American Hee Journal 



Contents for October, 1907 



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Illusth.-vtions— 



An Out-Door Colony 680 



Apiary of M. A. Salazar 680 



Apiarian E.xhibit of C. M. Nichols at 



Two ilichigan Fairs 680 



Cleome Apiary of Geo. D. Caley- 1st Paee 

 Pounding Out Sweet Clover Seed 692 



Editorial Notes and Comments — 



Attachment of Sections to Separators 678 

 Beginners Should Study Foul Brood •■ ■ 677 



Comb Honey by E.xpress 678 



Does the Queen Will the Egg-Sex ?. . . . 680 



Double-Oueen Plan-Dr. Miller's 677 



E-\-tracting-Combs On Till Close of 



Season ■ 678 



Get a Bee-Book-Good Advice 680 



Get Good Prices for Your Honey and 



Don't Fool It Away 679 



Grading E.xtracted Honey 679 



Honey Market for 1907 677 



How to Get Good Prices 679 



National Convention at Harrisburg 677 



New Way of Introducing Queens 677 



Producing an Article that Enables the 



Producer to Set the Price 679 



Producing Best E.xtracted Honey 678 



Spring Stimulation of Brood-Rearing- 680 

 Two Queens or More in One Colony — 678 



Miscellaneous News-Items— 



Advertising Honey for Sale 681 



Apiarian Exhibit of C. M. Nichols 681 



Apiary of .M. A. Salazar 680 



Bee-Keeping in Bermuda 683 



British Bee-Keeiiers' Guide-Book 682 



Central Tennessee Convention 682 



Getting a Late Honey Crop 681 



Great Big •• Bee-Cave " 682 



"Honey-Guides" for the Bees 681 



Mr. Caley's Cleome Apiary. 681 



Mr. Strong at the Clannda Fair 681 



National's Membership 680 



Northern Illinois Convention GS2 



Pleased with the .Monthly 682 



Queen-Mating Station 682 



Spanish Bee-Paper. 681 



Southern Beedom— 



Bulk or Chunk Honey. Etc 682 



I aucasian Bees vs. Italian Bees 682 



De Bizzy Honey-Bee (Poem) 682 



Not Good Fall Prospects 682 



Superseding of Young Queens 682 



Contributed Articles— 



Are a Queen's Drones Affected by Her 



Mating? 687 



Bacteria of the Apiary 687 



Bee Dysentery 688 



Cultivation of Disease-Germs 688 



Curing Apiaries of Foul Brood 686 



■ Food Value of Honey as Compared 



With Other Food Stuffs 689 



Foul Brood 688 



Have Bees Reasoning Powers? 685 



Rendering Combs into Beeswax 684 



Spores of Honey 688 



Syrup for Feeding Bees 684 



" Ups " and " Downs " of Bee-Keeping 686 

 Wonderful Organs of the Bee 685 



Our Bee-Keeping Sisters— 



Beginning With Bees 691 



Harvesting Sweet Clover Seed 692 



Sister's Experience in South Africa. .. 692 



Sister's Report and Experience 691 



Starved Bees 691 



Swarm Settling on a Sister's Face 692 



Beedom Boiled Down— 



Breeding for Non-Swarming 695 



Empty Comb, Not Empty Space, Pre- 

 vents Swarming 695 



Hu-tchinson and Late Swarming 695 



Longevity of Bees 692 



Root Routs Robber-Bees 695 



Several Queens in One Hive Without 



Excluder 695 



Vitality of Queen's Eggs 692 



Wintering Queens the Third Winter-- 682 



Can.-\dian Beedom— 



Bee-Management for Beginners 693 



Bees and Horticulture 693 



Fall Honey Crop a Failure 693 



McEvoy Treatment of Foul Brood 693 



Short CroD and Honey Exhibits 693 



Stingless Bees .All Dead 693 



Doctor Miller's Question-Box— 



Ants in Hives 696 



Bees Troubled With Moth-Larvae 697 



Breeding Up for Winter 698 



Drones from Mismated Queen 698 



Feeding Back Honey in Shallow 



Frames 696 



Getting Rid of Ants 696 



Honey Deteriorating on Hive 698 



Increase 696 



Introducing Queens 697 



Kind of Hive, Frames, Honey. Bees, 



Etc 698 



Moving Bees 696 



Old Honey-Extractor 697 



Preparing for Winter 696 



Queen Passing Through Entrance- 

 Guard 697 



Queer Noise Among Bees 697 



Replacing Brood-Combs. 696 



Swarm Deserting 697 



Tiering Up Hives in Wintering 696 



Using Brood-Frames for Extracting 



Frames '. 697 



Ventilating Hives 696 



Reports and Experiences— 



About Half a Honey-Yield 698 



Backward Season 699 



Bee-Culture Discouraging 699 



Catnip 699 



Fair Honey Crop. 698 



Fall Honey Crop Promised 699 



Gasoline for Foul-Broody Combs 698 



Good Fall Honey-Flow 699 



Hard Year for Bees 699 



Honey for Local Demand 699 



Light Honey Crop 699 



May Be a Fair Fall Flow 698 



No Honey 699 



No Honey or Half a Crop 698 



Poor Honey Season 699 



Poor Prospects for Fall Flow 699 



Poor Season for Bees 699 



Psoralea. 699 



Starting With Bees 699 



Sumac 699 



Very Little Honey.... - 699 



Very Poor Season 699 



Wormwood 699 



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