premium offered 165. 



prevention of dysentery 145. 



Professor alive 176. 



Prolific queens 106, 174 . 



Propolis 100. 



Dr. Preuss on foulbrood 141, 205. 



Price's square frame hive 86. 



Puff-ball smoke 33, 100, 239. 



Pure fertilization 31, 37, 47, 90, 205. 



Purity of Italian queens 244. 



Queen raising 233. 



Queens 199. 



Queens by mail 112, 130 . 



Queens, diminutive 16. 



Queen, fecundity of 30 



Queen hatching 234. 



Queen hunting 232. 



Queens, introducing 16. 



Queens, loss of 100. 



Queens, laying drone and worker 



eggs 219. 

 Queens mating twice 20, 56, 110, 



140, 238. 

 Queens, prolific and long-lived 106, 



174. 

 Queens, pure fertilization of 31, 37, 



47,90,205. 

 Queens, renewing 116. 

 Queens, reserve 41. 

 Queens, superseding 9. 

 Queens, to Dreed from 175. 

 Queens, two in one hive 53, 100. 

 Queens and workers 117 . 

 Queens, wintering reserve 99. 

 Queer queen 118. 

 Queries, 186. 



Querist's questions answered 207. 

 Question to Novice 100. 

 Questions from England 209. 

 Questions answered 213. 

 Questions by Querist 148, 207. 

 Questions and facts 172. 



Rational bee-culture 147 . 

 Eaw pollen 3 



Rectangular frame hive 114 . 

 Red clover 65, 73. 

 Red clover honey 197 . 

 Rejoinder by Gallup 92. 

 Remarks and notes 97, 186. 



Remarks on bee disease 209. 

 Removing bees 235. 

 Renewing queens 116. 

 Reply from Novice 120. 

 Reply to H. Rosenstiel243. 

 Reply to J. H. Thomas 220. 

 Reproduction of bees lSf. 

 Response to inquiries 34. 

 Reserve queens 41, 99. 

 Results of wintering 232. 

 Reverses, Novice's 212. 

 Ruchee 91 . 

 Rye and oat meal 158, 230. 



Sainfoin, 26 62, 91. 



Saliva bees, 197. 



Scarcity of honey 33, 118, 147. 



Scotch method of pure fertilization 



32. 

 Sending queens by mail 238. 

 Several inquiries 224. 

 Several items from Novice 191. 

 Several things considered 193. 

 Shallow hives 40, 68, 78, 91. 

 Shape and size of hives 125, 127. 

 Side opening hive 74. 

 Singular case 200. 

 Singular disease of bees 106. 

 Size of hives 202. 

 Size of honey bees 66. 

 Small queens 16. 

 Smoker, a new 151. 

 Solvent of wax or propolis 20 . 

 Sorghum as bee food 148 . 

 Square frame movable, comb hive 



86. 

 Starch sugar 29 . 

 Sting of the bee 48, 107, 180. 

 Stocks, multiplication of 133 

 Straight combs 90. 116, 185. 

 Straining honey and wax 159. 

 Straw movable comb hives 38, 160. 

 Substitute for honey 53, 89. 

 Sundry suggestions 139. 

 Superseding queens 9. 

 Surplus honey 226. 

 Surrejoinder 114 . 

 Swarming 52. 

 Swarms, early 40. 

 Swarming, unprepared 60 

 Swarms and honey product 74 



Swarms natural, artificially pro- 

 duced 11, 16. 



Swarm on a lamp-post 28. 



Swarming extraordinary 196. 



Swarming, improved method of 

 170,224. 



Swarming artificial 180, 225. 



Tallow, for honey board 29. 



Temperature for brooding 168. 



Tennessee Apiarian Society 74. 



That Reply (?) 213. 



Theorv, new and curious 193 . 



Toads 79. 



To get bees out of honey boxes 159, 



209, 242. 

 Tomato honey 67. 

 Top boxes 98. 

 Transferring bees 7 . 

 Triangular hive 14. 

 Triangular guide strips 66. 

 Tulip trees 59. 



Unprepared swarming 60. 

 Upward ventilation 183. 



Value of pollen or meal 197. 

 Various items 131. 

 Various things 194. 

 Various topics 9 . 

 Varronian theory 50. 

 Ventilation 8. 149, 183, 200, 230. 

 Vicious bees 79. 



What will I do ? 165. , 



Wild bees 9, 68. 



Wings of bees 95. 



Wintering bees 38, 64, 69, 70, 72, 92, 

 109, 113, 116, 12S, 131, 152, 157, 169, 

 190, 198, 225, 227, 228, 229, 232. 



Wintering in paper hives 233. 



Wintering reserve queens 99,226. 



Wintering, results of 232. 



Worker comb 96, 132, 152. 



Workers fertile 85 . 



Workers reared in drone cells 140 . 



Workers and queens, 117 . 



Young Italian bees 40. 



Young queens, drones from 117. 



