Index to Volume III.-American Bee Journal. 



A season sunoiif!; Italian hoe^, 1 

 A-tjoncy ol' inscc.'s in tVitilizing 



plants, 22, 1!)7 

 Alhinos among bee?, 08 

 Allen's pati-nt liive, 17, 55, 



C>7, 09, 107 

 Alsaliu-i, Prof., A. P. A. A. 



M., 54, 97 

 Alsike clover, 90, 151, 180 215 

 Amount of honev in a field, 



240 

 American bee plant, 50. 71, 

 Another bee jjlaiit, 78 [IOC 

 Anotlier exce|)tion, 11 

 Another singular case, 172 

 Answ-rs to questions, 107, 



190, 217 

 Ai)istical budget, 71 

 Are pa'ent hives selfish mo- 



noi)olies ? 217 [239 



Answer to a corresnondent, 

 Artificial colonies. 221, 240 

 Ailificial comb guides, 219 

 Artificial swarming, 03 

 Associations of Bee-keepers, 



59, 100, 127. 179 [119,135 

 Aster ericoides, as a bee plant, 

 Attacks on queens, 128 

 BMnishment of bees, 197 

 Bee-culture in Chili, 04 

 Bee culture, remarks and ob- 

 servations, 105 

 Bee bob, 27, 59, 230 

 Bee eater, 40 

 Bee feed, 12 

 Bee feeders, 200, 215 

 Bee hives, 17, 55. 00, 07, 09, 

 Bee house, 7, 155 [90 



Bee hnnting. 8, 175, 20b 

 Bee pasturage. 29 [212 



Bee-keeping, 45. 79, 108, 134, 

 Bee-heeping in ralifornia, 140 

 Bee keeping in Germany, 32 

 Bee-keepmir in the Ukraine, 



113 

 B' e-keeping in Virginia, 189 

 Bee tree, how to cut, 151 

 Bees and fruit blossoms, 177, 

 ,232 [199 



Bees breeding without water. 

 Bees, hermaphrodite, 151 

 Bees in cliffs. 17G 

 Bees in hollow trees. 175 

 Bees, Italian 1, 31, 58, 75, 79, 



89. 100, 214 ' ' ' ' 

 Bees, reproductfon of, 73 

 Bee.- wax, source and nature of. 

 Beginners, advice to, 43 [13 

 Best form of hives, 180 

 Bidens chysanthemoides, 78 

 B'eaching wax, 25, 01 

 Breathing lest. 51 

 Birch bark hive, 90 

 Buckwheat in po ^r soil, 190 

 Building combs, 114 



Bur-marigold, 78 

 Burying Itees, 12 

 Butferllv, stinging, 12S 

 California, bees in, 132 [199 

 Chu bees l)reed without wilcf ?■ 

 Can Italian Ifcs be improvcid? 

 Carder t)ee, 00 [lOs 



Carpenter Ixje, 08 

 Cedar plank bee house, 155 

 Cells incline upwanl, 117 

 Cel'ars, winteriiiir bees in, 180 

 Centre pas-ages. 200 [192 



CliMUge of proiren}', 194 

 Ciiickory as a bee plant, 130 

 Chili, bee-cnltnre in, 04 

 Classifying,' hon^y. 32 

 Clean comb for guides, 112 

 Cleome integri folia, 50, 220 

 Closed or open top hives, 234 

 Clover, red. and lialian bees, 



75, 138, 154, 159. 100, 191. 

 Color of queens, 214 [240 



Common failures, 132 

 Coniribulion to bee culture, 41 

 Corresiiondence, 57, 37, 39, 



79, 93. 158 

 Crippled bees, 230 

 Criticism 188 



Crops for bee-pasturage, 151 

 Crystal zation of honey, 92 

 Curious ins'ances of swarminc: 

 Dam ige from mice, 5 [107 

 Delayed fecundation, 5, 5<5 

 Deep Lnniistroth hives, 149 

 Depth of hives, 119, 205 

 Destroying brood, 28 

 Development of Italian work- 

 Diseases of bees, 152 [ers, 87 

 Do bee* know their owner? 35 

 Doi;ility of Itidian bees, 30 

 Doublinir second swarms, 40 

 Drones, 108 

 Drone comb, 40 

 Drone eggs, 4 

 Droties, purity of, 109 

 E'onomy of the bee hive, 207 

 Editorial 17 38. 57, 77, 97, 



118, 135, 157, 177, 178, 197, 



215, 237 

 EgiTs. not hr.tcliabU-, 218, 237 

 Egyptian bees. 114. 109 

 Empty combs, preservation of. 

 Espirsette, 10« [120 



European bee-culture. 70 

 Evaporating nectar, 172 

 Every one his due, ISO 

 Exception, another, 11 

 Explanate on. 191 

 Explanation desired, 200 

 Experience of a N >vice, 23, 



53, 05. 98, 119, 129. 158 

 Experience in Italianizing, 



1:4. 190, 231 

 Experience in wintering bees. 

 Experiments, 91 [155 



Extra queens, 43, 108 

 Eyi-s of bees, 18 

 Facts ai)()nt the honey bee, 18 

 Fecundation delayed, 5, 50 

 Fee I ill!] bees, 41 

 Ferlile'workers, 103, 240 

 Fertility of queens, 214 

 Fertilizing plants, 22. 197, 232 

 Fixed Irames, 118, 191 

 Flanders' apiary, 70 

 Flowers, honey -yii^iding, 33 

 Foice of ."tocks, 154 

 Form of hives. 180, 217 

 Foulbrood, 75, 80, 141, 101, 



170, 198, 210, 231 

 Fr.iines, closed oropen top, 234 

 Fun amouii' bees, 112 

 Furnished hives, 37, 73 

 Gaseous theory of honey comb 



formation, 31 

 G rm my, bee-keeping in, 32 

 Give every one his due, 180 

 Handling bees, 206 

 Harrison's Ijee-tVeder, 215 

 Height of hives. 230 

 Hive, well ventilated, 20 

 ILves, 80, 90, 179, 184, 220, 230 

 Hives pi tent, and claims, 235 

 Hives and management, 20 3 

 Hives, side opening, 110, 148 

 H ney, 55, 70 

 Honey dews, 176 

 Honey, how to judge of it, 70 

 Ho ey bee, facts ab lut, 18 

 Hone}' beti, Liberian, 20 

 Honey classified, 10 

 Honey comb emjjtying ma- 

 Honev iruide. 50 [chine, 189 

 Honey in the fi^-ld, 240 

 Honey plant, 24 

 Honevpol r.t nd kpan, 237 

 H<mey ralel. 111, 157 

 Honey supply for winter, 10 

 Honey-yielding flowcs, 33 

 How about pure Italians ? 129 

 How I became an apiculturist, 



171, 193,239 

 Improved breed of bees, 185 

 Inquiry, 188 

 Interference of common 



drones, 170 

 Introducing queens, 6, 40, 49, 



72, 210 

 Italian bee-breeding, 128 

 Italian bee quesiion. 138 

 Italian bees, 1, 31, 53, 75, 79, 



89, 100, 214 

 Italian bees in their natural 



home. 93, 170 

 Ila'inn bees, profits of, 117 

 Italian bees, purity of, 19, 51 

 Italian bees and red clover. 75, 



80, 92, 137, 154. 159, 100, 191, 

 Italian queens, 120 [240 



Italianizing, 40, 56, 110, 159 



