INDEX TO VOL. XL 



Italian Bees 149 



Italian Bee Chromos 176 



Instinct of the Bee 262 



Jeff. Co. B. K. Association 40 



Jottings 260 



Kentucky Bee-Keepers' Meeting 67 



Local B. K. Societies 28 



Letter from Kansas 42 



Longevity of Bees 113 



Letter from Italy, 165 



Lincoln County, Tennessee 221 



My Experience 16 



Mich. Bee-Men in Council 29 



My First Year's Experience 57 



Marketing Honey 102, 155 



Missouri Bee Killer 103 



My Report 114 



Milkweed Asclepias 171 



My Bees 200 



My Experience with Italians 206 



My First Italian Swarm 209 



My New Bee House 220 



Michigan Bee Keepers' Association . .262 



Maury Co. (Tenn.) Meeting 275 



Notes and Queries. 7, 27, 69, 75, 117 

 123, 164, 188, 211, 240, 266 



New Bee Pasturage 13 



Notes on Bee-Keeping 58 



Numbering Hives 61 



North Eastern B. K. Association 82 



New System of Bee-Culture 112 



Notes on Bee Culture in France 140 



Nellie's Experiment 274 



Odd Tidings 54 



Our Plan of Wintering 101 



On the Field Again 150 



Officious Meddlesomeness 170 



Our Foreign Bee Notes 177 



Our New Year's Present 265 



Progress of Bee-Culture 52 



Posting up the account 58 



Proper Winter Temperature 58 



Patent Hives and Venders 109 



Purity of Italian Bees 130 



Pruning Bees, 158 



Prevention of Swarming 175, 262 



Prospects, etc., in Tennessee 183 



Practical Notes 260 



Queen Raising 14 



Queen Bees 186 



Remarks on Eccentric 45 



Report from the Pacific Slope 65 



Reply to Dadant 105 



Report of my Apiary Ill 



Reply to Mr. Root, . / 163 



Retrospection 260 



Success in Raising Honey 10 



Superior Fiddlesticks 13 



Safely Wintering Bees 18 



Seasonable Hints, 26, 57, 73, 97, 122, 145 

 169, 193, 217, 241. 265 



Solid Frames 43 



Shallow or Tall Frames 55 



Swarmers and Non-Swarmers 64 



Stray Thoughts 92 



Sundry Items 56, 93, 113 



Size of Hives 104 



Shall we Continue to Import Bees. . . .130 



Successful Wintering 132 



Sundry Questions Answered 141 



Southern Kentucky Convention, 160 



Something about Queens 183 



Special to our Readers 193 



Southern Ky. B. K. Association 277 



The Hen and Honey Bee 10 



The Tulip Tree again 14 



The Italian Test 43 



The " Moon " shone Bright 44 



Three Hundred Years Ago 78 



Tall and Shallow Frames 102 



To Double the Capacity of Hives 104 



The Hive I Use 104 



The Attic as a Bee House 123, 178 



The ABC of Bee-Keeping 122 



The Winter " Down South " 131 



The Peabody Extractor 139 



Transferring Bees 154 



The Bee Hive, 161 



The Bee Enemies 170 



The Senses of Bees 179 



The Centennial 194, 217, 265 



The Swarming of Bees 197 



The other Side of Bee Culture 245 



Two Queens in one hive 279 



Upright Ventillation 14 



Utilizing Drone Comb 190 



Voices from Among the Hives, 20. 47, 70 

 76, 99, 142, 165, 190, 195, 240, 263, 281 



Whistling down Swarms 15 



Wintering Bees in the South 17 



Winter without Pollen 35 



Why is it? 42 



Wintering Bees 42, 49, 91, 93 



Winter Passages 57 



Word of Cheer for the Workers 77 



Wintering in Glass Observatories 79 



Wax Melting Ill 



What has become of Gallup ? 182 



Wonderful Instincts of the Honey Bee. 184 



Warsaw Horticultural Society 202 



Wonderful Bees 205 



Wintering and Springing Bees 269 



Why is it? 272 



What is Honey ? 280 



