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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



Drones- 

 Importance ol' grood d., Tti; rearing d. from woi-kor 

 eggs, 77; what to do with live d., :.';il; d. brood in 

 upper stor3', -10:5; color of d., 447: d. with colored 

 eyes, 448; rearing d. and q. from one mother, 54a, 

 pure d. from Ital. q. mated with black d., 'I'.MJ. 



Early-Amber Sugar Cane— 



Clar. with clay, 35; CogswelTs report. :'(i; Awrey's 

 report, 41; Clement's report, 59: in Ni^\.i Scotia, 

 187; how to start, :.'39. 



Enemies of Bees— 



Hylocapa, 33; honey-beetle, 3;.'; mosquito hawk, 3;i, 

 385; mantis relig., 33; millers, to kill, 37, swallows, 

 S3; pine tyrosbeak, 13.i; implement to destroy 

 moih, 187; toads, 187; asi. miss., 4.55; blue-jays, 

 .507; mason bees, 537; mall. bom.. 537; lady-birds, 

 550; ants, 553, ()05. 



Extractors and Extracting — 



E., 4-frame, 140; another aid for ext., illus., 333; 

 Dadanl's pamphlet on ext., 343; an ex. for loc, 

 451. 



Feeders- 

 Washboard f., 87; Hain's, illus., 133; Large's f., 345; 

 the tin-pan, 434; De Worth's, 477; bread-pan f., illus., 

 478; dlf. with atmos. f., .55(i. 



Feeding Oecs— 



F. new swarms, 37; f. comb h., 40; tilling combs with 

 honey for f., 43; f. back ext. honey, 130; early f. to 

 get much honey, 175: Hour f. inside of h., 334; f. in 

 open air, 3!J6, 343; f. candy in spring, 345; f. in 

 July, 378; sugar vs. nat. stores, 394; syrup for b., 

 397; fruit-can f., 503; comp. value ot sugar and 

 honey, 547; C coffee vs. A., 550; f. flour in fall, 55;^. 



Foreign Countries— 



Scotland, 13, .558; Benton from Ceylon, 168; South 

 America, 450. 



Foul Brood- 

 Foul b., 19, 64; DooHttle's big article. 118; laws of 

 Mich, relative to, 131, 143; in Utah, 396; Harbison's 

 views, 337. 

 Foundation- 

 Sagging of all kinds of f., 17; Bonham's process with 

 f., 36; prepared paper for base of f., 36; to prevent 

 f. sticking, 76; dipped f., 77; Faris f. mach., 86, 370; 

 Foster's mach. lur f., 112, 190; wax vs. wires to 

 prevent sagging, 139, dipping f., 143; f. from rub- 

 ber, 166, 355, 368, 360, 397, 604; Fariier's mach. to 

 fasten f., 381; to fasten f. in frame, 395; soap root 

 for f. rollers, 334; how Jarrett fastens f., 347; in- 

 ventor of f , 351; Hanford's new tool to fasten f., 

 403; molded f., 504; Dadant on f., trans., 541; f. 

 without wires, 553. 

 Frames — 



How to wire f., illus., 334; closed top, 391. 

 Grape Sugar- 

 Advantage of g. s , 39, 446; for wint., 377, 181; purity 

 of, 373; sale <.f, 385; in the South. 403; not always 

 deadly, 433, 601. 

 Hives and Fixingrs ~ 



Seps. of pcrf. metal, 10; I'/i story. 84; best position 

 for ent., 86; mammoth h., 78, 350; bolt )m-bars of 

 thin hoop iron, 85; a queen-rearing h., illus., Ill; 

 Heddon's, illus., 116; painting h., 134; L. frame f<ir 

 cold climates, l:i6; pcrf. seps., 187; frames with 

 bars only half way down, 137; paper and wood 

 seps, 141; trans, clasps, 169; chaff h. for summer, 

 177; Jackson on box h, 185; tenement h, 191; K )<>p's 

 h, 193; Htddon on box h, 319; bottom-boards of 

 stone, 331; chaff h. vs. Simp, in S. C, 338; Bliss im- 

 plement for wiring frames, 368,- tenement h, 3J4; 

 h. on benches. 396; box h. vs. Simp., 397; chaff h. 

 for wint., 335, 346, 449, 450; starters, full size of 

 honey-boxes. 391; Todd's views on chaff' h, 399; 

 fide-opening h, 400; views on the L. frame, 433, .503, 

 536; Brooks' single-wallr^d h, 440; washing h, 448; 

 novel chaff' h, 451; cheap ohs. h, 475; honey-boards 

 and chaff, 490; patent h, 498, 538; seps. or not, 518; 

 sawdust to pack h, 533; imp. of div. boards, 541; 

 protected bottom-boards, 593; shall we use seps.'r" 

 610. 

 Honey- 

 Medicated h, 86; heather-h. in Scotland, 91; bitter h, 

 91; h. on posts and bushes, Ladd, 133; h. gran, in 

 comb, 136; nrtificial comb, h, 139; to tell source of, 

 140; h. for sore eves, 1+4; labels for h, 166, 360; 

 making labels stick to tin, 187, 60U; first b. for 1881, 



194; tin cans for retailing h, 337; Doolittle on side 

 and top storing, 333; ext. old h, 340; new h, 390; h. 

 from red clover, 391; bleaching h, ,394: h. required 

 for 1 lb. of bees, 343; newly gathered gran, h, 399; 

 lOOU tons of h, 436; marking weight of h, 439,5.59; 

 how to get h, 443; 10,000 lbs. of h., 451; ext. h. sour- 

 ing, 4:>j; h. in Aug., 4.53; h. from corn, 499; thin h. 

 souring, 551; ext. vs. str. h. .556; h. to ship bees by 

 pound, 559; h. in New Brunswick. 5.59: storing anil 

 keeping h, 591; bad h, 39,5. 



