IV 



INDEX. 



New hire, Novice's 114. 



New contributor 222. 



New idea, Novice and 130. 



Novice 15, 29, 50, 73, 121, 133, 169, 

 198, 217, 241, 265. 



Northwestern Ohio, notes from 88. 



November Journal 142,202. 



North American Bee-keepers' So- 

 ciety 144, 145, 258. 



Nothing from Nothing 188. 



Northeastern Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion 202. 



Non-6warmers 249. 



Nucleus hive6 251. 



October Journal 118. 



Of the bees that were, etc. 236. 



Old Country, hint from 83. 



Old bee theory 248. 



One-story hives 11. 



One-story hives vs. two-story 63. 



Our reception 191. 



Olir question department 250. 



Petitions, how maufactured 57. 

 Patent composition for stupefying 



bees 69. 

 Patent hives and bee journals 119. 

 Parthenogenesis, 183. 

 Polk Co. B. K. Association 245. 

 Postage on queens 246. 

 Prof. Porter, letter from 93. 

 Profit of four swarms 188. 

 Proceedings of N. A. B. K. So 



ciety 237. 



Queens, natural, hardy and prolific 



Queenlessness in box-hives 31. 

 Queens, defective 33. 

 Queens, iutroducing 88. 

 Queens, dark eolored 223. 



Query and remarks 67. 

 Questions to Novice 96. 

 Questions.anbwered 143. 

 Queer trait in bees 143 

 Questions for Gallup 187. 

 Question department 190, 250. 

 Questions and answers 237. 

 Quarles, fragment from 240. 

 Quinby 252. 



Rape as a honey plant 251. 

 Reports from bee-keepers 21, 45, 60, 



68, 71, 90, 91, 96, 117, 120, 177, 180, 



212, 232, 255, 282. 

 Requisition to W. F. Clarke 169. 

 Regulations German about bees 264. 

 Recollections and Results 271. 

 Rheumatism and bee-stings 96. 

 Rhyme, a fit of 262. 

 Risky experiment 207. 



Salutatory 168. 

 San Diego, Cal., bees in 209. 

 Scholtz's plan of wintering 183. 

 Season in Virginia 63. 

 Season at Binghampton72. 

 September Journal 94. 

 Seasonable hints to bee-keepers 253. 

 Sending Queens by Mail 277. 

 Shall I go into bee-keeping 259. 

 Simplicity simplified 248. 

 Smallest bee-keepers' marriage 69. 

 South, wintering, bees at 225 

 Something about hives 234, 284. 

 South, from the 240. 

 Spring-feeding 40. 

 Spiders 143. 

 Stupefying bees 69. 

 Straight combs, how to have 131. 

 Successful destruction 8. 

 Summer in Orchard, Iowa, 64. 



Supers 64. 

 Sugar-syrup 91. 

 Surplus boxes 174. 

 Sundries 199, 226. 252. 

 Surplus Queens 274. 

 Swarm, early 72. 

 Swarm, Lew way of hiving 72, 

 Swarm, hiving a 97, 227. 

 Sweet home, chips from 114. 



Texas Bee Association 72. 



Tennessee Apiarian Society 120. 



Things of real merit 61. 



The February Journal 277. 



The Origin of the Honey Bee 278. 



Topics, a trio of 



To the Persecuted Bee Keeper 275. 



Transferring bees 10, 64, 229. 



Transfer of American Bee Journal 



168. 

 Ti avel in Italy 184, 208, 231. 

 Tupper, appeal on behalf of Mrs, 



239. 



Uncapping combs 67, 93, 95. 

 Uncovered brood 253. 



Various items 40. 

 Varieties 129. 



Wagner, letter from G. S. 236. 

 Walled In 270. 

 Who is to Blame 281. 

 What I saw last June 277. 

 Wintering bees 8, 22, 34, 53, 76, 78, 



93, 175, 178, 183, 225, 250. 

 Wintering be^s in small colonies 14. 

 Wire fastening for combs 226. 

 Wooden Vessels for Bees 270. 



Yield in Bethlehem 66 



