GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



compartment 879; Mating-box, triplet, positions of 

 cluster 200; Mating-box, three compartments 140, 

 199, 670, 792; Mating-nuclei at Alexander's 1576; 

 McGlade on preserving fruit with honey 1176; Mc- 

 glade's poem on poultry 1587; Mesquite, no yield 

 from in Texas 874; Mice in cellars, how to kill 

 80; Michigan, bee-keeping in 814; Miller at work 

 among bees 1227; Miller's tool for imbedding 

 wedges 1579; Mirror for hive and swarms 671; 

 Moisture in hive 639; Moisture, bad effects of in 

 cellar 431; Moss for closing entrances 73; Moths 

 and Butterflys 572; Moving bees with open en- 

 trances 441, 1068; Moving bees a short distance 

 1190; Moving bees 1107; Moving bees to prevent 

 loss 744; Moving bees in the darK 504; Moving bees, 

 Coggshall on 744; Moving bees, hives breaking 

 open 1108; Moving bees, best time for 151; Moving 

 bees, questions on 829; Moving bees, staples to 

 fasten hive 1107; Moving bees, closing entrances 

 73; Muscles, Prof. Cook on 1489. 



Nails picked up by magnet 927 ; N--' ^^ifantage 

 of different sizes 873; Nails, tc . up 873; Nail- 



ing frames 741; Naked colonies in Europe 1227; 

 Naming bees, difficulty in 505; National conven- 

 tion, date and place of meeting 344; National at 

 San Antonio 1202; National dairy food show 343; 

 National officers, election of 368; National Bee- 

 keepers' Association 207; Nectar one bee 

 may carry 417; Nectar, extracting before ripen- 

 ing 1235; Neighbors and bees 1511; Neighbors, giv- 

 ing honey to 1014; Nights cool or hot for comb- 

 honey production 14; Non-swarming, Doolittle 1187; 

 North Carolina, bee-keeping in 828; Nuclei, forming 

 of 574; Nuclei, shade for 441; Nuclei, strong v. 

 weak 1251; Nuclei, questions concerning buying of 

 298; Nuclei, small, old 988; Nuclei, wintering of 

 518, 1227; Nucleus hive, the Root twin 69; Nu- 

 cleus, baby, Atwater on 946. 



Observatory hive with long passage for entrance 

 230; Observatory hive. Savage's 1358; Ohio foul- 

 brood bill 1071; Oil-stove in the cellar 79; Oil- 

 stove for heating honey 26; Ontario convention 

 1353, 1493; Orange-blossom honey 888; Outdoor 

 feeding, see teedmg outdoors; Outdoor wintering, 

 shed for 212; Out-apiary, last work at 1015; Out- 

 apiary, equipment needed 1014; Outdoor feeding, 

 Scholl on 494; Overstocking 67, 208; Overstocking, 

 Hatch on 21. 



Package small, for extracting honey 575; Packing 

 for double- walled hives 998; Paint for hives, to 

 mix 1428; Painting of hives 1072; Pants-guards to 

 protect the legs 343; Paper winter cases 1309; 

 Paper, winter cases 36; Paraffine-workers diseases 

 1415; Pariod for hive-covers 951; Pasturage, to 

 create, artificial 288; Pennsylvania, bee-keeping in 

 734; Pennsylvania, ants in 1056; Permanent rec- 

 ords, advantages of 206: Pettit leaves bees for 

 pulpit 1352; Ptienol for foul brood 808; Philadel- 

 phia convention 1306; Piping of queens 1287; Poem, 

 old, on bees 1299, 13o9; Poilen gathered in Jan- 

 uary 300; Pollen and honey, values of 792; Pollen 

 contains foul-brood germs 806; Pollen as a food 

 487, 1296; Pollen from basswood 927, 1355; Pollen 

 for winter 1297; Pollen from wild grape 1355; 

 Pollen, value of 716; Pollen, substitutes for 496; 

 Pollen, early sources of 496; Pollen, keeping 1355; 

 Pollen, substitute for 884; Pollen, Doolittle on 876; 

 i-'ollen, brick and orange 1415; Pollen, flour as a 

 substitute 368; Pollen, brick and red 1347; Pollen, 

 Latham on 867; Pollen, prevention of in shallow 

 hives 84; Porter bee-escape 817; Poultry statements 

 corrected 295; Poultry v. bees, both made to pay 

 215; Press, Root-German wax 810; Press, hot-water, 

 for rendering wax outdoors 363; Presses, steam 

 wax 878; Price of honey in England 1556; Price of 

 honey as affected by supply and demand 284; 

 Prices of honey depend on quality 493; Prices, to 

 get better on honey 1425; Priority rights 991, 1427; 

 Prohibition and liquor-selling 200; Propolis on Hoff- 

 man frames 200; Propolis to be left on comb honey 

 1511; Propolis in rabbets 867, 1108; Propolis re- 

 movea by lard or grease 368, 518, 87.3; Propolis on 

 metal spacers 68; Propolis, hybrid bees for 68; 

 Propolis, hybrids worse for 275; Propolif, solvent 

 for 34; Protection for comb-honey supers 215; Pro- 

 tection for hive or super 867; Protection in spring. 

