1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



237 



Page. 



Setting Foundation, An Aid in 189 



Shall Honey-producers Buy or Rear Their 



Oueens? 63 



Singular Battle, A 26 



So Say We 11 



South Dakota Bee-Keepers 57 



Spring Feeding Unprofitable 206 



Stimulative Feeding 166 



Storage Rack 69 



Spraying Again 79 



"Stray Straws" 185 



Strength of Colonies 85 



Supersedure, A Case of 51 



Superseding, Etc 112 



Swarthmore Apiaries, The 43 



"The Life of the Bee" 202 



There are No Queen-breeders 161 



Tidiness in the Hive 212 



Tobacco Smoke for Introducing Queens.. 15 



Told by a Man from Texas 10 



Tongue-reach 77 



Trouble in Rochester 180 



Uncapped Section Honey 184 



U. D. Queen-rearing and Nursery Cage, 



The 42 



Unpainted Hives 1. 86, 122,165 



Uniting Bees 103 



Utter Foolishness 18 



Wake Up 72 



Want Relief from Busy Bees 135 



Wax Extractors 99 



Wax "Secret," The 15 



Weak Colonies in the Spring 47 



Yellow Wax and Slow Cooling 12 



West Florida, Bee-keeping in 7 



What to Do 4 



White Clover and Saw Palmetto 162 



Wintering Bees in Canada 166 



Won One on Number One 53 



Yellow Wax Discussion, The 134 



$200 Queens 119, 161 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



A New Drone Catcher 70 



Arthur C. Miller 21 



G. M. Doolittle 1 



Apiary of Mr. Herman 143,151 



Employees of W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co 34 



F. G. Herman 194 



Factory of W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co 9 



Ferris Wax Extractor 88, 89 



Goldenrod 221 



House Apiary of F. G. Herman 125 



Hill's Queen and Drone Traps 6 



Leaves and Bloom of Saw Palmetto 121 



Maurice Maeterlinck 203 



Officers, Cayuga County Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation 164 



Ruins of a Bear Raid 216, 217 



Swarthmore and His Apiary 52 



U. D. Queen Nursery 44 



Uncapping Honey 170 



W. S. Hart 81 



Wax Refiner 90, 91 



Wax Ready for Crating 90 



\V. H. Pridgen 101 



W. F. Marks 114 



CONTRIBUTORS. 



.\lley, Henry 

 Brown, W. J. 

 Barber, T. H. 

 Chase, S. 

 Castle, Ida M . 

 Cumber, A. Q. 

 Doolittle, G. iVL 

 "Enterprise." 

 Freeman, Willis H. 

 Feathers Porter A. M 

 Ferris, C. G. 



Jameson, H. M. 

 Kernan, Wm. 

 Kerr, L. E. 

 Lind, M. H. 

 McNeal, W. W. 

 Mobley, Geo. H. 

 Miller, Arthur C. 

 Miller, Dr. C. C. 

 Norton, D. B. 

 Parker, J. W. 

 Poppleton, O. O. 



Greiner, F. 

 Greiner,, G. C. 

 Gray, A. J. 

 Getaz, Adrian 

 Grimsley, J. O. 

 Hardscrabble, John 

 Hart, W. S. 

 Howard, C. B. 

 Herring, Rev. C. M. 

 Head, W. E. 

 Heffner, H. 

 Haight, E. J. 

 Herman, F. G. 

 Heath, J. F. 

 Johnson, A. E. 

 Johnson, J. H. 



Pridgen, W. H. 

 Putnam, Bessie L. 

 Parker, C. W. 

 Ouirin, H. G. 

 Rogers, H. J. 

 Reeve, M. F. 

 Smith, Harry L. 

 Stevens, N. L. 

 Simpson, Frederick B 

 Saunders, Geo., Jr. 

 "Swarthmore." 

 Shepherd, M. W. 

 Shephard, W. W. 

 Stephenson, W. T. 

 Smith, Mrs. Sarah A. 

 Walton, W. D. 



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