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296, 323, 485; Shipping-cases on end in the 

 carrier 89; Sliipping-cases, — size of glass 124, 

 38fi, 450, 551, 581. 582, 646, 647, 678, 728; Ship- 

 ping-cases, twentieth-century 361; Shipping- 

 cases used by Dr. Miller 418; Shipping comb 

 honey, percent of breakage 355; Shipping full 

 colonies 504, 634; Shipping long distance on 

 unwired comb 205, 325; Shipping, necessity of 

 having wired combs 95; Show-case, double- 

 sided 660; Simplex-hive, how are closed-end 

 frames secured 667; Skunks, poisoning of 748; 

 Skunks troublesome in California 616; Sled, 

 moving an apiary on 95; Sleeping of bees 663; 

 Smoke and bees 537; Smoker, liow to hold 474; 

 Smoker, lighting with coal oil 648; Smokers 

 carried under wagon-box 183; Smokers, hold- 

 ing between knees 63; Smoker, use and abuse 

 of, Townsend on 277; Smoking at entrance 

 277, 322, 388, 435, 603, 604; Smoking bees from 

 comb, Townsend plan 300; Smoking bees, I. 

 Hopkins on 299; Smoking by rule impractical 

 597; Snow, abundance of on mountains in Colo- 

 rado 199; Somerford method, what is done with 

 queens? 52; Sorghum molasses safe if soda is 

 added 309; Sour and sweet honey in same can 

 12; Soured lioney, is it safe to feed 653; Sour- 

 ing of unsealed honey 636; Sour odor not from 

 goldenrod 149; Sour smell caused by mush- 

 room 333; Sour smell from aster honey 228, 257; 

 South America, bee-keeping in 242; South Da- 

 kota convention 187; Sparrows injure Rocky 

 Mountain bee-plant 584; Spider flower for 

 honey 472; Spiders an annoyance 733; Splints 

 as well as wire for foundation 322; Splints bet- 

 ter support than wire 529; Splints, split 

 bottom-bai-s in connection with 530, 614; Split 

 sections in open top holders 311; Spraying 

 blossoms, carrying bees in cellar during 160; 

 Spraying blossoms near Marengo 237; Spraying 

 cotton with paris green 537; Spraying sugar- 

 beet kills bees 647; Spray-pump for bringing 

 down swarms 505; Spring dwindling caused by 

 loss of queen 283; Spring dwindling caused by 

 poor honey 199; Spring dwindling caused by 

 poor wintering 92. 266; Spring dwindling in 

 Calitornia. prevention of 470; Staples for spac- 

 ing frames 88; Stealing eggs from another hive 

 604; Steam knife tried and abandoned 572; 

 Steam uncapping knife, objection to 451; 

 Stinging, attitude of bee-keeper toward 650; 

 Stings, what becomes of them 585; Stock vs. 

 colony 418; Strainers, gravity, see gravity 

 strainer; ■ Strainers, Rambler's plan for 15; 

 Strong colonies desert hive 51; Strong colonies 

 for the flow of honey-flow 34; Success, poem 

 765; Sugar-beet spray kills bees 647; Sugar. 

 brown, for bees 635, 646, 745; Sugar, price of 

 582, 616, 648; Sugar required to give certain 

 amount of sealed stores 185, 257; Sugar vs. 

 Sjrghum. for bees 309; Sulphur for fumigating, 

 danger cf using tio much 572: Supers, ar- 

 rangement of, Doolittle on 8; Supers, bees 

 freed from by cold 618; Supers, comb or ex- 

 tracting, which bees start in quicker 732; 

 Supers, do bees desert to keep themselves 

 warm 664, 748; Supers, eight-frame, on ten- 

 frame hive 584; Supers empty, where to locate 

 310; Supers, excluders under 537; Supers, how 

 to separate when stuck 537; Supers, shallow 

 vs. deep 252; Supers. T, from D. A. Jones 124; 

 Superseding queen by use of queen -cell 293; 

 Supersedure caused by poorly clipped queen 

 755; Supersedure of newly introduced queens 

 654; Supersedure, troubles from, in California 

 420; Supersedure, when does it occur 634; Sup- 

 plies, advantage rf ordering early ;i.'i; Swarm, 

 absconding, how far will it fly 558; Swarm 

 brought d'.iwn with a spray pump 50'); Swarm 

 catcher made of Alexander veil 376; Swarm 

 control by expanding or contracting 374; 

 Swarm control. Hand system without bottom- 

 board 207; Swarm, energy of when newly hived 

 263; Swarm, excluder for 484; Swarm flies 15 

 miles 727; Swarm having old queen and vir- 

 gin 418; Swarm hived on combs from which 

 it came 440; Swarm hived on the old stand 

 219, 237; Swarm hived with laying worker 

 colonv 376; Swarm hived with parent colmy 

 115; Swarm issued three days before starting 

 cells 661; Swarm prevention and bulk comb 

 honey production 251; Swarm prevention, 

 Hand's system 280; Swarm prevention, shak- 

 ing and Heddon plan compared 270; Swarm 

 prevention vs. control 621 ; Swarm prevention. 



