INDEX TO VOL. XI. 



A few Remarks 12 



Alsike Clover in the South 15 



Answer to Mrs. Spaids 19 



A Scientific Mare's Nest 25 



Adulterated Honey, 35, 81, 94, 135, 13G 



180, 262 



Answer to H. W. S 37 



A Friend or Enemy 46 



A Dozen of same Ilk 47 



Answer to Mr. Dadant 51 



A Friend or Enemy 59 



Address of Dr. N. P. Allen 60 



A Chinese Bee 74 



Austin, Texas 113 



An Essay on the Size of Frames . . . .133 



A Student of Billings 136 



A Sad History 138 



A Suggestion — Be Honest 151 



About California, 157, 174, 198, 207 



Age of Bees 159 



A Stinging Subject 185 



A Essev onto the bee 187 



Alsike Clover 200 



A Rectification 202 



Amende Honorable 200 



Another Race of Bees 218 



Arkansas and Apiculture 242 



A Home Market 261 



Annual Meeting N. A. B. Society 268 



A few words from Southern CaliforniH 271 



A Wild Swarm taken in 273 



Amateur 273 



Bees and Flowers at Sydi-nliam 5 



Bees in Aroostook Co., jNIaine. ...... 16 



Breeding Peaceful Hybrids 16 



British Bee-Keepers 26 



Bee Enemies 36 



Bee Notes from Kentucky 39 



Birth, Mating and Laymg of the Molii- 



er Bee 53 



Bees, Wasps and Grapes 53 



Before the Legislature 74 



Bees and Centennial Exposition 98 



Bee Lines from Texas 115 



Bee Men in Council 125 



Bee Keeping and its Interests 128 



Brood Raising and Artificial 



Swarming 132 



Bees Communicating Ideas 146 



Biographical Sketch of M. Quinby,. .147 



Bad Luck 149 



Best Bee Location 150 



Bee Notes 155 



Bee Forage, 157 



Bee Pasturage, 158, 177 



Bee Report from Italy 218 



Bee-keeping in 1875 226, 247 



Burying Bees 279 



Co-Relation of Bees and flow^ers 52 



Chips from Sweet Home 59, 173 



Candied Honey — Empty Comb 61 



Criticism 77 



Comparative Merits of Bees 90 



Closing Word 106 



Cincinnati Exposition 157 



Candied vs. Liquid Honey 136, 163 



Coe's Apiary 175 



Cultivation of Honey 207 



Comb Foundations 261 



Comb Foundations 281 



Dysentery again 15 



Down with Importation 54 



Death of M. Quinby 146 



Don't Violate the Postal Law 146 



Do Bees Sleep? 159 



Division and Subsequent Re-union . . .219 



Eccentric 11, 64, 80 



Evaporating Honey 46 



Experiments with Honey 73 



Enemies of the Bee 110 



Esparcet Culture 152 



Exchanging Brood Combs 210 



Editorial Items 268 



Foul Brood 106 



Foreign Department. . .' 9 



Fertile Workers 187 



Fertile Workers 199 



Frame Making 203 



From Amateur 209 



Feed the Bees 210 



Getting Honey in Frames 62 



Getting Honey m Boxes 107 



Handling Bees 10 



Home made Bee Hive 12 



Honey-Producing Plants 17 



Hives in the South 20 



Honey at N. Y. State Fair 40 



How to save a Queenless Stock 61 



How I built a Bee House 66 



Honey Locust for Hedging 74 



Honey Granulating 103, 11^ 



How to make Hives 105 



How I Succeeded _^^ 110 



How I Wintered 1 15 



Historical Notes 116 



How to Transfer Bees 121 



How my Bees Wintered 137 



Hives for Farmers 139 



How to Drive away Grasshoppers. . . .147 



Handling Bees. 153 



How it Looks Here 154 



Honey Dew, and Where it Comes from, 162 



How to Lodge a Svvarm 163 



How about California 181 



How a Beginner Succeeds 182 



Honey-Producing Wild Flowers 194 



How "to Prevent Swarming 223 



Honey Plants 243 



House Apiary , 261 



Honey 246 



Iowa B. K. Association 43 



Improved Breeding, Queen Raising, 



etc 90 



Introducing Queens 113 



