American ^ee Joarnal 



Contents for August, 1907 



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Illustrations— 



A Mountain Apiary 1st Page 



Hot- Water Wax-Press 632 



New Way (The) 625 



OldWay(The) 625 



Ruakura State Apiary, New Zealand- ■ 617 

 StoUey, William 621 



Editorial Notes and Comments — 



Beet versus Cane Sugar 614 



Dual Introduction of Virgin Queens. •■ 613 



Fastening a Queen-Cell in a Hive 613 



Prices of 1907 Honey 613 



Where Do the Field-Bees Deposit 

 Their Loads ? 614 



Miscellaneous News-Items— 



Apiarian Photographs 615 



Bee-Keeping in New Zealand 617 



Books for Bee-Keepers 615 



California Bee-Ranches 615 



Death of a New York Bee-Keeper 614 



Definition of Honey.. 616 



Fair Apiarian E.xhibits 616 



" Forty Years Among the Bees" 617 



From a Weekly to a Monthly 614 



German " A B C of Bee-Culture " 615 



Getting New Subscriptions. 616 



Labeling Honey for Market 615 



Opportunities of Today 617 



Post-Master Bee-Keeper 615 



Remarkably Late Season 614 



Size of Cells in Foundation 633 



Subscription Credits 615 



The Bee-Man (poem) 615 



Wisconsin State Inspector's Report ■ • 632 



Our Bee-Keeping Sisters— 



H ybrid Bees vs. Italians — 617 



Some Sounds of the Bee 618 



Contributed Articles— 



Apiarian Progress 619 



Demand for Propolis 623 



From Foreign Fields, With Notes 622 



Parcels Post and Technical High 



Schools 620 



Spring Stimulative Feeding of Bees-- 623 



" 'Tis Sixty Years Ago " 619 



Transferring Bees from Box-Hives — 619 



Visit to a Nebraska Bee-Keeper 621 



Under Cross-Examination on Matters 



Apiarian 624 



Southern Beedom— 



Against Handling the Bees During the 

 Honey-Flow - 624 



Keeping Colonies Always Strong 624 



Work for Improvement 625 



Canadian Beedom— 



Another Poor Honey Season 625 



Heavy Loss of Bees 626 



Making Increase by Dividing Colonies 626 



Methods of Rendering Beeswax 626 



Requeening Colonies 626 



Beedom Boiled Down— 



Alexander Plan for Weak Colonies 628 



Annual Renewal of Combs 627 



Automobiles Condemned 627 



Bee-Moth a Good Thing— In Some Re- 

 spects 628 



Big Price for Honey in South Africa... 628 



Carbolic Acid for Swarms 627 



Controlling Queen-Fertilization 627 



Cow with a .Sweet Tooth 628 



Dead-Beat Honey-Buyers 627 



Deep Tank for Clearing Honey 627 



Foot-Room When Uncapping or Ex- 

 tracting 628 



Give the Bees Their Share 628 



Hardiness of Golden Bees 628 



Jarring Embryo Queens 627 



Moth-Infested Skep 627 



Poor Consolation 628 



Prevention of Sagging 628 



Putting Empty Supers Over Full Ones 628 



Testing for Honey-Gathering 627 



Washington State Commission Law... 628 



Doctor Miller's Question-Box— 



Balled Queens 629 



Bees Don't Work in Supers 629 



Dividing Colonies 628 



Introducing Queens 628 



Italian Bees and Yellow Bands 629 



Jumbo and Dadant-Blatt Hives 629 



Late-Reared Queens — 629 



Nucleus and Swarming-Questions 629 



Putting on Sections 628 



Queen and Nuclei Questions 630 



.Storing Honey Near the Apiary 629 



Wintering Virgin Queens 629 



Reports and Experiences- 



Air-Slacked Lime for Robber-Bees 630 



Bee-Keeping Children 631 



Bees Hauling Out Drones 631 



Bees Outdoing Themselves 630 



Bees Storing in Supers. 631 



Bees Wintered Badly 630 



Bees Working Well. 631 



Booming on Clover 631 



Fine Honey-Country. 631 



He Has Bee-Fever 631 



Hope for a Fair Crop 631 



Light Honey-Flow 630 



Light Honey-Flow in Mexico 630 



Not a Big Crop Expected 631 



Nucleus Method of Increase 631 



Pecos Valley Country 630 



Poor Spring for Bees 631 



Season So Far 631 



Two Queens Laying in Same Hive 631 



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