INDEX TO VOLUME YII. 

 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



A big frog !-tory 233. 



A few apiarian devices 36. 



A lady beginner's notes, No. 2, 14. 



A well assumed moral indifrnation 249. 



Age of tlie luinev bee 25. 



Albany Co., N. Y., bees in 110. 



Alleghany Co., Sid., bees in 64. 



Alley, Mr., business transactions of 62, 



75. 

 Alley's rejoinder 61. 

 Amateur l.i, 38, 76. 

 American hive 58. 

 Apiarist or apiarian 111. 

 Are artificial queens inferior to natural ? 



227, 267. 



Basswood beats the world 228. 



Bees, the "coming" 77. 



Bees, an hour among 78. 



Bees in college 116. 



Bees, the yellow and the black 68. 



Bees, improvement of 130. 



Bees, death in winter depository of 264. 



Bees without brood 132. 



Bees, to prevent robbing among 136. 



Bees, weight of the honey 97. 



Bee feeders 20, 159, 254. 



Bee hives, 120, 155, 253. 



Bee orch:ird, a 131. 



Bee culture, nomenclature in 50. 



Bee keeping in the West 65. 



Bee keeping and patents 8. 



Bee-keepers' conventions. 



Central Illinois Association 48. 



Central Iowa Association 244. 



Chautaugue Co. (N. Y.) Association 

 IDS, 283. 



Michigan Bee-keepers' Convention 

 101. 



Tennessee Apiarian Society 190. 



West St. Louis Co. ^Mo.) Associa- 

 tion 160. 



The Southern N. York and North- 

 ern Pennsylvania Association 2. 

 Bee stings, cure for 18, 118. 

 Beginner, notes from a 51. 

 Beginner, first report of a 140. 

 Berlepsch on movable frames 172. 

 Bethlehem, Iowa, report from 161. 

 Breeding, in-and-in 51. 



Canada, encouraging report from 56. 

 Chloroform and " blunders" 216. 

 Cincinnati, bee keeping around 19. 

 Comb, to prevent the breaking of 188. 

 Comb for new swarms 202. 

 Comb guide, the triangular 236, 

 Correspondence 22, 45, 46, 47, 48, 70, 94, 



95, 117, 142, 18.9, 234, 254. 

 Corresponding hives and queens, 185. 

 Crippled bees 87. 

 Cross-bred bees 149, 219. 

 Cursory remarks and observations 156. 



Debeauvoy's hive 197. 



Drone production 49. 



Dronings 148. 



Dried cow dung as a fumigator 268. 



Dysentery in bees 251. 



Dzierzon theory, test of the 118. 



Editorial 21, 45, 69, 93, 94, 116, 141, 151, 

 152, 158, 165, 166, 167, 168, 211, 237, 

 261, 283. 



Eggs, uon-hatcliing 96, 119, 133, 145. 



Fertilization, non-flying 177, 268. 



Fertilizing queen bees 88. 



Fertilizing queen bees in confinement 



252 

 Foul brood 124, 125, 126. 



Foreign bee journals, review of 258. 

 Frames, claims on 41. 

 Furman on Gallup 259. 



Gallup's new .=tyle hive 12. 

 Gallup upon H. A. King 256. 

 Grimm, A., gets a blowing up 226. 

 Glycerine balsam 44. 



Hartford, Wis., report from 191. 



Hazen's patent hive 7, 240. 



Hives, plain box 58. 



Hives, how to make supers 154, 



Hives, supers and nucleus 204. 



Hive, proposed improved 192. 



Hives at the Indianapolis convention, 



225. 

 Hive controversy 9, 39. 

 Honey, balsam of 31. 

 Honey bee, the age of 25. 

 Honey boxes, proper size of surplus 69, 



lo6. 

 Honey cask, timber for 183. 

 Honey dew 15, 49. 



Honey district, inquiries for a good 17. 

 Honey extractor 35, 154. 

 Honey extractor and strainer combined 



60. 

 Honey, extracted 79. 

 Honey in comb or extracted 154. 

 Honey poisonous SO. 

 Honey, production of 105. 

 Honey resources from a strange quarter 



115. 

 Hruscthka and the Italians 13. 

 Huber's unedited letteis 241, 265. 



Illinois, report from 55. 



Imported queens 236. 



Indiana, bee notes from 32, 91. 



