1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPKR. 



367 



The Porter Spring Escape, 



The Busy Bee, 



Transferring, - -— 



The Past and Present of Bee-Keep- 



ing, 



The Carolinian liees, their color, itc 



The Season in Florida, 



The Amount of Honey Required to 

 Winter a Colony of Bees, 



The Uniting of Colonies — Humane 

 Bee-Keeping, 



The Economic Value of Bees and 

 Their Product, 



Using Empty Combs, 



United States Association of Bee- 

 Keepers' Societies, 



Wintering Bees in Box Hives, 



What is Indicated by Color in Ital- 

 ian Bees, 



Will Good Years Come No More ''... 



Will the Good Year Come Again ?.. 



Wax Experiments — Methods of 

 Rendering, Quantity and Quality 



What to Do with Weak Colonies 

 Late in the Season,.. 



Wide Frames with Separators, 



Wintering, 



Wintering Bees Successfullj', 



46 



90 



115 



123 

 186 

 244 



245 



280 



338 

 177 



119 



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8 

 12 

 56 



190 



273 

 275 

 305 

 340 



Index to Contributors. 



PAGE. 



Assistant Editor, 340 



Abbott, L. F 310 



Aspinwall, L. A 280 



Abbott, Emerson T. ...186, 213, 247 



Amos, A. G 214 



Adams, H. & W. J 214 



Axtell, L. C 185 



Aikin, R. C...... 190 



Bankston, C. B.- 123 



Bond, EUwood 41 



Brown, J. P H. 8 



Brice, H. W. 10 



Bennett, S. K. 246 



Byers, Miss Anita 214 



Brica, Henry W 220 



Bish, Edwin 184 



Cook, Prof. A. J.... 87, 155, 347 



Cole, Mrs. Oliver 4, 53, 277 



Crane, J. E. 58 



Common, J. R ., 306 



Coleman. H. F 188 



Doolittle. (J. M. 51, 149, 115, 122, 34. .307, 



275, 241, 210. 217 



Davis, W. .1., 2n(l .83, 243, 179 



Dibbern, C. H 56 



Dadant, C. P 282. 3.38 



Elwood, P. H. 41 



Evans, W. M. 183 



Fox, Elias 219 



Grahame, Wilder 1 



Gates, John F. 7, 35, 81, 117. 337 



Gibson, Jas. E 55 



Greiner, F. 90 



Gray, Geo. R 85 



Gathright. AV. C 284 



Gemmill, F. A. 314 



Hill, H. E 7. 83, 146, 244, 306 



Harrison, Mrs. L 55, 85 



Hallock, N 145 



Hains, J. B 279 



Howe, Harvey 313 



Jolley, Ed. 3, 54, 'l24, 212 



Loan Bros, 40 



Miller, Dr. C. C 12, 40, 120, 345 



Morse, W. H 60 



McNally, Wm 1 .36 



Marks, W. F 54,49, 119, 147 



Morrison, W. R 154 



Moore, E. W. 153, 285 



Marioneaux, O. 184 



Mead, Chas. J 309 



Newton, H. F 279 



Olmstead Bros 55 



Putnam, Bessie L. 113 



Pike, E. L. 184 



Rouse, J. W 214 



Roese, Stephen. 274 



Root, E. R. 341 



Smith, A. L 86 



Skaggs, L. L. 151 



Snell, F. A..;. 2.V2 



Stell, W. M. 250 



Sleeper, Sidney 246 



Staples, L. 278 



Thies, Chas. H. 6, 34, 84, 118, 145. 211, 



245, 274, 306, 340 



Tubbs, G. F. 309 



Watson, A. D 184 



"Wright, H. R 279 



Whitcomb, E. 312 



Zigler, C. F. 215 



