 164, 



179.389.580 

 Aspinwall, L. A. 649, 708 

 Aten, A C. 134, 360 

 Ault, A.E. 40 

 Auringer, Geo. H. 252,587 

 Averv, John B. 93 

 Axtell, Mrs. L. C. 10, 91, 



116, 172,220,371,627 



Baloh, A. C. 11 

 Baldwin, A. A. 134 

 Baldwin, B. T. 571 

 Baldwin.L. W. 99 

 Barb, B. F. 172 

 Barb, J. S. 316, 745 

 Barber, C. D. 28. 3.30, 731 

 Barber. Ira. 202, 8i>4 

 Barclay, VP. S. 697 

 Barker, Dayton B. 121 

 Barnes, W. A. 310 

 Barnhart. Samuel, 136 

 Barnum, W. M. 179, 484 

 Barrows. O. B. 252, 268, 

 427, 695 



Bates, P. J. 61 

 Beall, Wra. 540. 547 

 Beatb. Jos. 156. 168 

 Bechtold. J. C. 747 

 Bechly, Fred, 42 

 Becker, o. (;. 108 

 Becktell, R. S. 108 

 Bell, N. M. 4»'4 

 Bence. J. A. 348 

 Benedict, Aaron, 508 

 Bertrand, Ed. 467 

 Betsinger. N. N. 132, 156 

 Betten. Miss Helen, 331 

 BinKham. J. H. 44 

 Bingham, T. F. 22, 1S6, 



376, 758 

 Bittenbender, J. W. 652 

 Bixler, Chas.K. 171, 268, 



Black, Alex. 100 

 Black. S. N.492 

 Blackball, J. 219 

 Blades, R. P 45, 236, 460 

 Blanken. John H. 731 

 Blodget, John, 587, 748 

 Boerstler, John, 108, 268. 

 315, 380. 5'*8.6.52, 716,780 



Boker, Geo. H.454 

 Booth. .lobn, 12 

 Bowen. S. B. 411 

 Bowman, H. S. 156 

 Boyles, J.B. 804 

 Brader, C. H. 28 

 Bradish, C. W. 44 

 Bramlet. H. 56 

 Bray, Moses, 748 

 Bray & Seacord, 44 

 Brickey, Peter, 779 

 Briggs, Mrs. B. 485 

 Briggs, E. 395, 460 

 Brillhart, S. B. 236 

 Bristline, Dr. G. W. 636 

 Bruiidhead. John, 43 

 Brokaw, Lionel, 27, 236, 



331 

 Brooks, J. E. 12 

 Brown. Arthur F. 635 

 Brown, Jas. E. 251 

 8rown,J. Few. 571 

 Brown. J. H. 60 

 Brundage. Tbos. B. 92 

 Bryant. 5Vm. C. 387 

 Buck, D. C. 38 

 Bull, Joshua, 45,3so, 392, 



776 



Buller, Henrietta F. 817 

 Bump, Edwin, 12 

 Bunch, C. A. 9, 199, 378, 



419.763 

 Burgess, C. M. 163 

 Burgess, S. H. 479 

 Bunch, J. M. 636 

 Burton, S. 2l9, 39.5, 427 



Caldwell. J. v. 219. 460 

 Campbell. E. C. 218. 376 

 Campbell. R. IL 2"4 

 Canady. T. U 92 

 Capser, Caspar. 331 

 Carter. B. F. 203 



Carver. Robt. 572 

 Castle. H. D. 662 

 Cavazza. E.492 

 Chaddock, Mrs. M. B. 90. 



