Index to Volume VI. — American Bee Journal. 



Ab.mt hives 2-10. 



About patents 7:5. 



Africaa honey tree 116. 



All droues virile 248. 



Alley's Langstroth hive 8, 108. 



Alleged error 13. 



American bee-ke^per's convention 193. 



Another smoker 187. 



Answer to puzzle 158, 188. 



Around amon» apiaries 8S. 



Argo's puzzle 120. 



Arresting swarms 281. 



Artificial honey comb 147, 174, ISO. 



Artificial queens 61, 134. 



Balm, to attract swarms 163. 

 Bee cholera 87. 



Bee culture,— East and West 63. 

 " in cities 79. 



" practical 1, 23, 84. 



" bcieutilic 33. 



" thoughts on 17. 



Bee hives 103. 

 Bee farmintt 211. 

 Bee feeder 2:50. 

 Bee houses UH. 

 Bee humbugs 67. 

 Bee huntini;- 135, 245. 

 Bee-keepers' convention, 122, 123. 

 Bee-keeping advancing 92. 

 " down East 204. 



" improvements in 41. 



Bee palace 283. 

 Bee poison 221, 233. 

 Bee season at Birmingham, Iowa 176. 

 Bees at Biughaniton, 2i. Y. 111. 



" Bremer Co. (Iowa) Fair 151. 

 Bees during drouth in Iowa 177. 

 Bees in Abyssinia 26. 



" Bavaria 21. 



" Bay State hives 203. 



" Beuuiugton, Vt. 110. 



" Borneo 14, 51. 



" Central JMew Hampshire 59. 



" Champaigiie Co., Ills. 112. 



" Colorado 205, 224. 



" Connecticut 157. 



" Hancock Co., Indiana 96. 



" Iowa 82. 



" Kansas 132. 



" North Carolina 205, 

 Bees and grapes 210, 255. 

 Beginner's experience 208. 

 Black bees and Italians 208. 

 Buckwheat yielding no honey 112. 

 Buried bees resurrected 10. 



Caution 114, 285. 



Cells, form of 28. 

 •Challenge 92. 



Cliautauque Co. bee-keepers' conven- 

 tion 129. 



Chloroforming bees 2S0. 



Clamps v. Splints 269. 



Coming conventions 115. 



Comments 76, 211. 



Correction 114, 188. 



Correspondence 21, 46, 70, 93, 117, 

 142, 106, 19U, 262, 2S5. 



Cross Breeding 206. 



Cure for foulbrood 97, 248. 



Cylindrical queen cage 45. 



Death of J. T. Langstroth 21, 72. 



Death fi'om a bee siiug 269. 



Development oi sex 5. 



Devices that aie no inventions 2.55. 



Do the right! 116. 



Doubts and difficulties 209. 



Drones, experiments with 250. 



purity of 209, 247. 

 Drouth 91. 

 Dysentery 286. 



Early swarming 252. 

 East Indian bees 121. 

 Economic hive and Gallup's 86. 

 Ecouomiziu:,' in manasrement 39. 

 Editorial 21, 45, 69, 93, 117, 141, 165, 



IS9, 216,233, 261, 285. 

 Eii;hteen hundred and seventy 215. 

 Error alleged 13. 

 European Sparrow 69. 

 Expectations and hopes 254. 

 Experience and observations 89. 



" with fouUjrood 11. 



Experiments with drones 250. 

 Experimenting 275. 



Facts and fancies 232. 

 Fatting hogs 234. 

 Feeding 19, 165. 

 " bees 68. 



" " when building comb 48. 



Fertilization controllable 25. 



nun-flying 2uS, 259, 270. 

 " with select drones 258. 



Form of cells 28. 



" hive 6S, 138. 

 Foulbrood II, 49, 97, 136, 157, 165, 



1.-6, 248, 249, 271, 284. 

 Four-banded bees 77. 

 Frames of Bay State hive 252. 

 French Gingerbread 230. 

 Fumigator, new 253. 



Gallup hive 87. 

 Glass surplus honey boxes 42. 

 Good honey districts 14u, 205. 

 Great number of queen cells SI. 

 Grimm's honey crop in 1870 277. 



Hardy queens 11, 59, 60, 162. 

