826 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 25, 1902. 



Keeping combs 637. 683 



Keeping combs vf honey for swarms 217 



Keeping combs of pollen 723 



Keeping down increase 42 



Keeping records 159 



King-birds 157. 537 



l,Hbeling boner 355, 357 



Liingstroth hives 74 



Large yields 6 



Lame or worms 350 



Law against bogus honej 275 



Law against box-hives 13 1 



Laying workers 195. 197,238,505, 521,659,699, 824 



Lazy bees 457 



Learning bee-keeping 683 



Legislation against bee-diseases 567 



Lies about honey 35 



"Life of the Bee" < Maeterlinck) 67,291, 743 



Liquetying honey 203 



Locality— lessons from 725, 741 



Locations for beekeeping 137 



Locust 1 (17 



I-ongevity of beea 184. 248, 260,342, 374 



Lon^-ideal tiive for extracted honey 71 



Long-tongued bees 10, 47. 58. 76, 88, 105, 157, 



16fi. IM. iw.i. 232. 355 381 



Long-tongued canard 46 



Long-tongued discussion 4, 89 



Long-tongued number 71 



Loss of queens , 57 



Louisiana Purchase Exposition 709, 725 



Makingnuclei 218 



Management of bees f>G, 106,249,343,346, 411 



Management with two stories 62 



Market for combs 651 



Marketing honey 69, 121, 149.165.167, 179, 



IM', IH7. 195, 223. 328,342,355,388,389,519. 



5X2. 712.758 821 



Mating of queens 10.51. 148 



Mating queens in confinement 51, 137, 217 



Measuring bees' tongues 392 



Melting honey 174 



Meltose 28, 66, 138 



Moisture in cellars 510 



Moldy brood-combs 151 



Movable combs— forerunners of 1H2 



Moving bees 30, 74. 123. 138, 139. 169, 197. 199. 



20". 232. 488,504,520, 537. 618. 649. 666,684,795. 824 

 Mulberries 508 



Names for various forms of honey P24 



National Bee-Keepers' Association 83, 819 



Nature and honey-sroring qualities 198 



'■ Nature and nurture " 568 



Nomenclature of forced swarms 691 



Non-swarming bees 453 



Nuclei— forming 583, 650 



Odds and ends of the season 5 



Old-timer's methods 44 



Old vs. new combs 755 



One-piece vs. four-piece sections 85 



Optimism or pessimism— which ? 27 



Our sisters in England 808 



Out-apiaries '. 53, 181 



Out-door wintering 85 



Oxide of zinc for bire>C0Ters 409 



298 

 330 

 116 



70 

 824 

 798 



71 

 333 



5M 

 457 



70 

 330 

 633 

 70H 

 4LI9 

 739 

 45H 

 602 

 282 



Packing for bees 41, 



Painting hives 



Parslev honey 



Pasi-age-ways through combs 



Pear-blight and bees 3.^5, 



Phacelia 635, 75o, 



Photographing a bee 



Pickled brood 41, 



Pictures of apiaries 



Piping (jf the queen 423, 



Placing combs in the extractor 



Placirg hives 



Poisoning bee-* 419,485,508,518,557, 



Poison ijt the bee 



Pollen-clngged combs 



Pollen— don't waste 



Pollen-gathering 



Pollen in the sections , 



Pollen substitute 



Pomologist and fruit-grower 



Post-check 237 



Practical suggestions , 55 



Preparing lor the hnney-How 421, SKfi 



Preserving queens above normal colonies 911 



Preventing lioney-granulation 793 



Prevent irtn of increase 53, 107, 123, :£66, 371. 



378,394.4 3.420 437 



Prices of honey 85 



Prolonging life of the queen 307 



Propaganda for honey 694 



Proper naming of swarms 259 



Propolis 124,601, 649 



Propolosin *i3 



I*urity of Italian bees ' 222 



Putting on supers 330,394, 441 



Ouatity of extracted honey 397 



Oueen carrying foul brood 20 



Queen-cells 3, 105 



yueen-excluders 489,491, 708 



OueenlcHH colonies 71, 184.265, 3-2. 521, 714 



gueen-rearing 10. 12. 169, 188,218. 267, •2n2. 



356. 3-*7, 3K7, 453, 4>7. 5o2, 506. 519, .533, 552, 

 SflH, .'i9:., -96, 597 , 598, 621, 637, 649,654, 695. 



696.712,760.798,824 821 



Queens ? 76.89, 2«4 



Queens direct from Italy 347 



Queens " feelers " 153 



Queens going out in the spring 362 



Queen'ssting 138 



Quiet robbing-treatment 652 



Quinine honey 523 



Quoting the honey market 467. 469, 483, 485, 570 



Racpsof bees 71, I80, 2rA457, 790 



Hearing long-lived queens and bees M42. 374. 



