Jan. 1. 1912 



tlie bt=es do it 4iJ; Ventilating cellar by draw- 

 ing out stale air 113 ; Ventilation at entrance 

 during winter 433; Ventilation during hot 

 weather, Townsend on 75; Ventilation, is it re- 

 quired at the top? 450; Ventilation, lack of in 

 cellar 25; Ventilation of hives 632; Vermont, 

 European foul brood in 451; Virginia, informa- 

 tion wanted about 148; Virgins, how soon they 

 1 Hgin to lay 516; Virgin supersedes old queen 

 116. 



Wages of apiarists 113; Wasp-nest in section 

 of honey. Parson on 70; Wasps enter hives 

 with bees 228: Wasps making much trouble 

 6:6, 733; Wasps, to poison 636. 646: Wasps 

 work in section of honey 16; Water better 

 than smoke for cross bees 744; Water in early 

 ! uring necessary 293; Water needed even when 

 thin syrup is fed 6; Wax, amount of, in old 

 combs 636; Wax and honey, amount produced 

 in U. S. 377; Wax from old combs, Doolittle on 

 64; Wax from slum-gum thrown away 5; "V^^ax, 

 purity tests for 488. 520; W'ax. rendering with 

 Hatch press 521: Wax, running bees for 76; 

 Wax separator, Severin's 756; Weak colony, to 

 make robber proof 26; Weighing device, auto- 

 matic 661; Weighing-device, Mclntyre's 114: 

 Weighing-device, Mclntyre's. objections to 

 160; Weight of different brood-combs varies 

 60; Weight of honey brought in each day 622, 

 745; Weight of honey consumed by colony in 

 year 745; Weight of jelly-tumbler of honey 

 409; Weight of nectar carried into hive in sea- 

 son 744: \Vlieelbarrow for carrying 120 lbs. of 

 honey 722; Wheel-barrow, home-made 527; 

 White clover, plenty of in Texas 357; White 

 clover thick near Marengo 354; White sage 

 in California 387, 402, 552; Willow-herb and 

 raspberry of Northern Michigan 102; Willow 

 yields honey in Canada 389; Wilson, Mrs. Mar- 



garet 659: Winds, cool, bees sensitive to 418; 

 Winds in Colorado, cause of 62; Winter cluster 

 below frames 151: Wintering colonies light in 

 stores 765; Wintering, English methods 9; 

 Wintering in cellar at 33 degrees 169; Winter- 

 ing in cellar, Townsend on 43; Wintering in 

 outer cases, Holtermann on 695; Wintering in 

 single-walled hives in New York 171; Winter- 

 ing in warm room 114; Wintering on summer 

 stands. Tillinghast on 664; Wintering outdoors 

 in New York 563; Wintering poorly causes 

 spring dwindling 92: Wintering surplus ot 

 queens 221, 436. 733; Wintering two colonies in 

 a box 636; Wintering two queens in one hive 

 636; Winter in Ontario severe 197; Winter, 

 keeping tops of hives warm in 537; Winter- 

 killing of clover 86, 266: Winter-nest, E. R. 

 Root on 19; Winter nest. Foster on 62; Winter- 

 nests, Crane on 745; Winter nests, peculiar 

 239; Winter nest varies in position 124; Win- 

 ter nest vs. solid combs of honey 32, 65, 67, 

 97, 134, 135; Winter packing, cork-dust not 

 suitable for 678; Winter packing, dry sawdust 

 for 713; Winter stores, consumption of in Can- 

 ada 266; Winter stores, making sure of in 

 Danzenbaker hive 631; 'Winter ventilation of 

 entrance 433: Winter work, McCain on 685; 

 Wire-reel for wiring frames 238; Wires and 

 splints for supporting foundation 322; Wires 

 necessary in combs that must bo shipped 95; 

 Worker-cells vary in size 88; Worker comb 

 torn down and drone comb built 293, 355, 485, 

 516, 680; Workers, drones and queens 145; 

 Workers, how long do they live? 519. 



Yellow sweet clover, both annual and bi- 

 enniel 376: Yellow sweet clover, good yield of 

 honey from 164; Yew-tree as honey plant 343; 

 Yield per colony, average 678; Yucca trunk 

 bee-hive 75. 



EDITORIALS. 



Adulterations of honey by glucose 482: Ad- 

 vanced Bee Culture, new edition of 158; Adver- 

 tising, honest 415; Anderson, visit from 644; 

 Answers and questions in GLEANINGS 580; 

 Apiary, where to locate 319; Apicultural school 

 in Massachusetts 351; Apiculture at Syracuse 

 University 57: Apiculture taught at Ontario 

 Agi-icultural College. Canada 193: Apiculture, 

 the increased appropriation for 236; Appalachi- 

 cola River in Florida 234; Appropriation in 

 Ohio for foul-brood 193; Arcadia has to move 

 383; Australia bee-keeping 233; Automobile 

 for foul-brood inspection work 383; Automo- 

 biles for bee-keepers 613, 70.^: Automobiles, 

 transmission for 613: Avant i Ian for sucking 

 honey out of combs 645. 



