THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Index to Volume I. 



NAMES OR SUBJECTS. PAGE. 



AuxiliHry Colony, The, 6 



Advice to Beginners, 50 



Ants in the Apiary, 53 



Automatic Swarm Hiver, The, ... 74 



Apiculture in Canada, ._ 161 



Bee-Keeping for Women, 84 



Best Size of Hive for Extracted Honey, 87 



Bee Escapes, 93 



Bee Pasturage in Texas, 115 



Beware of too Many Swarms, 1*22 



Bees and the Farm, 172 



Convention, N. Y. State Bee-Keepers, 5 



Cuba, A Letter from, 8 



Correspondence, 8, 38, 55, 71, 88, 105, 



120, 136, 150, 167, 182. 



Comb Foundation, 75 



Carniolan Bees, 86 



Cyprus Bees and Bee-Keeping, 186 



Can Bees be Improved ? 118 



Dark Subject. A, 22 



Dewey Beet Cage, 48 



Double Case Hives, 57 



Double vs. Single Wall Hives, 57 



Does it Pay to Use Foundation, — 71 



Drone Comb, 82 



Drawing out Comb Foundation, .. 116 

 Extractor, 11, 41 57, 74, 91, 107, 122, 



137, 152,171, 184. 

 Editorials, 13, 28, 44, 60, 76, 94, 110, 



126, 142, 15s, 175, 190. 



Fixed vs. Loose Bottom Boards, 1 



For Beginners, 37 



Flowers, 56 



Feeding Bees, 65, 134 



''Friend'' in Apiculture, 67 



Fertile Workers and What to do 



With Them, 132 



Feeding Back, 137 



Foul Brood, 185 



Golden Carniolan Bees, 99 



Hen and The Honey Bee, The, .. 91 

 How Can We Elivate the Standard of 



Our Bees? 129 



Hints to Beginners, 139 



How I Wintered My Bees, 150 



How Shall We Prepare Our Bees for 



Winter ? 154 



House Apiaries and Bee Escapes, 174 



Improvement in Bee-Culture, 26 



Instructions to Beginners, 66, 133 



King Bird, The, 100 



Look Out for Rats, 11 



Little Ah Sid, 57 



Large or Small Hives, 70 



Locating an Apiary, 92 



Local Market for Honey, The, 123 



Management of Bees in Winter, 17 



Mine of Honey, A, 153 



Moving Bees to Secure a Fall Flow of 



Honey, 20 



Moving Bees into the Cellar, 184 



Management for August, 123 



NAMES OP SUBJECTS. PAGE. 



No Duty on Queens, 102 



New Uses of Perforated Zinc Queen 



Excluding Boards, 151 



New Year, A, 4 



North American Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention, 178 



Our New Outside Winter Case and 



Thin Hive, 78 



Practical Hints in Bee-Keeping, 179 



Plenty of Bees, Plenty of Honey, 33 



Proper Spacing of Brood Frames, The, 41 



Poetry, _ 71,91 



Proceedings of the Erie Co. Bee- 

 Keepers' Associatien, 103 



Porter Bee-Escape, 107 



Punic Bees, The, 125 



Progressive Bee Culture, 130, 148 



Putting Bees into Winter Quarters, 163 

 Queen Excluders in the Production of 



Comb Honey, 2 



Queen Bee Items, . 92 



Rhode Island Nellis Hive, The, .... 30 



Rambler in Providence. 42 



Robbing, Italianizing and How to In- 

 troduce Queens, 113 



Springing bees, 58 



Spring Treatment of Weak Stocks, 52 



Spring Protection, 49 



Some Mistakes of Some Bee-Keepers, 58 



Seasonable Sayings, 62, 78, 117 



Starting in Bee-Keeping. 101 



Secret of Outdoor Wintering, 5 



Swarm Hiver, A New, _ 48 



The 1891 Outlook, 36 



True Color of Carniolan Bees, 97 



Take the Frame Hive, 107 



Three Methods of Introducing 



Queens, The, 140 



Unprotected Hives, 7 



Uniting Bees, 152 



Ventilating Bee Hives, 146 



Wood Zinc Queen Excluder, The, 24, 



35, 54. 69. 

 Where and How to Build Honey Houses, 42 



Wintering Bees, 146, 177 



Wintering, 157 



What I have Observed &c, 164 



Ventilating Hives, 178 



Index to Contributors. 



PAGE. 



Ashmead, T. G., 40 



Axtell, Mrs. L.C., 53 



Abel. Geo. W., 73 



Andrews, John, 73, 78, 88, 136 



Alley, Henry, 74, 91, 99, 118 



Brown. A. F., 10 



Benton Frank, 07 



Bacon, Geo., ... 100 



Brands, S. B., 105 



Brokaw, Lionel, 137 



Boxwell, Win., 167 



Barrows, O. B., 170 