390. 4f»«. 423, 439. 454, 470, .584, 681, 696, 728 . . Sn? 



Ked clover 77, 355 



Red-clover honey 71 



Ueduring number of colonies 572 



Kt-mo^ing granulated honey from combs 5-5 



Hemovtiig honey from brood-chamber to super. 373 



Kemoving supers o" honey 821 



Keudering beeswax 163, 468 



KenderlDgcomb into wax 326, 363 



Repairins hive-covers 446 



Report for the season of 1902 791 



Reponing the honey-crop 788 



Reputation of extracted honey 499 



Requeening U 9. 233,425,457,488, 505 



Kesultsof the season 06 



Retailing honey 71 



Ripening honey 308 



Roadside tree planfng '. 59 



Roati-trap for rabbits 9 



Robber-bees 1 15, 184. 282, 309. 333, 359, 504, 



537.618.... 761 



Sainfoin 494 



Scorecards 138 



Scraping sections 538, 647 



Securing a foul brood law for lUtnois 341 



Selling bees I9fi 



Selling honey 58. 821 



Separators 458 



Setting out bees 382 



Shade for bees 9,85. 248.316. 317 



Shading and ventilating bee-hives 728, 824 



Shaking bees from the combs 185 



Shallow frames vs. standard in extracting 180 



Shipping bees 92. 731, 745 



Shipping-cases 103. 219.404 ,711. 828 



Shipping honey 163, 173. 388. 637 



Shooting birds 104 



Size of bees 264 356 



Size of cells 622 



Size of honey-cans 275 



Skin-whitening preparation 744 



Smelter smoke and bees 755 



Smoker-fuel 85. f20. 713, 729, 760, 795. 809 



Sour hnney— sweetening 763, 829 



Specialist bee-keepers 218, 666 



Specific gravity of honey 72 



Spraying fruit-trees :.. 7,67,94, 147,266,269, 505 



Spraying to thin fruit 436 



Spraying with hellebore 330 



Spreading brood 247 



Spring dwindling.. 25o 



Spring feeding 2I8, 232 



Spring killing of drones 407 



Starting in bee-keeping 90 



Starting queen-cells 51, 398 



Stimulative feeding. 41. 115. 153,227,266,282,334. 621 



Stitiglt^ss bees 115, 184 



Sting of thequeen 35 



Sting-* for rheumatism 435 



Storing in the supers 632 



Strong vs. weak colonies 83 



Sugar f<>r bees 2f9 



Sugar syrup 659 



Sulphur smoke and black brood 291 



Super foundation in brood-chamber 132 



Superseding queens 360, 425,441.494.499. 667 



Swarm-catcher 252 



Swarming 74, 89.92.94, 134. 147,217.227,249, 



329, 335, 381. 394. 409. 411, 419,442.458.473, 



488. 501. 506. 568. 602, 745 755 



Swarms leaving after being hived 425, 8in 



Swarthraore system of nucleus management... 381 

 Sweet clover ...26. 35. 123. 13«, 196. 211. 228, 244, 



24rt. 355. 394. 42W. 429. 4^8. 586, 675, 803 812 



Sweet-clover honey 297, 3o9 



Telegony 375 



Temperature ( proper) for opening hives 347 



Ten-rrame vs. eight-frame hives 123, 139 



Tenr-canvas 103 



Tested queen— What is a 7S7 



Testing tongue-length of bees 199 



'I'ext-book on bees 83, sio 



Tiering u p supers 339, 340 



Tongue-length and glosBometers 327 



Tongue-length vs. hustle 294 



Tongue-reach 71, 199, 212 



Tools for bee-keepers 000 



Too much honey in spring 



Tooth-wash— honey 



Transferring. ...41. 74. 1.52. 201, 214, 217, 218,'232.* 



233. 282, 346. 362. 409. 435 



"Truth about honey'*..35.51, 83. 88, 115, 131. 147. 



Tsupers 139,169, 



Two queens with a swarm 



218 



3 



490 

 157 

 601 

 501 



Uncapping machine 70 



Unfinished sections ,.9,685, 729 



Uniformity of hives and fixtures 499 



Uniting colonies. ..62, 267 521, 537. 646,659, 739, 792 



Uniting nuclei sge 



Uniting weak colon ias in the fall 792 



Unrecognized heroism ,59 



Untested queens 4R3 



Using honey in cooking and candies 792 



Use of smoke 294, 483 



Use of the queen's sting 409, 505 



Utter vs. Utter case 22 



Value of good queens 



Value of honey as a food 



Value of old combs : 



Value of stored-up bee-information 



Veniilating hives 



Ventilation of bee-cellars 163, 199, 



Vetch as a honey producer 



Vetch not H gnoii lioney-plant 



Virgin qui.-ens uniting with a swarm 



V-sbaped top-bar— originator of 



Wasps and bees compared 



Watering bees 



Watermelons for bees 



Wax-extractors 153, 163, 330, 



Waxing barrels 



Wax- ureases 163, '81. 



