578 



July, 1907. 



American lee Journal 



Contents for July, 1907 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



GEORGE W.YORK 8 COMPANY 



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Honey as a Health-Food.— This is a 16- 

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 tells where to keep honey, how to liquefy it, 

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Illustrations— 



Apiary of Charles Clark, in Cook Co.. 



Ill 1st Page 



Map of Dadant Apiaries . ■ ■ ■ 582 



Mohr Honey-Extractor 58s 



Putting F'oundation in Sections 587 



Super-Filler— Dr. Miller's 588 



White Broom 597 



Editorial Comments— 



Better Top Protection 582 



Dandelion as a Honey-Plant 582 



Get a Text-Book on Bees 581 



Keeping the (Jueen i:lut of Sections — 581 



Mohr Extractor* Swiss Invention 582 



Plan Now for Surplus Honey 581 



Prevention of Second Swarms 581 



-Scissors for Oueen-Clipping 582 



Signsof Swarming 582 



Two Queens in a Hive 382 



"We Be(e) Brethren" 581 



When to Give a Super to a Swarm 581 



Miscellaneous News-Items— 



Address of A. J.King 583 



" Apicultural Investigations" 583 



Benton's (Mr.) Search for New Bee- 

 Races. 583 



From a Weekly to a Monthly 583 



Important Announcement 583 



Inspectors of Apiaries' Report 583 



Missouri State Inspector of Apiaries.- 583 



National Membership 583 



Worcester Co. (Mass.) Field-Meeting ■ 583 



Contributed Articles— 



Hive Bottom-Boards 586 



How Far Do Bees Go for Nectar ? 584 



Rearing Pure Queens 586 



Season of 1907 601 



Some Queen Questions Answered 585 



Specialists in Bee-Keeping 601 



Vegetable Physiology and Honey 601 



Our Bee-Keeping Sisters— 



Bee-Sting Cure 587 



Bees Capture a New Home 588 



"Emma" Means " Houey-Bees " 587 



Retarding Swarming 587 



Super-Filler 588 



T-Super Dimensions. Springs, Etc 587 



Mr. Hasty's Afterthoughts— 



Detecting a Honey-Flow 588 



Lyman Method of Swarm-Control 588 



Putting on Extra .Supers 588 



Three Yellow Sweet Clovers 589 



Various Kinds of Fool Swarms 589 



" Wheelbarrowing " Colonies .SSS 



Canadian Beedom — 



Alexander Plan of Building Up Weak 



Colonies 589 



Bees Starved in the Cellar 589 



Busy With the Bees 589 



" Cold and Backward Season " 589 



Dark Bees the Hardiest 589 



" .Swarming Surprise " 590 



Southern Beedom— 



Distance Bees Forage Profitably 5SI0 



Organized Effort -Among Bee-Keepers. 591 

 Program and Premium List of Texas 



State Convention 591 



Pure Food Laws • 591 



" Snowy-White " Drones 590 



Doctor Miller's Question-Box— 



Armstrong Super. 596 



Average Yield Per Colony 593 



Bad Weather Conditions 593 



Bee-Houses or Hive-Covers .. 594 



Bee-Keeping 593 



Bees Deserting a Nucleus-Hive 592 



Bees Superior to Blacks 595 



Bees' Use of Water 594 



Black Bees from an " Italian " Queen.- 593 | 

 Brushing Bees at Night 593 



Clipping Queens 595 



Cow- Peas .594 



Difference in Bee-Eggs 594 



Do Bees Carry Eggs or Larvfe ? 592 



Keeping Bees Over Winter 592 



Nearness of Apiary to Highway 594 



No Quilt Over Bees 594 



Observation Hives 594 



Plan of Wintering Bees 595 



Queen Questions 595 



Rearing Queens and Superseding 592 



Replacing Queens that Die in the 



Mails 592 



Ripening Honey 595 



Settling Swarms 594 



Shiny Bees 595 



Shipping-Crates 593 



Sizeof Cells 594 



Splints in Foundation 593 



Stingless Bees • 593' 



Straight Wired Combs from Starters.. 595 



Swarming 594 



Three Swarms in Two Weeks 593 



Transferred Bees 595 



Wash-Boardy Honey 593 



What Ails the Bees ? 593 



Wintering in Danzenbaker Hives 595 



Reflections of California Bee-Keeper 



Cheap Hives • 



Late Rains 



Painting Hives 



Slaughter of the Drones 



Tree-Clover or White Broom. 

 Weather in California 



Beedom Boiled Down- 



Be Charitable 



Doesn't Like Fences and Plain Sec- 

 tions 



Five Banders Not Hardy 



Gait of the Bee. 



Home Bee-Song 



Just Plain Horse-Sense 



Nom de Plumes 



Number of Colonies to the Apiary 



Out-Door Feeding 



Prices of Extracted Honey 



Protective Value of Tarred Paper---. 



Sampling Honey With Wooden Tooth- 

 picks ; 



Spring Management and Swarming... 



Taking More than One Bee-Paper 



Yellow Sweet Clover on the Same 

 Land Each Year 



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Reports and Experiences- 



All Colonies Light 



Bees are Backward 



Bees Carrying Water at Night.- 



Bees Doing Better 



Best Year m a Long Time 



Building Up for the Fall Crop..- 



Coldest Spring in 24 Years 



Cold Season for Bees.. 



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Cold Spring. -^- ■■■ 599 



Discouraging Outlook bOl 



Feeding the Bees -599 



Finding Queens 601 



First Alfalfa Flow ... bOO 



First Recorded Midnight Play-Spell 



of Young Bees 600 



Good Place for Bees 60! 



Handling Bees for Others 601 



Heavy Loss of Bees 5!« 



Honey Crop a Failure 600 



Honey-Yield Small 600 



Kerosene for Robber-Bees 600 



Late and Cold Season 601 



Light Crop of Honey 599 



Much Swarming SiW 



No Bloom and No Honey 600 



No Prospects for Surplus Honey 600 



Poor Prospect for Honey 5»J 



Poor Season, but Improving btW 



Poor Season for Bees. 600 



Queen's Laying 601 



Starved Brood. 599 



Still Feeding the Bees 600 



Swarming and Working Sections 600 



Very Cold Spring bOO 



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