Pricc.'s Cabinet Reversible Hive 



140,210, 257. 

 Protluct of honey 134, 176 

 Profits of beekeeping 142. 

 Profits of a hive of bees 136. 

 Proposition 123 . 

 Protection in winter 12^. 

 Pseudo foulbrood 51. 

 Pnre progeny and hybrid 5S. 

 Puzzling points 207. 



Quiility of soil for bee culture 183. 



Queen among fertile workers 244. 



Queen catcher 19. 



Queen catching 162. 



Queen cell isolated 42. 



Queen cell queerly placed 38. 



Queen cell, trouble with 157. 



Queen cells, to supply best 49. 



Queen diminutive 52. 



Queen, Italian 240. 



Queen nursery, 143,256. 



Queen raising 74. 



Queen raising in winter lo. 



Queens, dwarfed 219. 



Queens mating twice 8, 3'i, 79, 185, 



186. 

 Queens mating thrice 57. 

 Queens,"reserved l-i5. 

 Queens, two in a hive 163. 

 <.|ueer notion 236. 

 Queries by a beginner 151. 

 Querist's question answered 141. 

 Questions, reply to U. 

 Questions by querist S3. 



Raising early queens 220. 



Rare case 18. 



Recollections of Nev/ York State 



Fair 144. 

 Rectangular movable frame hive 



99 

 Rectangular frame hive, rejoinder 



139. 

 Red clover, Italian bees on .56. 

 Reminder, gentle 9. 

 Removing queens 84. 

 Replies and comments 55. 

 Replies and remarks 229. 

 Replies to inquiries 255. 

 Reply to C. Dadant 15. 

 Reply to questions 11 . 



Re(iuest IDS. 



Responses and remarks 151. 



Reserved queens 145. 



Results 149. 



Results of wintering 14. 



Review of May number 259. 



Robbing bees 9. 



Robber blocks 119. 



Robbing promptly checked 204. 



Sacred history of the honey bee 209. 



Season OS. 



Selecting stock 219. 



Self-robbing 52. 



Several items 125, 194. 



Size of hives 78, 134, 176. 



Soil for bee culture 1S3, 240. 



Something strange 121 . 



Square I'ranio. di)ul)le-case hive 140. 



Stimulative feeding 53, 155. 



Stings 9, 60,210. 



Stopping fugitive swarms. 



Stocks aud hives suited to pastur- 

 age 50. 



Straight combs 165 , 251. 



Successful practice 120. 



Sugar candy, 153. 



Suggestion, another 81. 



Suggestions aud observations 7. 



Suggestions and theories 97. 



Sundry things 118. 



Superseding fertile workers 191. 



Superstitions 76. 



Swarming, artificial 16, 145. 



Swarming, early 223. 



Swarming on foot 12. 



Swarming to prevent 211. 



Swarming without aqueen 8, 16, 74. 



Swarms, artificial 145, 203. 



Swarms, natural 142, 



Swarms, natural, excel artificial 

 123. 



Systematic plagiarrism 260. 



Temperature, brooding 31. 

 Tliat proposition 123. 

 Theories aud suggestions 97. 

 Tlieorv. Dzierzon's 120. 

 Time of blossoms 51. 

 Toad 161. 

 Tobacco smoke 60. 

 Transferring bees 240. 



Trials and queries of a beginner 



157. 

 Triangular comb guide 129, 167, 



194, 201, 207. 

 Trouble with queen cells 157. 

 True theory of bee culture 249. 

 Two queens in a hive 163. 



Uncapping cells 234, 234. 

 Uniting robbing bees 206. 

 Unpatented bee-feeder 14. ■ 



Variation of honey season 182. 

 Various sorts of matter's 27. 

 Ventilating button 220. 

 Ventilation 261 263. 

 Ventilation, natural 83. 

 Ventilation in winter 36. 

 Ventilated hive 72. 

 Views of the Italian bees 235. 

 Vinegar, honey 44. 



Water, eftect of. on combs 1. 