IISriDEX: TO OOIR-IRESIPOISnDIEilJNTTS- 



A 108; Adair D. L. 66; Alley H. 69, 192, 215; Aucham- 

 paughB. C. 240. 



B 194; Babcock B. F. 19; Baldridge M. M. 70, 90, 149, 

 186; Baldwin A. A. 224; Barnes W. A. 33, 97; Beebe J. 

 M. 150; Belmont 190; Benedict A. A. 220; Bernard Dr. 

 H. C. 50, 167; Berlepsch Baroness L. von 81, 207, 236; 

 BickfordR. 39, 96, 109, 159; Biglow C. B. 76; Bingham 

 T. F. 14, 116 ; Blumhoff Dr. 83: BohrerDr. G. 39, 239; 

 Briar 180; Brundage A. J. 70; Bullard J. 146. 



Carpenter C . 29 ; Carr W . 84 ; Cary W . W . 186 ; Conant 

 C. 38;Condit W. C. 29; Conklin Dr. A. V. 114, 187; 

 Crathorne F. 150; Crist H. 149; Culver J. L. 129; Cun- 

 ningham W . F . 155 . 



DadantC. 13.27, 57, 78, 79,91, 147, 167, 168, 169, 180, 

 220 ; Davis Dr . J . 52, 71, 105, 119, 172, 188, 231, 243 ; Davis J . 

 L. 140; Davis W. J. 198; Dunlavy B. B. 40. 



Fairbanks L. C. 53, 116;Faul H. 16,112; Flory Rev. 

 J. S. 59; Francis L. C. 52, 74; Ford, J. A. 21*. 



Gallup E. 5, 8, 9, 11, 31, 34, 40, 90, 92, 106, 119, 128, 133, 

 145, 152. 154, 170, 176, 181, 196, 209, 214, 233, 234 ; Gardner 

 J. R. 63. 68, 229; Gregg J. L. 14; Grimm A. 159, 199, 200, 

 240. 



Hamlin T. B. 38; Hart A. H. 127; Hastings C. 233; 

 Hazen J. 7, 88; Helm J. C. 169; Henchen W. 38. 160; 

 Hill T.C.236; Hipolite Dr. W. W.48; Howe Dr. G. 

 242; Howe M. O. 107 ; Hubbard J. L. 36, 38, 59, 144, 192, 

 200 ; Hunter J . W . 87 ; Hussey J . 178 . 



King H. B. 68; Kirkpatrick D. L. 172. 



Langstroth J. T. 72, 152, 213, 218; Lattner P. 232; 

 Leav J. W. 139; Libbev H. SO. 



Marvin J. M. 115, 116, 140, 193; May S. 151; Mayfield 

 J. W. 100; McFatridgeP. W. 38;McGawT. G. 33; Mc- 

 Lav J . 124 ; McLean J. L. 175; McMullenJ. 163, 193; 

 Miller E. H. 118; MillerR. 199; Miner F. H. 183; Miner 

 H. i>. 40, 80, 215, 231 ; Moore C. B. 172; Munson & Wil- 

 ley 36; Murphy R. R. 53. 



Nesbit H. 20, 156, 213. 224 240. 



Paine C. S. 65; Palmer M. G. 157: Parker Dr. S. J. 

 131; Peabodv J. L. 244; Pond J. E. Jr. 110, 238: Pouns- 

 fort J. 16; Price J. M. 16, 53, 54, 59, 60, 65, 86, 89, 120, 

 125, 132. 146; Puckett Dr. B. 78, 114, 168, 216, 237. 



QuinbyM. 184,185. 



Replogle S. B. 55; Rice J. L. 219; Rodgers C. 114; 

 Root A. I. 63, 179: Rose J . T. 112, 156. 230;RosenstielH. 

 69; Russell, Rev. P. R. 98, 134, 170. 180, 239. 



Salisbury A. 100, 116; See H. S. 233; Shulze E. 58; 

 SilsbeeG.S. 28; Singleton W. Y. 9, 99; Smith C. T. 

 222; Smith J. H. 52; Smith M. 196; Stickney R. 33; 

 Stratton W. M. 228; Strickland G. 196; S. W. 242; 

 Sweet W. O. 242. _ 



Taylor C . 244 ; Thorne C. E. 120, 160, 220; Thomas H. 

 M.36; Thomas J. H. 18, 54, 219, 227, 231, 243, 244: 

 TownleyJ. H. 18, 71, 85, 94, 165, 189, 233; Truesdell 

 Rev. J. W. 73,77, 149,210. 



Wallace J. W. 54: Wedge J. C. 214; Wheaton Rev. 

 L. 194; Whiting L. C. 9: White J. W. 54: Wilkin R. 20: 

 Willey A . G . 74, 9*, 171 ; Winfield J . 40 ; Wolf W . 57, 59, 

 99, 10b, 127, 196; Woodbury T. W. 124, 141, 233,236; 

 WorthingtonD. M. 53. 