 Henroost hive 69. 

 Hive controversy 148, 181. 

 " for nuclei 88. 

 " question 103, 150. 

 " pedlers 229 

 " side gathering 255. 

 Hives 19, 240. 



" at National Convention 192 



" witliout bottom boards 213. 

 Hiving bees 210. 



Hogs, fatting, art and mystery of 234. 

 Honey boxes, 250. 



" comb, artificial 147. 



" dew 73, 114. 



" extractor 23, 75, 179, 208, 287. 



" jars, proper size of 255. 



" knife, how to make 66. 



" product and market 34. 



'■ producing plants 113. 



" season in Central New York 

 175. 

 Honey season in Hancock Co., West 



Va. 153. 

 Honey season in Iowa 82, 176. 



" to winter a colony 215. 

 Honor to whom honor 162. 

 Hopes and expectations 254. 

 House for wintering bees 282. 

 How may progress be taught? 119. 

 How to make a honey extractor 278. 

 How I lost queens 231. 

 Hunting wild bees 135, 245. 

 Hurrah for 1870! 75. 



for figures! 212. 



Improvement in bee-keeping 41. 



" stock 43, 85. 



Influence of form in hives 133. 

 Inquiries 133. 

 Introducing queen 10, S3, 102, 136, 



287. 

 Italian bees 17, 33, 241, 243. 

 Italian queens 57, 58, 99. 

 Italian and black bees 203. 



John's facts and fancies improvable 



276. 

 Jottings, explanatory 214. 



Kane County (Ills.) Bee-keepers' So- 

 ciety 264. 



King's hives, claims, and patents 

 219. 



King's and Laugstroth's patents 219. 



Lady beginners 231, 256, 283. 

 Langstroth hive 9. 

 Langstroth memorial 220. 

 Lanirstroth patent 15 

 Langstroth, death of J. T. 21, 72. 

 Largest yield of honey I, 3. 

 Late swarms 251. 

 Letter from England 74. 



" Missouri 66. 



" Tennessee 37. 



" Texas 139. 



Lookinif-glass theory 34, 67, SO, 91, 

 102, 103, 144, 14S, 188. 



Management of bees in winter .53. 



Massachusetts, season in 110. 



Metallic hive 254 



Michigan Bee-keepers' Con vent ion 122. 



Missouri, letter from 66. 



Mistaken notions 209. 



More facts and faucie.s 275. 



" My patent hive" 263. 



Mystery unsolved 16\). 



Natural and forced queen 259. 



Natural, proiiflc and hardy queens 

 11, .59, 60, 101, 162, 227, 2d8. 



New Jersey, a season in 158, 203, 225, 

 269. 



New smoker 109. 



New year 1871 178. 



No bees in Colorado 133. 



Non-flying fertilization 270. 



North .American Bee-keepers' Associ- 

 ation 169. 



Northeastern Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion 126, 265. 



Northwestern Bee-keepers' Conven- 

 tion 123. 



Note from a lady beginner 231. 



Notes and comments 2'.0. 



Novice 14, 32, 38, 62, 73, 100, 131, 172, 

 206, 223, 214, 267. 



Novice and the Eureka hive 263. 



Nuclei, hive for 85. 



Nursery 19, 90, 116, 184. 



Observations and experiences 89. 

 Origin of honey dew 73. 



Pain d'EpicBS Francois 230. 

 Paper hives 90. 

 Partial success 177. 

 Partridge pea 117, 118. 

 Part of my experience 43. 

 Past honey season 226, 227. 

 Patents 75, 216. 

 Patent hive pedlers 229. 

 Permanence of qualities 33. 

 Plants, honey-producing 113. 

 Poison of the liouey-bee 221, 233. 

 Pollen from Spanish needles 188. 

 Pollen, how Collected 37. 

 Polonisia purpurea 51, 113. 

 Practical bee culture 1, 25, 84. 

 Profitable bee-keeping 20, 74, 277. 

 Profits of bee-culture 277. 

 Prolific hardy queens 11, 59, 60, 162. 

 Purity of drones 247. 

 Purity of Italian bees 38, 99. 

 Puzzle 164, 188. 



Quinby 's queen yard and hive 24, 275. 