 Alexander on 354; Protection for supers 997; Pro- 

 tection for supers 425; Psalm from farm life 



1587; Public Ledger of London 361; Punic bees 97; 

 Pure-food law, gist of 1415. 



Quahking of drones and not of virgins 1348; 

 Queen displaced by virgin 929; Queen rearing in 

 California, Heidorn on 949; Queen kills worker 86; 

 Queen smaller at swarming time 931; Queen mother 

 supplanted by virgin 1048; Queen more important 

 than hive 658; Queen, noises made by 813; Queen, 

 mating of, witnessed 1378; Queen, time taken to 

 mature 71G; Queen, old, displaced by virgin 988; 

 Queen, pure, to judge 1443; Queen, two in a hive, 

 Ferris on 586; Queens bred for honey-gathering 

 493; Queens piping 1287; Queens clipped differ- 

 ently to show age 343; Queens reared for early 

 increase, Alexander on 573; Queens, superseding of 

 573; Queens introduced by Simmins' plan 671; 

 Queens mated on an island 139; Queens mated 

 from upper stories 573; Queens stung by worker 

 86, 987, 1192, 1228; Queens imported for queen- 

 breeders 826; Queens delay in hatching 791; 

 Queens with clipped wings 828; Queens, clipping 

 wings of 520; Queens, do bees sting? 86, 987, 1192, 

 1228; Queens, clipping wings of 496, 830; Queens, 

 two in hive 593; Queens, two in hive, Ferris on 

 803; Queens, value of good ones 950; Queens, super- 

 seding in spring -i44; Queens, time taken to emerge 

 from cell 047; Queens, several fertilized from one 

 colony 573; Queens, several laying in a hive at a 

 time 574; Queens, cleansing flight of 830; Queens, 

 mating of in nucleus hives 879; Queens, two broods 

 from 888; Queens, caged, to prevent swarming 797; 

 Queens, poor 517; Queens, how long they can 

 fast 139; Queens, dual plan of introducing 1168; 

 Queens, direct method of introducing 86; Queens, 

 balled 811; Queens, early, Doolittle on 646; Queens, 

 early reared 744; Queens, early 411, 488; Queens, 

 to get 1421; Queens, new, for shaken swarms 1072; 

 Queens, to tell the age of 301; Queens, quality of 

 74; Queens, two in a hive 354; Queens, balling 

 1234; Queens, to find 726; Queens, caging of 812; 

 Queens, southern, for northern apiaries 828; Queen- 

 breeders not knowing stock 873; Queen-breeders 

 should know about stock 927; Queen-breeders' asso- 

 ciation 13; Queen-breeder's catalog 99; Queen- 

 breeder, young 29; Queen-cage candy 14; Queen- 

 cages, mailing and introducing 667; Queen-cell 

 carrier. Doolittle 891; Queen-cell detector 292; 

 Queen-cell detector, Holtermann's 504; Queen-cells, 

 large view of 1126; Queen-cell protector. West 891, 

 1056; Queen-excluder. Alexander on 88; Queen- 

 excluding honey-board 734; Queen-excluding zinc 

 spaced from top-bars 1012; Queen-fertilizing cage 

 1569, 1570; Queen-rearing bulletin 350, 493; Queen- 

 rearing in England 411; Quinby in demonstration 

 work 1190. 



Rabbet spacers. Miller on 1236; Rabbets filled 

 with propolis 867; Rabbets, to make 500; Rabbets, 

 wood, V. tin 1108; Rabbets cleats instead of 809; 

 Races, new, warning against 506; Railroad, moving 

 bees by 829; Railroads and sweet clover 1108; Rains 

 in California 232; Reason v. instinct 827; Recipes 

 for making honey candy 1130; Record-board, Doo- 

 little's 521; Record-Herald retraction 1415; Red 

 clover, honey from 993; Records, value of 949; 

 Red clover, bees working on 80; Red clover, Carnio- 

 lans work on 275; Red clover, short-tubed 230; Red- 

 clover bees 993. 1118; Relic, beeswax 516; Rent 

 of unused land 234; Repositories for wintering, see 

 cellars; Requeening 571, 743, 811, 891, 1113; Re- 

 tailing of extracted honey 575; Ripening of comb 

 honey 1000; Roaches, to kill 97, 139; Roaches harm- 

 less 232; Robber bees 1014; Robbers Italians 1348, 

 1416; Robbing confined to one colony 1348; Robbing 

 prevented bv glass screens 1188; Robbing, to pre- 

 vent 1191; Robbing, how it carries foul brood 808; 

 Root, A. I., viewed by outsiders 1352; Root, A. I., 

 and bees 1107; Root, H. H., at Townsend's 1241; 

 Root's smoker, latest 1168; Root on shipping honey 

 1246; Rose oi Sharon 1303. 



Sagging of fovindation on horizontal wires 412; 

 Sagging of foundation 808; Saloons v. law 276; 

 Savage's observatory hive 1358; Scent of bees 888; 

 Scent as a factor in calling bees 411; Scholl on 

 shaking bees 1293; Science, importance of noting 

 facts of 1490; Schoolteachers at Medina 1579; 

 Scraping sections 75; Screen over portico of hive 

 201; Season bad in Europe 1287; Season, condition 

 of 874; Secor's review of poem on bees 1299, 1359; 

 Section stamps or labels 951; Section comb-leveler. 