Wax scales found in winter 213. 



West Virginia, bees in 66. 



What caused our bees to die? 167. 



What we lack 67. 



Windsor county, Vermont, 62. 



Wintering bees 5, 32, loo, 103. 120, 



121, 12S, 157, 230, 238, 243. 

 Wintering bees, mishap in 5. 

 Wintering bees on chicken meat 



82. 

 Wintering bees in Canada 76. 

 Wintering fertile reserve queens 



145. 



Wintering, results of 14. 

 Winter-bred queen 184. 

 Winter protection 122. 

 Winter, queen raising in 10, 184. 

 Winter ventilation 36. 

 Word of explanation 232. 

 Worker bees in drone cells 135, 181. 

 Worker comb changed to drone 

 comb 165. 



Yellow bands 200. 



Yellow bands, two or threel 255 . 



Yield of surplus honey, in decimals 



1S4. 

 Young queens laying drone eggs 



INDEX TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Abbe E. P. 187; Adair B. L. 165, 184, 232; Alley H. 

 54, 79, 145, 161, 186, 196, 207, 239; Argo K. M. 14, 61, 100, 

 246 ; Atwood A . 6, 77 ; Ayres G . K . 9 . 



Baldridge M. M. 62, 88; Baldwin Bros. 128; Baker W. 

 239; Barnard A. 36, 137; Barclay J. W. 128. 161; Bar- 

 nard N. 36, 137; Barnard nr. H. C. 243, 257; Baroness of 

 BerlepschUl: BassettC. H. 148; Batcheldor D. T. 172, 

 241; BickfordR. 32, 98, 123, 213; Biglow C. B. 68; Bill E. 

 1, 28: Bledsoe J. K. 167, 218; Blinn H. C. 210; Bohrer 

 Dr. G. 191 ; Boughton G.172; Brickey P. 60;Briggs Eev. 

 E. L . 252 ; Bright E . C . 128 : Brundage A . J . 28 ; Burbank 

 D. 164; Burgess G. T.60; Byers A. 148. 



C. D. 13; Can- W. 24,47, 134; Chaffee H. 115; Chau- 

 man A. 172, 185, 214; Clark J. 169; Cole S. W. 29; Cork 

 G-. 76; Crane J.E.14; Crathorne F. 137; Crist H. 118, 

 153, 220, 234, 236 ; Cochran L . W . 172 ; Codding O . P . 148 ; 

 Coggshall D. H. 51, 117, 122, 160, 162, 172, 179; Condit W. 

 C. 10, 2.56; Conklin Dr. A. V. 159, 231; Crowfoot J. 35; 

 Curtis J. 67. 



Dadant C. 5, 48, 78, 87. 135; Dart R. 128; Davis J. L. 

 12, 36, 145, 220; Davis Dr. J. 19, 143; Davis AV. J. 199; 

 Dayton J . 2::J8 ; Dines J . B . 127 ; Dufleler J . 26 ; Dumass 

 M. A. 127; Dungan D. M. 107; Dunlap A. 120; Durant 

 A. P. 9; Diu-borow H.. 196. 



Edwards L. 108. 



Fairbanks Z. E. .32; Faul H. 86, 106, 121, 128; Fisher 

 A . J . 217 ; Fisher J . L . 181 : Fitz Wilkins . 171 ; Flory 

 J. L. 124; FogelM. D. 13; Fortune J. P. 171. 



Gallup E. 7, 28, 31, 33, 49, 63, 67, 76, 86, 149, 154, 169, 175, 

 183, 193, 207, 212, 218, 220, 229, 232, 233, 240, 243, 255 ; G-ardner 

 J. R. 52, 106; Gill W. 184; Gladden M. A. 217; Good- 

 rich J . D . 241 : Gregory W. 195 ; Greene J . W . 81, 87, 99, 

 244; Grimm A. 108, 125,134,142, 146,158, 185,193,206, 

 211, 213; Green A. 263. 



