1907-] 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Page. 



Top Entrances 142 



Transportation of Drone Brood by Mail, 37 



Transvaal 69 



Treating- Slumgrum 17S 



True the World Over x 6S 



What are Drones for? 72 



"WTiere Prairie Breezes Blow 17 6 



Winter Conditions Within the Hive 103 



Wired Foundation vs. Wired Frames, 134, 168 



Wisdom of Bees. As to 50 



Wiswell-Richardson Apiary, The 8 



Will Meet This Month 269 



Worcester Co., Mass.. Association 



46, 88. 100, 176, 183, 189, 220 239 



Work in the Apiary for October 253 



Worker Comb In the Brood Frames ....255 

 Writing for Money 146 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



American Hives Adapted to German 



Conditions 142 



Apiary of Geo. H. Johnson 7 



Apiary of C. W. Dayton 91 



Apiary of Dr. W. R. Claussen 136, 137 



Apiary of Dr. E. N. Francis 166 



Apiary of E. F. Atwater 81 



Apiary of F. D. Weaver 137 



Apiary of Geo. B. Howe 114 



Apiary of M. C. Harrington 112 



A Church in Which Bees are Kept 172 



A Progressive New Zealand Apiarist ...269 



Bees and Horticulture 192, 193 



Bees Depositing Honey in the Cells 43 



"Bees Took Lion's Ribs for Langstroth 



Frames" 1^1 



Brood Comb Taken from Walls of Build - 



41 



289 



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Corner of Dewey's Apiary 89 



Dayton's Queen Rearing Outfit 267 



Dayton's Entrance Guard 167 



Drawn Coinbs After Voegler Patent 



Treatment 144 



Display of J. M. Buchanan. Tennessee 



State Fair. 1907 272 



D. H. Coggshall in Bee Dress 138, 139 



Foundation Treated According to Voegler 



Method 145 



Fred. W. Muth and Daughters 78 



German Honey Extractor 68 



Gardiner and Medals 269 



Greiner's Hive Stands 169 



Hill Overgrown with Sweet Clover 195 



Home of F. H. Di'ake 59 



Home of Geo. H. Johnson 124 



Home Apiary of John M. Davis 271 



Landing First Bees in New Zealand ....108 



Latham-Miller Bee Veil 33, 34, 35 



Load of Honey Cans 7 8 



Mailing The Bee-Keeper 52 



Massachusetts Field Meeting 61 



Massachusetts Veterans 57 



Miller's Observation Hive 10 



Mrs. Geo. H. Johnson 123 



National Bee-Keepers' Convention, at 



San Antonio, Texas 22 



N. Y. State Convention at Geneva 117 



Premiums Won by E. F. Atwater 63 



Part of Apiary of J. M. Buchanan 270 



Rearing Queens and Feeding Nuclei 267 



Scenes in California Apiary, 216, 218 219, 226 

 St. Lawrence and Jeff. Co.. (N. Y.) 



Convention ^-^^ 



Taking Down Swarm, of Bees "< 



Transporting Bees in the Caucasian 



Mountains 243, 246, 253 



Wiswell-Richardson Apiary 8 and 9 



Xylocopa Virginica and Scolia Plumipes, 133 



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