Index to Volume IV.-American Bee Journal. 



Aeassiz Prof. 'and Mrs. 48. 



Albino queen 224. 



All worker comb 96, 132, 153, 158. 



Alsike clover 33, 36, 55, 87, 189. 



Anecdote 8. 



Another honey plant 137. 



Another mishap 67. 



Antennae, loss of 80. 



Antidote for bee stings 239. 



Aphis honev 195. 



Artificial swarming 11, 16, 20, 180, 

 225, 233. 



Association, Northwestern Bee- 

 keepers' 56. 



Atmospheric changes 176. 



Australia, bees in 223. 



Barren queens 243. 



Bee-bob, Kodelspergers' S7. 



Bee books 90. 



Bee botanv 178. 



Bee-culture 1, 21, 31, 61, 161. 



Bee disease 138, 155, 156, 164, 167, 



172, 198, 209, 218, 219, 220. 

 Bee feed 149. 

 Bee feeder, 16. 17. 53, 54. 99. 105, 



120. 180, 217. 

 Bee feeding Si, 65, 132. 

 Bee flowers 8. 

 Bee glue 100. 

 Bee hives 71, 194. 

 Beekeepers, caution to 175. 

 Beekeepers' convention 225. 

 Beekeepers, items for 15. 

 Bee management 5, 11. 

 Bee muss 192. 

 Bee pasturage 188. 189, 226. 

 Bee plants 5, 52. 192. 

 Bee stings 239. 

 Beginner, experience of, 235. 

 Bees and blossoms 128. 

 Bees and fruit 18. 

 Bees disappearing 167. 

 Bees, discolored 71. 

 Bees Egyptian 18. 

 Bees fighting 88. 

 Bees, how to save, 234. 

 Bees hybrid 107. 

 Bees in Australia 223. 

 Bees in Minnesota 134, 216. 

 Bees in Mississippi 217. 

 Bees in Missouri, 14. 

 Bees in Tennessee 20. 

 Bees in war 39. 

 Bees Mexican 24. 

 Bees not dormant 39. 

 Bees, removing 235. 

 Bees, respiration of 13. 

 Bees' saliva 197. 

 Bees, transferring 7. 

 Bees, wintering 3 



116, 128, 131, 152. 



225, 227. 



Birds and bees in Louisiana, 242. 

 Bleaching wax 29, 47. 

 Borage 191. 

 Brood, cost of 215. 

 Brooding temperature 168. 

 Brown honey cake 77. 



Camphor, to stop robbing 200. 

 Can bees be poisoned ? 199. 

 Candid confessions 170. 

 Candied honey 219. 

 Cape of Good Hope, bees from 125. 

 i iapture of queen aud fertile work- 

 ers 146. 



Cause of bee disease 218. 

 Caution to beekeepers, 175, 178. 

 Cleome intesrrifolia 192. 

 Cost of brood 215. 

 Closed top frames 51, 52, 74. 

 Clover alsike 33, 36, 53, 87. 

 Clover red 65, 136, 196, 197. 

 Color of Italian bees 110, 129. 

 Colonies, drone-breed' ng, 4-5 

 Comb guides 66. 



, 69, 70, 72, 109, 

 157, 169, 190, 198, 



Comb straight 90, 116. 

 Common failures 119. 

 Convention of German beekeepers 



161, 201. 

 Corrections and explanations 200. 

 Criticism 48. 

 Crooked combs 80, 244. 

 Cure for bee stiugs 89. 



Dark honey 89. 



Darmstadt Convention 101, 201. 



Dathe's method 32. 



Death from a bee-sting 48. 



Diamond movable comb hive 187. 



Discolored bees 71. 



Disease among bees 11, 12. 120, 138, 



155, 156. 164, 165. 166, 167, 172, 198. 



204. 

 Dividing bees 90, 116, 185, 186. 

 Drone breeding colonies 46, 227, 243 . 

 Drone comb 80. 

 Drones 8, 171, 214 . 

 Drones, late reared 68 . 

 Drones from young queens 171 . 

 Durant's patent hive 223. 

 Dysentery or no dysentery 216. 

 Dysentery, prevention of 145. 

 Dzierzon "theory 222, 243. 



Early swarms 40. 



Economic hive 210, 244. 



Editorial, 17. 37, 55, 75, "76, 95, 117, 



118. 137, 138, 157, 177, 197, 221, 241. 

 Esparcette 26, 62. 118. 