Wm. N. Miller's plan 372; Swarming and its 

 cause. A. C. Miller on 560; Swarming baskets, 

 Mendelson's modification of 329; Swarming 

 controlled by tiering up 440; Swarming. Crane's 

 plan to prevent 208, 237, 356; Swarming, 

 does it occur after bees get startetd in supers 

 484; Swarming affected by age of queens 497; 

 Swarming instinct varies in different strains 

 34; Swarming, is it brought on by cells above 

 comb honey 490; Swarming, law of, formulated 

 457; Swarming, law of nature 616; Swarming 

 prevented by bottom ventilation 211, 324; 

 Swarming prevented by breeding 590; Swarm- 

 ing prevented by foundation under brood- 

 chamber 258; Swarming prevented by proper 

 care 182; Swarms allowed but increase pre- 

 vented 257; Swarms almost unknown 67; 

 Swarms, artificial in Switzerland 400; Swarms, 

 artificial, made with bee-escapes 418; Swarms, 

 beginners' questions on 474; Swarms caught by 

 bait-hives 5; Swarms clustered together 376; 

 Swarms, do thev issue same dav queens hatch 

 586, 646, 661, 696, 745; Swarms enter empty 

 hives 257; Swarms prevented by decapitating 

 brood 721; Swarms prevented by remo\ ing 

 brood 718; Swarms preventetd by shifting bees 

 471; Swarms prevented by triple-walled hives 

 241; Swarms, queer habitations of 420; Swarms 

 that have lost clipped queen 503; Swarms that 

 return to old hives 311, 439; Swarms, time of 

 day they issue 64; Swarms, to catch 265; 

 Swarms, uniting parent colonies 459; Swarms, 

 weight of, on the average 744; Swarms, what 

 happens when the queen is killed 297; Swarms, 

 why were there none 699; Sweet clover chokes 

 irrigating ditches 377; Sweet clover cow 247, 

 Sweet clover for honey-forage 223; Sweet 

 clover for horses 408; Sweet clover. Frank 

 Coverdale on 730; Sweet clover, George Shiber 

 on 727; Sweet clover in Colorado, who intro- 

 duced 264; Sweet clover in Iowa 571; Sweet 

 clover planted on sod 196; Sweet clover sown 

 on waste ground 726; Sweet clover sown with 

 other crops 502; Sweet clover, to teach stock 

 to like it 472; Switzerland, artificial swarms in 

 400: Switzerland, large association in 646; 

 Switzerland, pedigreed stock in 450; Syrup, 4 

 parts water to one of sugar 550; Svrup mixed 

 in copper vessel kills bees 386; Syrup, pro- 

 portions of for outdoor and indoor feeding 581 ; 

 Syrup, tartaric acid in 744. 



Tariff, effects of in Canada 197; Tariff on 

 honey, Byer on 125; Technical World, Bige- 

 low's article in 748; Temperature for comb 

 honey, 680; Temperature in cellar 26. 169; Tem- 

 perature inside of hive in winter 663, 664. 

 729; Temperature rises when bees are excited 

 124; Tennessee, conditions in 197; Tent. Grein- 

 er's portable 429; Texas convention report 408; 

 Texas honey-crop prospects 238; Texas Mes- 

 quite. economic value of 530; Texas prospect 

 682- Thrips, do thev destroy nectaries of flow- 

 ers? 647; Time required by bees to make a 

 trip 734; Toads a real pest in South America 

 242; Tobacco honev in Connecticut 268; To- 

 bacco, odor of, kills bees 171; Tongue, func- 

 tions of 664; Tools needed in bee-keeping 177; 

 Top-bar, 1 9-16 inch thick keeps queen out 

 of supers 581: Top-bar short, all right 386: 

 Transferring by placing old hive above 283; 

 Transferring, carbolic acid used in 717; Trans- 

 ferring direct into new hives, Townsend on 

 337- Transferring. Heddon plan of 634; Trans- 

 ferring, modification of Heddon pl^r 187; 

 Transferring, trouble in 408; Transparent paper 

 for comb honey 559; Trees, getting bees as 

 well as honev from 590. 731; Tropical cloth- 

 ing 719; Tupelo gum as a honey-plant :)96. 



Uncapping box vs. capping melter 216: Un- 

 capping by hand and by machinery, Town- 

 send on 395; Uncapping for power outfit 272; 

 Uncapping knife should have curved blade 583; 

 Uncapping knife, steam, objection to 451: Un- 

 capping knife, steam, tried and abandoned 572; 

 Uncapping knife with wide-bevel 421; Un- 

 capping machine tried by Townsend 395; Un- 

 finished sections, reason for 26: Uniting. Dr. 

 Miller's newspaper plan for 646: Uniting in the 

 fall. Doolittle on 618; Unsealed honey shifted 

 in cells 664; Unsealed honey, will it sour? 636. 

 A^egetable-cellar, bees in 635; Veil. Alexan- 

 der, as swarm catcher 376; Veil needed after 

 all 451- Veils. Scholl on 294; Ventilate, how 



