INDEX TO VOLUME VIII. 

 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Absconding swarms, how to catch 

 *08. 



Accidents insurance 93. 



Adair 186, 221, 242, 247. 



After-swarms, simple method of 

 preventing 39. 



A fit of rhyme 262. 



All old bees 247. 



Alternate generation and Parthe- 

 nogenesis in the animal king- 

 dom 193. 



American Bee-keeper's Guide 141. 



American Bee Journal 271. 



Annuals of bee culture 117. 



An Old Man's Views on Hives 274. 



Apiary, The 180. 



Apiaries in S.in Diego, Cal. 209. 



Appeal on behalf of Mrs. Tupper 

 237. 



Artificial vs. natural swarming, 34. 



Artificial honey 84. 



Artificial fertilization 144, 226. 



A trio of topics 225. 



Attack on North Am. B. K. Socie- 

 ty 258. 



August Journal 68. 



Basswood 4. 



Bay State Hive 128, 245. 



Bee-keeping 6. 



Beekeeping in Central 111. 16. 



Bee-keepers;' Association 173. 



Bee keeping 237. 



Bee-keeper persecuted 251. 



Bee-keeping in Iowa 230. 



Bee culture 23, 



Bee-stings, curious remedy for 27. 



Bee-hives, 34. 



Bee hunting in Australia 43. 



Bee-house, how to build a 76. 



Bee-stands and bottom-boards 214. 



Bee-stings, remedj for 227. 



Bee-disease 228. 



Bee culture vs. bee-keeping 252. 



Bee Journals, The It 5. 



Bees in Pella, Iowa 44. 



Bees and honey in France 47. 



Bee notes from Morrison, 111. 60. 



Bee notes from Oneida, 111. 71. 



Bees at Blue Knob, Pa. 114. 



Bees in Canada 120. 



Bees at Fulton, 111.140. 



Bees in New Hampshire 140. 



Bees in Minnesota 207. 



Bees and king-birds 230. 



Berlepsch declaration, the 18. 



Beginners warned 21. 



Benedict's plan of fertilization 220. 



Boxes, bees not working in 116. 



Bromo chloralum 45. 



Bruce, Canada, letter from 75. 



Broken comb 138. 



Brood, uncovered 253. 



British Bee Journal 263. 



Burying hives in snow 220. 



Caution 225. 



Canada Victor tomato 216. 



Central 111. B.K. Association^, 239. 



Chautauqua Co. bee-keepers 128. 



Chips 179. 



Chenova bee-keeper 183. 



Cheap hives 248, 254. 



Chicago Honey Market 284. 



Circular to bee-keepers 170. 



Comb closets 41. 



Comb, broken pieces of 138. 



Combs, fastening 6S. 



Coming bive, the 220. 



Complaint 229. 



Color of Italian queens 2. 



Controlling fertilization 38. 



Correspondence 48, 70, 117, 141. 



Central B. K. Iowa Association 65. 



Cloth honey-board 87. 



Conventions, advice about 69. 



Cold, how bees defend themselves 



from 95. 

 Cotvin, the late Richard 200,236, 263 

 Common sense 218. 

 Cross-Italians 262. 

 Cullingsfrom "Gleanings" 171. 



Dadant 49, 85, 184, 208, 231, 256. 

 Day with Novice 67. 

 Dark-colored queens 223 

 December Journal 172, 211. 

 Defective queens 33. 

 Dronii gs 3, 92, 122. 

 Drones, utility of'62. 

 Dysentery 96, 201. 



Eggs in queen cells 9. 

 Estimates, a few 10. 

 Extraordinary sagaMty in bees 3. 

 Extracted honey 137, 215. 

 Explanation 188. 

 Exploring beed-om 260. 

 Extravagant praise ton ed do wn 263. 



Fastening combs 63. 

 Failure, My 88. -"^ 



Fertilization controlled 38, 144. 

 Fertilization in confinement 144. 

 Feeding bees 224. 

 Fling at apiculture 237. 

 Foul brood 170, 252, 267. 

 Freak in bee culture 36. 

 From the South "-40. 

 From Missouri 273. 



Gallup's reply to Furman 41. 

 Gallup's bees, how they wintered 74. 

 Gallup 175, 215,264. 

 German laws about bees 264. 

 Gleanings in bee culture 171. 

 Good bee feeder 213. 

 Graddenhuttcn, O., letter from 87. 

 Grimm on Furman 190. 



Hazen, 143, 219. 



Hint from the Old Country 83. 



Hives, something about 234, 281. 



Honey dew 17. 



Honey, what is 36. 



Honey, extracting in cold weather 



38. 

 Honey, yield in Milledgeville,Ill. 64. 

 Honey, as a food and as a medicine 



97. 

 Honey as a medicine 210. 

 Honey marketing 218. 

 Honey jars 264. 

 Hosmer 187. 



How to Rob Bee Hives 276. 

 Huber, letters of 1, 25. 



Improved hive 5. 



Imprudence of bee-keeping 9, 60, 



127. 

 Improvement suggested 178. 

 Improvements in A.. B. J ■ 189. 

 Improved breeds of bees 242. 272. 

 Instinct in bees 7. 

 Introducing queens P8, 206. 

 In the apiar>, July 4th 129. 

 Intelligent bee-keeping 188. 

 Informal ion wanted 229. 

 Information given 264. 

 "Inter-Ocean," The 191. 

 Iowa Bee-keepers' Association 173. 

 Iowa, bee keeping in 230. 

 Italian vs. black bees 19, 28. 

 Italian bee 247, 262. 

 Italian bee, importation of 256. 



July number 47. 

 Judicious Feeding 276. 



Kansas, letter from 132. 

 Kansas bee-hive 239. 

 Kleiuburg, bees at_134. 



Langstroth hive 33. 

 Langstroth's patent suit 213. 

 Langstroth, death of Mrs. 213. 

 Langstroth 228, 263. 

 Last words about Bay State hire 



245. 

 Letter from Bruce, Canada 75. 

 Lessons of the past winter 261. 

 Linden, The 90. 

 Loss of bees in 1872 115. 



Management for Inck 35. 

 Marblehead squash 216. 

 Marketing honey 218. 

 Miller and his wife in trouble 58._ 

 Michigan Bee-keepers' Association 



106. 

 Minnesota, bees in 207. 

 Mortality of bees in Illinois 60. 

 Monarda Punctata 90. 

 Mrs. Tupper's loss 263. 

 Mutiny among bees 96. 

 My uncapping instrument 67. 



