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INDEX'TO VOLUME IX. 



Adair 57, %. 



Adair's new-idea hive 100. 



Adam Grimm, a day with 61. 



Agassiz criticized 103. 



Apiary, jotting.s from 2. 



Appeal to bee-keepers 132. 



Bee-culture, progressive 41, 78 107. 



I5ee houses 71. 



Bee-Keepers' Convention, German 29,1 



Bee matters &c. 136. 



Bee pasturage 144. 



P.ee stiugs 52. 



Bee stiugs, remedy for 75. 



Bees, a few facts about 22. 



Bees and their stiug 111. 



Bees by mail 37, 51, 69, 96, 109. 



Bees to winter, old or young 10. 



Blackhawk Co., Iowa, from 15. 



Blowing disease 143. 



Brood vs. pollen 27. 



Brood without pollen 112. 



Butterflies, controlling sex iu 20. 



Chips from sweet home 46, 95. 



Cincinnati Exposition '06. 



Cleansing old combs 139. 



Comfort T'or the persecuted 19. 



Curious experience 70. 



Cursory remarks 122. 



Different sized honey boxes 19. 



Do bees injure fruit? 34. 



Dollar hive 36. 



Doolittle's article 7. 



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



Enemies changed to friends 35. 



Error corrected 136. 



Pixhibition at Simniening 97. 



Experience of a beginner 11. 



Extracting houey 89, 133. 



Extractor, jubilant over 28. 

 Farmers should be bee-keepers 87. 

 Feeding bees 87. 

 Food for bees, artificial 4. 

 Foul brood, cured 9. 

 Freak, a strange 47. 

 Fulton Co., 111., from 8. 

 Gallup answers questions 47. 

 Gallup hits somebody 4S. 

 Gallup on the Adair hive 64. 

 Gallup vs. Novice 3, 

 Greenhorn's view 61. 

 Headings 89. 

 Hives, cheap 14. 33, 142. 

 Honey bee 59, 80. 128. 

 Information wanted 76. 

 Intensive bee-keeping 90. 

 Impregnation of a wasp 121. 

 Imprisoning queens 139. 

 Iowa as a state for bee-keeping 24. 

 Italians, hiving 39. 

 Items 4, 34, 85, 135. 

 Jottings 18. 

 Kansas Association 10'.. 

 Kansas, letter from 52. 

 Listers experience 127. 

 Little things 63 

 Maine, echoes from 10. 

 Mice cleaning combs 87. 

 Morrison, 111., bee notes from 137 

 Moth killer 124. 

 Moth-worm ravages 90. 

 Mystery not yet solved 120. 

 Natural and artificial swarms 82 

 I Nebraska, letter from 62. 

 I New liedford. Mass.. letter from 60. 

 New honey company 111. 

 'New trouble 104. 



Not mistaken 137. 



Novice 1, 25, 49, 73, 113, 129, 130. 



Novice and Rowell 66 



Novice's articles 28. 



One eyed bees 123. 



Our experience 86. 



Our maiden swarm 50. 



Patents granted 92. 



Penn. Association 108. 



Prof. Chevalley, dealings of 17. 



Pollen 38. 



Queens 113. 



Queens, renewing and impregnating 1. 



Queens, surplus 8. 



Kape as a honey |)lant, more about 12 



Removing honey 138, 



Report of apiary 94. 



Reports 19, 43, 67, 91, 115, 140. 



Season of 1873 91. 



Simple cover for hives 134. 



Simplicitj' bees. &c. 15. 



Small vs. large hives 89. 



Spring Feeding 5. 



Strengthening swarms 138. 



Sugar syrup for bees 83. 



Surrogate 77. 124. 



Swarming. 16, 39, 99. 



Swarms, liow to unite 34 



The he bees 119. 



Tiverton, letter from 65. 



To Novice 66, 88. 



Topeka Kansas, from 47. 



What killed the bees 125. 



Widener C. E., answer to 76. 



Will R. King 65. 



Wintering, out-door 37. 85. 



Wintering bees 38, 63, 83, 99, 131, 134. 



INDEX TO CORPxESPONDENTS., 



AbbeE. P. 60; Adair 57. 78, 119; Alley H. 66 87,108; 

 Anderson I. 65 ; Argus 28, 135. 



Baker G. 19; Bingham T. F. 94; Bolin J. 96; Burgess 

 G. T. 28; Butler J. 28, 137, 139; Burbank D. 9; Burch H. 

 A. 130, 



Cameron N. 52. 101 ; Carr W. 136 ; Chapman F. W. 137 ; 

 Crist H. 19 : Crowfoot J. & I. 86. 



Dadant C. 17. 41. 87. 96, 107, 112, 132; Dadant C. P. 100: 

 Gallup3, 34, 47, 48, 64, 88; Davis W. J. 108; Doolittle G. 

 M. 1, 7. 



Grimm A. 111. 



Harrison L. W. 127; Harmon O. 62; Hawley W. S. 110; 

 Hazen J. 14. 87. 122; Heddon J. 89; Hibbard C. D. 34, 38; 

 Hester M. C. 134; Hosmer J. W. 10; Hubbard J. L. 99. 



Kellogg W. M. 61. 66: Keller D. H. 8; King W. R. 65: 



Kretchmer E. 136; Kruschke J. D. 12, 76. 

 I Linswik Cyula 16, 39. 50. 104; Luhmann W. 34. 

 ! Mauville I. J. 39; Marsh D. 120 Mason A. B. 15,66; 

 jMerriam G. F. 47 : Moore J. E. 75, 84 ; Muth C. F. 83, 89,131. 



Novice 25. 49, 73, 113. 

 I Oatman J. 1 1 ; Oesau C. 13 ; Oldt R. B. 138 ; O'Neil M. A. 

 37. 85. 



I Palmer D. D. 46, 95; Peirce J. H. 32; Pence F.76; Por- 

 ker J. W. 67. 

 I Quinby M. 37, 102. 125. 133. 



Renediur59. 80. 111. 128; Richie J. E. 113; RonaldW.J.63. 

 1 Scientific 90; Seseaye 13; Silsby G. S. 10; Stephenson 

 iH. W. 106. 



I Wagner G. S. 72, 94 ; Wison H. W. 134 ; Worthington 

 Id. M.88. 