Battle Creek paper on honey 353; Bee-culture 

 at Syracuse University 57; Bee fixings too 

 complicated 262; Bee journalism in America 

 today 547; Bee-keeping for women 1; Bee- 

 keeping in Australia 233; Bee-keeping in Mary- 

 land 547; Bee-keeping in New Zealand 57: Bee 

 loss in Southern California 351: Bee-vard. lo- 

 cating 319; Bees and fruit 233, 513; Bees at 

 the California apple show 643; Bees, black, not 

 immune to European foul-brood 612; Bees by 

 the carload to a warmer climate 57: Bees, 

 color sense of 1; Bees, how wintering 194; 

 Bees killed by spraying 447: Bees less in one 

 apiary 289: Bees more quiet to handle under a 

 cage than outdoors 612; Bees, mortalitv of in 

 California 289; Bees moving short distances 

 352, 548; Bees not guilty as charged 513; Bees, 

 shutting in hives during spraying 123; Bee- 

 stings, are they ever fatal 580; Bees, why they 

 do not go into supers 383: Beeswax, amount in 

 drawn comb 711; Beeswax explosion 31: 

 Beuhne on capping-melters 482: Bigelow has 

 to move 383: Black bees not immune to Euro- 

 pean foul-brood 612: Black queens, how to find 

 447. 612; Blended-whiskey people 448; Board- 

 man's feeder improved 483; Boardman's feeder 

 to stimulate brood rearing 549; Brood-rearing 

 hastened bv slow feeding 483; Brood-rearing 

 in the South 290; Brood specimens, sending, to 

 \Vashington 260; Buckwheat a paying crop 548; 

 Buckwheat in the comb not in demand 259; 

 Bulletin from Maryland on bee-keeping 547; 

 Bulletin r-n "Bees" 351 : Bulletin on the honev- 

 plants of California 709; Bulletins on foul- 

 brood 320: Bureau of Entomology increase ap- 



propriation 236: Buzz-saws and home-made 

 hives 319; Byer on winter nests 157. 



Cage, bees more quiet in handling under 

 612; California department 351; California, loss 

 of bees in 351; California, mortality of bees in 

 289; California, rain and bad weather in 193; 

 Canadian Bee Journal on eight-frame hive 2; 

 Candied comb honey 29; Candy in queen cages 

 for carrying foul-brood 481; Capping-melter 

 and wax separators, improvements in 645; 

 Capping-melters as viewed by producers 30; 

 Capping-melters, how they discolor honey 482; 

 Carbolic-acid solutions to prevent robbing 415; 

 Carloads of bees to a warmer climate 57; 

 Carniolans vs. Italians for the South 290; Car- 

 tons in shipping-cases 384; Caucasian vs. Ital- 

 ians for the South 290: Cereal honey, using 

 honey for 676; Chaff hive. Root's old two- 

 story 260: Charges against Wiley 449: Cincin- 

 nati as a honev market 123: Clover growing by 

 Prof. Brooks 351; Clover taking a start 643; 

 Clover, winter killing 86; Coffee, using honey 

 676: Collier's Weekly and comb honey 86; 

 Colony short of stores, sugar too high 611; 

 Color sense of honey bee 1; Comb honey and 

 Collier's W'eekly 86: Comb honey canard in 

 Indianapolis paper 121; Comb honey candied 29; 

 Comb honey, fancy 1: Comb honey grading, 

 importance of honest 30: Comb honey in bet- 

 ter shipping-cases 122; Comb honey that 

 stands shipment best 260; Controlling swarms, 

 .7. E. Hand's method 385; Control of swarm- 

 ing 234; Convention of Indiana State Bee- 

 keepers 87; Convention. Ohio 1; Convention, 

 Ohio State at Cincinnati 123; Conventions in 

 Ohio and Indiana 29: Copv. surplus of for 

 GLEANINGS 29; Corrugated paper in ship- 

 ping-cases 85; Corrugated-paper shipping- 

 cases of the Crane type 86; Cotton-plant 

 spraying kills bees 579: Cover picture for No- 

 vember 15th 675; Crane shipping-cases 86. 



Death of Hutchinson 353; Department edi- 

 tors, ours 58; Diagnosing at the entrance 416; 

 Disease of bees, government on 2: Dr. Miller's 

 new book on bees 514; Drawn comb, amount 

 of wax in 711; Drouth in Florida 193. 



Editor's department 58; Eggs, do queens lay 

 unfertile 383; Eight vs. ten-frame hive, see 

 Hive 261; Entrance diagnosing 416; Euro- 

 pean authorities confused on the two kinds 

 of foul-brood 58, 59; Explosion of beeswax 31; 