Wax-production 535, 



Wax- worms 633. 714, 



Wax-worms and bass wood 211, 



Weather for handling bees 



Wliat deier mines sex 



Whipping' up the queen 



White clover— large 179, 



White-eyed drones 489, 



Wild swarms 



Wintering a nucleus in an observatory hive 



Winteringbees..:i7.7o. 74, 7.'.. 85. 94. 121. 164.170, 



21'^, 2:(2. 2S4. 344. 3.'.0, .'i50. 619,629,649,667. 



(.79.714. 7^3, 745. 761 



Winter stores 



Wiring comb foundation by electricity 



Wiring frames 153, 



Wooden comb-guide t triangular) 



Worker-comb without toundallon 



Working for wax and htmey 



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99 

 687 

 805 

 681 

 686 

 579 

 729 

 248 

 307 

 502 



Yellow box-honey 227 



Yellow-pine hives 233 



Yellow sweet clover 199, 248, 494, 505 



Young queens 378, 419, 82^ 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Abbott, Emerson T 283, 662 



Abbott (Emerson T.) and wife) — their 



home and some of their live-stocli 721 



Ailcin, R. C 341, 657 



Apiary and home of Thaddeus Smith .... 417 

 Apiary at the Central Experimental Farm, 



Ottawa, Canada 353 



Apiary of — 



Apljer, T. S 356 



Bevias, Edwin 340 



Bingham, T. F 97 



Blessing, John H 209' 



Boomer, A 273 



Campbell, S, M 244 



Chapman, Wilford 452 



Coggshall ct Weeits 785 



Congdon, H. W 177 



Drexel, Franlf H 785 



Duffack. J.J 692 



Fisher & Beitel 805 



Forney, W. S 52 



Fourier, Ale.xander 26 



Fraser, A 113 



Gale, H. E 577 



Gathriglit, W. C 289 



Gill A: Francis 785 



Hopper, W. B 785 



Horslmann, W. H 609 



Housel, Wm 593 



Hunt, Fred H 33, 673 



Knott, C. E 401 



Kubin, A 42 



Michael, Samuel P 369 



Nielson, N 756 



Rodenberger, R 78 



Rozell, Albert 257 



Schweinhagen, Chas 337 



Sherman, J. Warren 129 



Sterling Bee Co 785 



Stewart, E. H 817 



Stinnett, R. T 785 



Weisner. Philip 373 



Whitmer, Daniel 573 



Attic-apiary of Rev. W. S. Sly 305 



Bee-hive 36 



Bee-hovise and residence of L. J. Claris. . . 212 



Bee-house of F. R. Webster 145, 503 



Birthplace of Chas. Dadant 467 



Booth, Levi 705 



Booth, Mrs. Levi 705 



British styles of frames 628 



"Buttertly apiaries" of Maynard D.Nichols 497 



Cave bee-cellar of C. H. Pierce 385 



Ciute, Rev. 193 



Co-gwheel depot at Manitou 876 



Colorado Agricultural College Apiary . . . 673 



Comb honey 36 



Comb honey display and Lincoln monu- 

 ment in beeswax at the Illinois State 



Fair 65, 68 



Cook, Miss Susie R 657 



Dadant, Chas 465, 561, 565 



Dadant, C. P 25, 561 



Dadant, L. C 561 



Doolittle, G. M 37 



Elliott, A 705 



Elliott ( A.) and apiary 673 



Evans, W. C • 705 



Experiment Apiary at the Texas Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College 545 



Feeder for feeding over the frames 279 



Field of alfalfa in full bloom 321 



Fisher (Mr. & Mrs.) and wax-extractor 



at work 804 



Forest of giant cacti 324 



Gallup, Dr. E 433 



Gandy, (Dr. J. L.) and home apiary 449 



Gill, M. A 057 



Gillette, Prof. C. P 689 



Half-way house and cog-track, Pike's Peak 676 



Hall (F.VV.) and apiary 161 



Harris, James C 625 



Hive bottom-board used by Dr. Miller. 70, 139 



Hive-marker and sections of honey .57 



Home apiary of A. Coppin 641 



Home apiary of A. Henthorn ifc Son 468 



Home apiary of Mrs. W. J. Pickard 265 



Honey and wax separator (Aikin'sj 234 



Honey-extractor 36 



Honey-wagon of A. Mottaz 87 



