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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Proper time to put on surplus cases 757 



Prophecy of the honey-flow for 1892 690 



Propolis as a smoker fuel 616 



Punic bees 53, 424 



Purity of queens 521 



Purple or Italian clover 182 



Pursuit to combine with bee-keeping 303 



Putting bees out of the cellar 459 



Quack bee-keepers 723 



Queen 523 



Queen a hermaphrodite 599 



Queen and spermatic cells 330 



Queen-bee experience 23, 87 



Queen-bees— difference in size 334 



■ Jueen-breeding 167 



Jueen-cell built over a drone-egg 526, 727 



Jueen-excluders 593 



Jueen-excluding honey-boards 465 



Jueenless colony in winter 237, 363 



Jueen or worker 7 565 



>ueen questions 2^6,429, 777 



Jueen-rearing 617, 777 



Queen-rearing frame size 552 



Queen records 434 



Queens cramping 564 



Queens injured by being chilled 489 



Queens mating in the air 76 



Queens— test for purity 521 



Queens with 2nd and 3rd swarms 560 



Queer actions of a colony 554 



Questions and answers 327 



Quilts in summer 489 



Rain of honey-dew 599 



Rearing queens 273, 495, 749 



Reason why bees don't pay sometimes 150 



Records of queens 434 



Reducing bees 100 per cent 565 



Relative profit of comb and extracted honey 274 



Removing dead bees from combs 460 



Removing eggs from cells 532, 535, 590 



Removing honey from brood-combs to the sec- 

 tions 558, 589 



Re-q ueen ing 375, 63 1 



Reproduction in bees 82, 721 



Reversing frames— questions on 533 



Rheumatism cured by bee-stings 307, 312 



Robber bees 521 



" Rough on Rats " for killing ants 791 



Sawdust for packing bees 459 



Sawdust gathered by bees 439 



Scale record of a colony 438 



Sealed covers 402, 566 



Section holders 148 



Selecting a home before swarming 588 



Self-hivers 142, 471, 757 



Self-hivers and the drone and queen-trap.... 401, 757 



Selling the honey 301 



Sense of smell in bees 53 



Separators . 264 



Separators and unfinished combs 397 



Severe winter in New York 152 



Shall we go out of the bee-business ? 49 



"Shake-out" function of hives 585 



Skunks in the apiary 115, 462 



Something very funny 170 



Southern queens 297 



Spermatic animalcules in bee-eggs 330 



Spraying of fruit-trees 113 



Spraying potatoes 273 



Spreading the brood-frames unnecessary and 



cruel 566 



Standards for judging Italian bees 240 



Starting queen-cells 185 



State experiment apiaries 775 



Still thinks it a queen 505 



Stimulative spring feeding 522 



Stings and the breath 648 



Sting-trowel theory 137, 330, 370. 467 



Stock or Beveridge willow for bees 337 



Straw-board separators ,521 



Stray straws 88 



Strengthening bees 727 



Strong colonies for comb or for extracted honey? 783 

 Successes and discouragements in bee-keeping.. 373 



Successful bee-keeping not all in hives 815 



Successful wintering conditions 695 



Sugar-cane- gathering honev from 504 



Sugar-cane syrup for wintering bees 139 



Sugar-honey 18, 71. 13.5, 181. 199, 231,295, 615 



Sugar syrup or honey for wintering .366, 786 



Summerland of Florida 331 



Swarm-catchers made from broom-handles 471 



Swarming of bees .'">88 



Swarming out 809 



Swarm scattered all over a tree 553 



Swarms liived on starters 310, 312 



Swarms occupying empty hives put up in trees. 789 

 Syrup for feeding 718 



Taxing bees 233 



Teachers in bee-keeping '...'.'.'.'.".'.'.!".'.*. 631 



Telling old queens 45 



Temperature reports 24, 248,' 343 



Texas and her resources 730 



Texas horticultural meeting 744 



" That bee with the glands " '.',', isi 



Th umb-screws „ 430 



Tight-end frames and moths '." 791 



Transferring bees 74, 204, 438, 461, 490, 521. 



617,649,652 684 



Treatment of swarming queens 435 



Tremendous honey-flow 681 



Tunisian or " Punic " bees 147 



Unfinished combs and separators 397 



Union of bee-keepers 368 



Uniting colonies 54, 306, 333. 655 



Utah bee-notes 821 



"Value of a good colony in fall and In spring 238 



Value of bee-literature i84 



Varieties of bees and their characteristics . . 144, 620 



Vermont exhibit 273 



Vermont law against adulteration 424 



Virgin queens 246,461, 758 



Voice organs of the bee 744 



Wagner and Langstroth 525 



Watering bees in the non-s warmer 820 



Watering troughs and bees S52 



What Bio. Alley wouldn't do 584, 680 



What caused the dwindling? 746 



White sage of California 720 



Why did the bees die ? 297 



Why did the bees swarm out ? 809 



Why farmers and horticulturists should be bee- 

 keepers 817 



Why some people suffer from stings and others 



not 689 



Why was the queen balled 7 809 



Wide frames 297 



Wild peach of Texas 312 



Will of the queen and sex of the egg 51, 108, 



244,402,492,505,565,711,753 755 



Will the colony swarm ? 489 



Will the nucleus swarm ? .585 



Wintering and springing bees 589 



Wintering bees 118, 277. 369, 598, 721 



Wintering bees in io wa 820 



Wintering bees in the South 45 



Wintering bees out-doors 375 



Wintering bees under ground 434 



Wintering bees under snow 336 



Wintering bees up-stairs 600 



Winter losses and other bee-keeping matters 788 



Winter losses of bees in Northeastern Iowa 785 



Winter problem in bee-culture 560 



Wisconsin honey exhibit 231, 280 



Worker-brood in drone-comb 746 



Worker-eggs laid in drone-cells 330 



Working for increase 364 



Working qualities of bees 564 



World's Fair apiarian exhibit 81, 399 



World's Fair notes 679 



yellow jessamine 428 



Yellow sweet clover 777 



Yield of honey-plants 589 



ILLUSTRATIONS, 



Alslke clover 467 



Crane bee-smoker 661 



Benton, Master Ralph 587 



Dadant, Charles 425 



Demaree,G. W 329 



Dibbern,C. H 779 



Doollttle, G. M 203 



Blwood.P.H 43 



France, K QUO 



Green,J.A 171 



Grimm, Adam 138 



Harrison, Mrs. L, 458 



Holtermann, R. F ... 683 



lyangdon non-swarming device 629 



Larrabee, J. H 715 



Mason, Dr.A. B 747 



Mating of queen and drone 600 



McEvOT, Wm 393 



Miller, Dr. C. C 105 



Muth, Ohas. F 235 



Pond, Joseph B .523 



Pringle, Allen 619 



Qulnby, Moses < 267 