Investigating, modes of 17. 



Introducing queens (see queens). 



Iowa, another beginner in 92. 



Iowa State Fair 106, 107. 



Iowa, notes from northern 161. 



Iowa, the season in 231. 



Italian bees, on pure 232. 



Italian vs. black bees 247. 



Italian bees not working in boxes 152. 



Italian bees at Cleveland convention 232. 



Italians in supers 209. 



Italian queen bees, purity of 10. 



Italian queens, color in 263. 



Kansas, letter from 34. 



Kentucky, notes from 18. 



Kentucky and Tennessee bee-keepers 126. 



Le Roy, (111.) report from 139. 

 Lessons of the past season 159. 

 Linden and buckwheat 116. 

 Louisiana, bees in 243. 

 Lucknow, Canada, bees at 215. 



Maine, a moan from 139. 

 Malt as a bee-food 271. 

 Melextractor 131. 

 Michigan, a trip to 103. 

 Michigan, the winter in 251. 

 Minnesota, letter from 18. 

 Mitchell & Co. reviewed 193, 

 Mjnarda Punctata 209. 

 Movable comb hives 57. 

 Movable frames 169, 170, 172. 



National Society of Beekeepers 203. 

 New Boston (HI.), report from 138. 

 New Jersey to New Hampshire, from 62. 

 Non-flying fertilization, 177, 210. 

 Notes of a beginner 182. 

 Novel bee dress 203. 



Novice 3, 6, 26, 51, 74, 99, 121, 179, 198, 



235, 256, 274. 

 Nucleus hives 242. 



Observations and reflections 137. 

 Oil region, the season in the 162. 

 Over-stocking with bees 175. 



Parricides 7 . 



Patent hives 40. 



Patents and patent hive inventions 81. 



Patent hive deceivers 82. 



Patent honey boxes 215. 



Personal 213. 



Pratt's Hollow (N. J.), report from 185. 



Prindle & Green hive 56. 



Purity, test of 89. 



Puzzle 164, 210. 



Queens 223. 



Queen, an ill-treated 93. 



Queens, breeding 12. 



Queens, fertility of 58, 67. 



Queens, raisini 14, 85, 100. 122, 12.3, 2.39. 



Queens raising on the outside of the hive 



14. 

 Queens, on introducing 10, 11, 43, 92, 95, 



96, 98, 1.50, 167, IS.i, 201, 269. 

 Queens, natural, hardy and prolific, 44, 



86, 112, 206, 278. 

 Queens, raising large reserve 73. 

 Queens, rearing artificial, and their value 



146. 

 Queens, drone layers from virgin 186. 

 Queens, winter-bred 191. 

 Queens piping 44. 



Queens, my experience with hybrids 230. 

 Queens and corresponding hives 185. 

 Queen nursery, "Novice's" 6. 

 Queen cells, a lage number 16, 273. 

 Queen cells and their contents 86. 

 Queen killing, 87. 

 Queen progeny of a failing queen 125, 



150, 152. 

 Queen bee laying in a queen cell 129. 

 Queen bee, the instinct of 200. 

 Queen mothers 147. 

 Queen nurseries 242. 

 Queenless colonie.-, on introducing young 



queens to 1. 

 Queenless colonies saved 29. 



Side opening hive wanted 228. 

 Six months of disaster 261. 

 Stocks in summer, removal of 231. 

 Sugar syrup for wintering bees 252. 

 Swarms, combs for new 202. 

 Swarm, why the bees did not 84. 

 Swarm, products of a 202. 

 Swarms condensing 269. 



Temporary bee room 210. 



Tennessee, a trip to, and back 30. 



Tennessee, a cheer from 32. 



Tennessee, the honey region of West 63. 



Tennessean, experience of a 63. 



Thomas' hive improvement 40. 



The twin hive as a uon-swarmer 200. 



Tomato honey 5. 



Triumph hive described 205. 



Transferring bees 115, 181, 275, 



Upward ventilation 202. 

 Useful suggestions 157. 



Wagner, Samuel, death of 211, 2.37. 

 Wasp.s, new mode of destroying 240. 

 Wayne Co., Ohio, bee notes from 64. 

 Wax, how to utilize 133. 

 West, bee-keeping in the 65. 

 West Virgiuia, letter from 34. 

 Wintering bees 199, 254. 

 Wool in the apiary 26 



