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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



December 



Index to Volume VI. 



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81 



INDI'X OF SUBJECTS. 



A Nepoleonic Method, 



A Few Health}' Don'ts for Beginners 



A Visit With a Neighbor, ,_. 



About Bees and Bee-Keeping, 9 



A New Super, 



Apis Dorsata and Other Bees, '.-. 



A Few Remarks On Bee-Keeping,.. 



A Flower Garden for Bees, 113 



Apis Dorsata and Other Things, 153 



At what age do Bees gather Honey, 242 



A Swarming Time, 306 



A Few Remarks, 340 



Bees and Chickens, 53, 118 



Box Hives as Breeders, 83 



Bee-Forage — Some Important Sug- 

 gestions, 87 



Breeding and Improvement, 120 



Building Up Weak Colonies, 181 



Bee-keepers not Sutfering from over- 

 production of the Honey Product, 188 



Bees Moving Eggs, 212 



Bees Not Working in Sections, 217 



Bees ! Bees ! Bees ! 274 



Bees and Grapes — Some Expert Tes- 

 timony, 282 



Bee-Keeping in New Mexico, 284 



Correspondence, 40 to 41, 55, 85, 86, 

 120, 185, 214, 246, 279, 309 



Criminal Bees, __ 42 



Carolinian Bees, 123 



Confining Bees, 145 



Crimson Clover, 278 



Curing Foul Brood, 307 



Cleaning PoUenized Brood Combs, 314 



Does Bee-Keeping Pay, 35 



Editorials, 14, 15, 44, 45, 46, 62, 63, 

 64, 94, 95, 127, 128, 157, 192, 223, 

 224, 255, 287, 317, 351 



Foul Brood, 316 



Gravenhorst and Apis Dorsata, 37 



Hives, 57 



How Swarming is Conducted, 210 



Hunting Wild Bees — An Experience 215 



Honey as Food and Medicine, 219 



How to Avoid Winter Losses, 277 



How to Avoid Fall Feeding and keep 



Down Increase, 306 



How to Destro}' Mice in a Bee-honse 43 



Importation of Apis Dorsata, 147 



Improvement of the Italian Bee, ... 179 



Introducing Queens, 209, 



Importance of Watering in the 

 Apiary, 



Improvements in Bee Culture, 



Laws of Breeding, 



Literary, 13, 39, 41, 61, 93, 126, 148, 

 158, 191, 222, 256, 286 



Locating an Out-Yard, 



Miscellaneous, 16 to 31, 65 to 79, 96 

 to HI, 129 to 142, 159 to 174, 193 

 205, 225 to 238, 257 to 269, 289 to 

 302, 320 to 334, 353 to 365 

 Market Report, 31, 47, 61, 112, 143, 

 175, 206, 238, 270, 304, 335, 368 



Many Bees, Much Honey 



Modern vs. Antideluvion Progres 



sion or Retrogression, Which 



Managing Swarms Having Queens 



witli Clipped Wings, 



More About Virgins, 



Marketing Honey to the Best Ad- 

 vantage, 



My Early Experiences, 



Notes and Comments, ' 



Nectar and Its Secretion, 



Numbering Hives, 



Notes from Vii-gil — Something His- 

 torical, 247, 248, 



Ontario County Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, Annual Meeting,. 



Our Business, .._ 



Open Letter to Bee-Keepers of tlie 



United States, 



President's Address to Ont. Co., N. 



Y., Bee-Keepers. Association, 



Painted vs. Unpainted Hives, 



Poisonous honey-Do bees gather it. 



Poisonous Honey,.. 145, 



Preparing for Winter, 



Queens, 



Random Notes and Comments, 



Successful Bee-Keeping, 



Selling Honey, 



Sometliing of My Management in 



the Apiary, .. 



Some Bee Notes from California,.. 

 Some Common Mistakes of Bee- 

 Keepers, , 



Shipping Comb Honej' Safely b}' 



Freight, If You Have Any, 



Supplying the Home Honey market, 

 Supersedure of Queens, 



213 



312 

 341 

 847 



313 



33 



146 



149 

 151 



310 

 337 



r, 83 



60 

 243 



249 



42 



47 



54 



49 

 51 



124 

 250 

 285 

 215 

 183 

 35 

 84 



90 

 15 



152 



246 

 252 

 345 