Hadsell J. H. 96; Hart A. H. 88, 128; Hastings C.6,44, 

 68; Hamlin T. B. 218; Hawkins D. J. 217; Hazeu Rev. 

 J. 50, 176; HillT. C. 87; Housel C. J. 108; Hoyt, C. H. 

 18; HulmanT. Sr. 122; Hussey Rev. J. 14S; Hubbard 

 J. T.. 9, 48, 115, 234. 238; Hunt D. C. 116; Heddon J. 261. 



.Sohnson E. M. 163, 171 ; Johnson J. H. 242 . 



Kellogg G. P. 62; Kidder J. H. 217; Kirk W. H. 9; 

 Kretchmer E. 172. 259 



Lambrecht A. 1, Lane D. P. 213; Langstroth Eev. L. 

 L. 11, 20, 129; Langstroth J. T. 129; Libby H. 243; 

 Llndley L, M. 172; Little G. 88; Locke J. 148; Lovett 

 H. K. 171. 



M. M. 36; Man well Eev. A. C. 119; Marvin J. M. 1.5, 

 136, 155, 189, 194, 240, 243 ; McLean J . L . 8, 48, 182, 251 ; Mc- 

 Math M. 42; Meader, Eev. J. 148; Meader J. D. 157; 

 Merriman J. T. 108; Middleworth J. 195; Miller M. 99, 

 180; Miller E. 166: Miner F. H. 165; Miner H. D. 36; 

 Miner Mrs. M. D. 234; McFatridge P. W. 108, 142, 145; 

 McGaw T. G. 147, 219; Mohler G. 127; Morgan W. H. 

 147, 196; Murphy E. R. 86, 146; Murray J. W. 108. 



NashF. G. 147; Nesbit H. 44. 57,133, 142; Newton 

 W. C. 235, 236; Novice, No. 2. 



Page Mrs. L. 217; Paine O. S. 60, 128; Palmer S. C. 

 82; Parmley Dr. E. 200; Peabody J. L. 16, 142; Peck- 

 ham P. 162; Philips E. 58; Pierson T. 100; Pond .T. E. 

 Jr. 34: Potter A. 117; Pratt Dr, R. W, 243; Price J. M. 

 140, 244, 253; Puckett Dr. B. 58, 124, 206, 260. 



QuinbyM. 200,205,219. 



Reekie D. 86 ; Eogers C. 178, 251 ; Rogers Miss C. S .204 ; 

 Rose J. T. 144; Rosenstiel H. 126; Roebuck J. R. 196; 

 Ruggles G. H. D. 62; Root A. I. 37, 80, 104, 129, 145, 153, 

 169, 173, 208, 247, 257; Rowley W. 268; Russell P. E. Jr. 

 261. 



S. B. 214; Sage L. 217; Salisbury A. 145; Sanborn J. E. 

 P. 196; Sanford Dr. S. 147; Sehlichte F. 217 ; Sheldon 

 W. 148; Severson P. J. 163; Seay J. W. 56, 84, 101; 

 Smith O. T. 15; Smith T. 179, 227; Spence J. 217: .Stiles 

 A. 50; Stinebring, G. W. 218; Stratton, W. M. 

 238 



Thomas J. H. 10, 88, 156, 190, 201; Thomas H. M. 10, 15; 

 Tillinghast I. F. 67, 74, 98, 125, 144, 190, 235,264; Titus A. 

 W. 179; Townley J. H. 166; Truesdell Rev. J. W. 50, 

 56, SO. 



Waite O. C. 167, 236: Wallace J. C. 128; Way J. L. 

 120,171; Wells H. S. 161; White ll. W. 147, 217; Whit- 

 lock C. 172; AVinfleld J. 120,141; AVolcott O. S. 160; 

 Woodbury T. W. 91, 109; Worden J. M 187, 217; Wor- 

 thington D. M. 124, 238. 264; Wurster 6, 156, 203: Wolf 

 W.256; Woody T. 262. 



Young P. 268. 