Honey-deiv - 



Honey-d, origin of, '.12: in the cast, 119; in Oregon. 

 131,34(1; in South Carolina, :543; in Arkansas, 350; 

 from the clouds. 374; in Tennessee, 450; black h.d, 

 454; bad, .5.59. 



Honey-Plants - 



i Corn, 11, 80, .595, 610, 611; cotton, 11, 5.58; mallows. 13; 

 i mignonnette, 13; Simpson, 13, 63, 344, 355; willow, 

 ; 14,38,91,333, 373, .587; experiments with h.p, Hollen- 

 I bach, 33; tireweed, 36; t)lue thistle, 37, 190; Lane 

 i on red clover, 38; peach-blossoms, 41; cottonwood, 

 ! 41, 85, 86; Spider, 63; Hasty's clovers, 78; alsike 

 ! clover, 36; red clover, 83,344, 391,517; black wil- 

 low, 83; Fontaine's exp. with, 87; alfalfa, 91; Cal. 

 white sage, 93; silver buckw, 93, 399, 489; flaxweed, 

 93; omons, 117, 176, 396; bo.x-eider, 130, 186, 394; 

 skunk cabbage, 137, 333; portulaca, 139; rape, 140, 

 141; black-heart, 140; buckwheat in N. Y., 141; 

 wild cucumber, 143; Chinese tea-plant, 144, 338; 

 basket willows, 170; to start seeds, 186; green corn. 

 189; sugar-cane, 35.5; from Denmark, 373; aspen- 

 tree, 374; sending seedlings by mail, 377; huckle- 

 berry, 334, 438; locust, 343, 503, 504; ilex dahoon, 

 391; horscmint in Texas, 393; willow roots, 394, 

 611; rape, 403; basswood, 446; Mollie Heath, 447; 

 Hercules club, 455; pycnanthemum linifol., 455; 

 picnan. pil., 4,55; ascle. tube, 455; plan. Ian., 455; 

 raspberries, 480; Sp. needles, 498; R. M. bee plant, 

 500; buckwheat, 506, 599; veron. Vir., 510; mentze- 

 lia, 536; loasacesc, .536; blue vervain, 539; big red 

 clover. 540; smartweed, or polyg. persi., 540; wire- 

 weed, 550; rapp, or winter rape, 553; h.p. in Oct. 

 and Nov., 567; oak, 601, 611; lireweed, 606; peas, 

 611; butter-weed, 606. 



Introducing^— 



Int. Itals. among blacks, etc. :>;; Bugg's sug. on i, 

 38; how Stanley i, 74; I'armelee's mode, 87; Gal- 

 lop's plan, 233; i. a queen to a hive having one, 

 400; i. by frames of hatching brood, 501; Hooper's 

 new plan, 604. 



Merrjbaulis— 



46, 60, 150, 301, 344, .305, 350, 410, 507, 560, 579. 



Notes from Banner Apiary— 



7, 59, 111, 163, 315, 367, 319,371, 433, 47.5, 535, 687. 



Pollen— 



P. in Nov, 30; p and dys, 166, 189, 600; influence of 

 pondys, 3.53; p for brood-rearing. 344; p cause of 

 d*^ath,350; p from timothy. 381; wint. without p, 

 389; too much, 447, ,503; Ballantine on p. 493; p, 

 Peters' opinion, 5.39; p too close to bees, 558. 



Propolis- 

 Uses of p, 378. 



Queens— 



Q. ejejted in winter, 38; parody on black q, 37; q. 

 reared at dif. seasons, 69; should dollar q. produce 

 bees nine-tenths black'? 83; accepting vir. q, 83; 

 art. and nat. q,83, .593; q. dead before ent., 89; how 

 Cons^r raises q, 134; rearing q. out of season, 163; 

 Cyp. and Holy-Land q, 166; to tell age. 177, 340, .S44; 

 how q. sting each other, 177; fert. fall-reared q in 

 spring, 179; our red-clover q, 189; int. vir. q, 193; 

 drone-layina' q, 341; Alley's mode i tint., 341; clip- 

 ping, 366; Gallup on rearing'), 377; wortliless q, 

 391; Ital. q. turning black, 391; (j. with laying 

 daughter, 343; marking q, 344; twoq. wint. in one 

 hive, 344; non-layers, 348. 46); art. and nat. swarm- 

 ing q. 373; how Doolittle rears good q, 37.5, 439; 

 trials inreannar q,389; dollar q.in poor season, 395; 

 dif. in q, 3H6; Williams' mode of int.. 398; q. extra- 

 pure, 434, 603; Itals. on red clover, 435; Buchanan 

 on roaring q. 445: two in a c^ll. 447; a q. that 

 stings workers. 448, ,556; (] who.se daughters pro- 

 duce 3-banded workers. 483; sending q far in Aug, 

 495; three q. in a h've, 498: q. fisfhiing in air. 600; 

 inducing q. to take bridal trip, .500: q-cells vs. 

 queenlessness, ,505; imp»-ovement in appearance, 

 506; q. that lay non-hatching eggs. 606; laving q. 

 from each nucleus once in 10 days. 537; q. that will 

 sting', 544; caglng'^vir. q, 546; q. Hying 37 miles, 550; 