134. 179. 5811.696 

 Chandler, L. 474 

 Chapman, Justus. 435 

 Cheasbro. L. D. 108 

 Christie. J. H. 652 

 Church a, Son. S. J. 51.60, 



Clark. Edward. 539 

 Clark. J. M. (Colo.) 123 

 Clark. J.M. Mich. 200.732 

 Clark, J. W. 731 

 Clark, Z. A. 291 

 Clemmons, Noah. 45. 556 

 ColBn, Mark, 220 

 Cohoon, B. B. 236 

 Collier, P. P. 588 

 Collins. B. H. 104. 59^ 

 Collins. J. W. 1.56.429 

 Colwick.-J. N. 283 

 Compton. O. S. 467 

 Comstock. J. L. 411 

 Conner. C. W. 588 

 Cook. Prof. A. .1. 84. 147, 



1.45. 216.340.355.3.'>8.;«4, 



371. 375, 387. 420.442..523, 



.524. 611.615.647.660.677. 



762, 832. 

 Coombs. E. M. 699 

 Cooper. J. C. 699 

 Copei-fnd. Jacob. 44 

 Coppin. Aaron. 695 

 Corneil. S. 819 

 Cory. Wm. O. 187 

 Costellow. C. W. 249 

 Councelman. F. 603 

 Councilman. E. W. 108, 



412.456 

 "Country Bee." 90 

 Coverdale. Krank. 6o,in7, 



396, 426, 619. 697.744.801, 



764 

 Cowan. Anna L. 451. 691 

 Craycraft. John. 636. 678. 



696. 714. 778 

 Cronkleton. E. J. 394, 748 

 Crotzer, A. S. 315 

 Crouley, Wm. 72 

 Crumrine. David, 204 

 Cullinan. W. J. 289, 315 

 Cullison, Dr. M. R.268,327 

 Cumins, A. W. 492 

 Cunningham. H. A. 364 

 Cushman. Samuel. 360 

 Cutting. H D. 524 



Dadant 4 Son. Chas. 4.99. 

 172. 228. 264.311.393,488, 

 580,715,796 

 Daggett, S. E. 44 

 Dahl, Rev. T. H. 202 

 Dahn, N. A. .5i«> 

 Dakin, A. K. B84 

 Daniher. D. D 699 

 Dare. Blla. 440 

 Darling, Isaac. 61 

 Dart. R. 678 

 Davenport. B. T. 716 

 Davidson, G. F 300. 636 

 Davis. John B. 475 

 Davis. W. J. 138 

 Day. A. M.412 

 Delamater, J. A. 140 

 De La yens, G. 796 

 Demaree, 54,328,505,608 

 Desquartiers, M. 99 

 Detwiler, John V. 420 

 Dewar, John, 428 

 De Witt, John, 532 

 Dibbern, C. H. 3, 67. 164. 

 27.5,371. 411. 4411.472.601. 

 61 1. 612. 634. 743. 779.797 

 Dickinson. E. L. 311 

 Dickson. C. W. 6ti3 

 Diehl. B. H. 757 

 Dierdorir. H. 747 

 Donoho. Wm.H. 725 

 Doolittle. G. M. 9. 38, 57 

 67. 88. 106. 137. 183. 2fll 

 232. 246. 260, 276. 323.325 

 340. 3.59. 39 1 ,409. 439. 453 

 456, 470,483,487,504,519, 

 540, .553, ,570.581,599.663, 

 711,728, 775,812 

 Dorsev, Mrs. Ada, 427 

 Doudna, J. M, 316, 403 

 Dougherty. D. W. 108 

 Douglass, W. S. 604 

 Dow, Chas. E. 61, 668 

 Dow. C. W. 45 

 Dowell. Jos. 1.56 

 Downing. W. B. 214 

 Drane & Son, E., 77 

 I>rew, Wm. L. 329 

 Dubini, Dr. Angolo, 796 

 Dutr. A. H., .582, «(p2, 643 

 Duncan, A. J. lOH, 538 

 Dunlap, A. H. 698 

 Dunlap, J. B. 268 

 Durham. Henrv, 172 

 Duvall. C. D.. 276 

 Dyke. K. A. 204 

 Basley, S. M. W.761 

 Eastwood, L. 60 

 Eaton, F. A. 116. 316,668 

 Eckman, J.W. 379 

 Kd^all, J.N. 651.707 

 Edwards, T. M. 140. 331 



