INDEX TO VOL. XII. 



A Chapter of Failures 



Adulterated Honey 



Adam Grimm— Biographical 



Advice to Beginners 



Albino Bees 109, 167, 



Alley's Smoke Pipe 



Alsike Clover as a Honey Plant 



A Mine of Sw^eetness 



An Explanation 



An Extractor to be Given away 



An Essay on Bees 



Another Danger 



Another New^ Experience 



An Old Bee Book 



Answer to Mr. McNeil 



A nut for Bee-Keepers to Crack 



Artificial Conib Foundation^ 'S2,'.iih', 118, 

 135, 145, 173-1S9, 201, 211, 2.38, 



Artifical Swarms 



A Sorghum Mill and Bees 



A Valuable Insti-ument 



A visit to a Michigan Bee-Keener 



Bee Culture in Texas 



Bee Keeping 134, 



Bee-Keeping in Utah 



Bee Killers— Asilus Flies 



Bee Language 



BeeNotes 2i0, 



Bee Notes from Central New York . . . 



Bee Notes from Morrison 



Bee Notes from North Carolina 



Bee Products in the United States 



Bee Smoker 



Bees in California 



Bees making tiieir Homes in Houses ... 



Bees Stinging to Death 



Bees Working in Rye Meal 



Beeswax vert^us Comb 



Black Bee— Canst' of its rimning out... 



Black Bees— Wintering . . .' 



Buzz Saws 



California Honey 



Can Bees Hear? 137, 179, 



Capt. Hetheriugton's Address, ...84. 97, 



Care of Comb 326, 



Cases for Shipping Comb Honey 



Cause of Swarming 



Chaff Cushions , 



Chaff for Packing Hives 



Cheap Winter Protection for Bees . .110, 

 Chips from Sweet Home ... .14, 123, 286, 



City Bee-Keeping 



Comb-Building 212, 



CombCiuides 



Comb vs. P]xtracted Honey .59, 110, 



Controlling Swarms 



Cook's Manual of Bee-Keeping 116, 



C. W. Boyce— Biograi)liical 



Dadant on the Purity of Queens 



Death of Adam Griu'im 



Depression in Apiculture 



Disease of the Bee 



Distance of Combs, centre to centre, 159, 

 Do Bees Make or Gather Honey? . . 263, 



Domesticating Bees 



Drone Brood Only 



Drones 



19 



58 

 231 

 2.53 

 216 

 276 

 284 



29 

 165 

 228 

 235 

 103 

 256 

 277 

 235 

 241 

 2.59 



314 

 121 

 293 

 190 



;258 



1.54 

 181 

 278 

 2.57 

 275 

 257 

 255 

 162 

 180 

 282 

 135 

 18 



232 



164 

 138 

 131 

 289 

 161 



2.52 

 2M 

 143 

 249 

 275 



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275 

 173 

 129 

 313 

 217 

 229 

 261 

 212 

 233 

 145 

 113 



213 

 117 

 1.58 

 151 

 210 

 293 

 276 

 182 

 284 



Early History of Bees and Honey 150 



Economise their Labors 66 



Editorial Items. 6, .30, .55, .56, 85, 86, 116, 



144-148, 176-178, 203, 204, 226, 251, 276, 298 

 Effects of f he Extractor on Brood . . 14, 134 



Effects of Stings 230 



Experience of "Six" 93 



Extracted Honey 107, 152, 157, 201 



Extracted Honey and Foundation 147 



Extracting from Brood Frames 136 



Feeding Bees 104, 27.3-275,' 290 



Finding Queens 173, 239 



Fifty Dollars Damages 275 



Foreign Notes 21 



Foul Brood— Artificial Feeding.. 17, 217, 273 

 Foundation Machines 251 



Give plenty of Room and Honey 228 



Give us the Points 11 



Giving Bees bits of Comb 274 



Glass Honey-Boxes 9 



Gleanings from our Exchanges, 173, 201, 



225, 249, 273, 299 



Good Report from S W. Missouri 187 



Growlers 233 



Henry County, (0.) B. K. Association . . 164 



Hiving Swarms 180 



Honey Cakes 241 



Honey in Small Boxes 96 



Honey Plants 177 



Honey Prize (Di-. Larch) 174 



Honey-Producing I'lants 33 



Honey Prospects 203 



Honor to whom Honor is Due 134 



Housing Bees 13 



How are the Mighty Fallen 25 



How it was Accomjilished 16 



How Queens are Soiuctimes lost 287 



How to Increase the List 313 



How to Keep Box Honey 225 



How to Make it '. 67 



How to Obtain the Largest Yiekls 93 



How to Place Hives 94 



How to Propagate and Increase 185 



How to Successfully Winter Bees . . . ^ . 289 



Improvements 13 



Improvement of the Italian Bee... : 188, 205 



''In Medio Tutissimus Ibis" 211 



Iutro<lucing Queens 202, 209', 276, 311 



Is Bee-Keeping Unreliable 288 



Italian versus Black Bees • 234 



Italian versus Hybrid Queens 144 



Italians on Red (Mover "' 249 



Joseph jNI. Brooks— Biographical 57 



K<'(>ping Bees over Winter 293 



Keeping Honey .^ 287 



King Birds once more > . . 154, 225 



Lancaster Co. Bee-Keepers Societ.y — 140 



Laying Barren Eggs 226 



liCt Justice be Done, etc 84 



liCtter from Bohemia .' 253 



Ligurian Bees .■ 273 



Los Angeles B. K. Meeting . . . .18.4, 214, 239 