 Exodus of honey bees, 138. 

 Experience of a beginner 235. 

 Experience in Italianizing No. iv. 



108. 

 Explanation 200. 

 Extraordinary swarming 196 . 



Facts 135 . 



Facts and questions 172 . 

 Facts for beemen 220. 

 Failures, common 119. 

 Fecundity of the queen bee 30. 

 Feeding bees 150, 169, 177. 

 Feeding meal 3. 158, 177, 230. 

 Fertile workers 85, 227. 

 Fertilization, pure 31, 37, 47, 90, 



205. 

 Fighting bees 88. 

 Flanders vs. Gallup 136. 

 Form of hives 152, 202. 

 Foulbrood 81, 101, 121, 141, 219, 226. 

 Futter's method 32. 



Gallup's rejoinder 92, 214. 



Gallup on the Langstroth hive 237 . 



German Beekeepers' Convention 



161,201. 

 Getting bees out of honey boxes 



159, 209, 242. 

 Gohde's method 32. 



Hamburg brown honey cake 77 



Hatching queens 233. 



Hive, convenient 54. 



Hive, Durant's 223. 



Hive, economic 210, 214. 



Hive, Eureka 173 . 



Hive, triangular 14. 



Hives and wintering 113. 



Hives, packing 115. 



Hives, patented and other 96. 



Hives, shape and size of 125. 



Hives, queens, and pollen substi- 

 tute 150. 



Honey bee, mathematics of the 15. 



Honey dew 89, 119, 160. 



Honey emptying machine 58, 59, 

 76,134,144, 179, 180,224. 



Honey from red clover 197 . 



Honey ill-flavored 112. 



Honey mart 47. 



Honey n!antl37. 



Honev product 74 . 



Honey, qualities and properties 23. 



Honey scarcity of 33. 110. 



Honey substitute 53, 89. 



Honey surplus 226. 



Honey for wintering 114. 



Honor to whom honor 185. 



How I became an apiculturist 27, 



78. 

 How to save bees 231 . 

 Hunting queens 233. 

 Hunting wild bees 9, 68. 



Ill-flavored honey 112. 

 Ill-tempered bees 77. 

 Imbedded bees 79. 

 Impregnation of young queens 65. 

 Improved method of swarming 



170,224. 

 Inquiries and responses 34. 

 Inquiries, several 224. 

 Instinct 171 . 

 Introducing queens 16, 157, 201, 



226, 240. 

 Italian bees 40, 115. 

 Italian bees, color of 110 . 

 Italian bees, purity of 57, 84. 

 Italian queens 90, 244 . 

 Items for beekeepers 15. 

 Items from Novice 191 . 

 Items, various 131, 219. 



Kentucky bee disease 164. 



Kidder's reply, &c, 195, 213, 214. 



Kingbirds 65,199. 



Kohler's process for pure fertiliza- 

 tion 31. 



Kruger's process for pure fertiliza- 

 tion 32, 47. 



Langstroth hive 91, 178, 215. 



Letter from Italy 83. 



Letter from Maine 28. 



Ligurian bees 84, 124, 127. 



Linden trees 91. 

 I Long-lived queens 106. 



Loss of bees 164, 242. 

 I Loss of queens 100. 



Mail, sending queens by 112,130. 

 Management and hives 60, 181 . 

 Markings of bees 199. 

 Mart, for honey and wax 47. 

 Mead, Queen Elizabeth's 49. 

 Meal feeding 3, 158, 177, 197. 

 Melilot clover 70, 189. 

 Mellextractor 91 . 

 Mice 70. 



Michigan, the season in 94. 

 Mismanagement 181 . 

 More of the bee disease 172 . 

 Moth worms 59. 

 * Multiplication of stocks 133. 



Natural artificial swarming 11 



Necessity of ventilation 149. 



New hive 184. 



New smoker 151 . 



Non-swarming 58, 88. 



Notes and remarks 97. 



Novice 3, 35, 63, 113, 120, 178, 191, 



212. 

 Novice, question to 100. 



Oat and rye meal 63 

 Observations and suggestions 63 



Packing bee hives 115 . 

 Paper hives, 233. 

 Past season 63, 124 . 

 Pasturage 188. 

 Patent claims 151, 240. 

 Patented and other hives 96. 

 Plants for bees 52 . 

 Polinisia integrifolla 192 

 Pollen 197, 231. 

 Pollen substitute 150, 231. 

 Po?tage on queen cage 2S8 



