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December, 1909. 



Index to Vol. XLIX 



SUBJECTS 



Abbott plan of introducing queens — 244. 



Absconding swarms, sure way to prevent — 171. 



Absorbent cushions, sealed covers vs. — 3S. 



Abundance of stores — 94. 



Additional supers, place for — 8. 



Advantage of 9-frame hive — 149. 



Afterswarms— 43, 229, 277, 27S. 



Age at which queen mates — 268. 



Age deteriorate honey, does — 37. 



Ages of --ueens — 6, 366, 



Air-ship built on bee-model — 63. 



Albino bees — 247. 



Alcohol, bees and — 362. 



Alfalfa— 399. 



Alfalfa and red clover — 101. 



Alsike clover — 147. 



Alsike clover honey, color of — 293. 



Alternating hives — 67. 



Altitude for alfalfa — 178. 



Antiquity of bee-keeping — 8. 



Ants and bees — 146. 



Ants, getting ri«.. of — 339. 



Ants out of hives, to keep — 88. 



Ants, warning against — 373. 



Apiarian awards at Texas fairs — 402. 



Apiarian exhibit at Texas State fair — 306. 



Apiary, beautiful — 47. 



Apiary of — 



Anderson, Grant — 90. 

 Baker, J. H.— 296. 

 Barbish, G. A.— 39. 

 Belmont, Geo. — 361. 

 Berry, Geo. O.— 265. 

 Boomhower, L- — 261. 

 Brendle, Ludwig — 231. 

 Chapel, W. S.— 400. 

 Diemer & Son, J. F.— 39. 

 Dean, Chas. — 399. 

 Eccleston, C. E.— 399. 

 Frye, Mr.— 398. 

 Howe, Mr. and Mrs. — 121, 

 Joplin, Andrew, 361. 

 Kendall, Jay S.— 400. 

 Kennedy, T. B.— 295. 

 Koch, E. F.— 39. 

 Lampher, Mr. — 329. 

 Lloyd, Leroy— 399. 

 Look, F. D.— 400. 

 Lutts, J. E— 399. 

 Mathews, Mr.— 329. 

 McMannan, G. N.— 88. 

 McNeal, W. W.— 7. 

 Miller, B. F.— 7. 

 Peck, S. A.— 399. 

 Rice, O. K.— 329. 

 Seidelman, John— 329. 

 Swearingen, W. A. — 232. 

 Thorstad, J. E.— 87. 

 Tyler, Mr.— 329. 

 Voigt. C. H.— 163. 

 Weldy, G. W.— 231. 



Apicultural experiment station — 44. 



apiculture and apiarian pathology — 335. 



Apiculture in Spain — 62. 



Apiculture in the United States — 86. 



Apogem — a fertility producer — 413. 



Appreciates his wife — 123. 



Appreciation of Dr. Miller — 40. 



Artificial increase — 101. 



Attic bee-keeping — 265. 



Augmenting strength of new colony — 175. 



Australian honey — 199. 



Austria, a letter from — 87. 



Automatic honey-extractor — 96. 



Average per colony — 104. 



Baby queen-mating boxes — 149. 



Bachmann's super — 40, 167. 



Back-yard apiary — 296. 



Bad winter stores, bees affected by — 143. 



Bait sections— 72, 211, 294, 307, 326, 367. 377. 



Bailed queen— 373. 



Banat bees— 276, 307, 374. 



Banats or Cariolans? — 182. 



Basswood as a honey-yielder — 267. 



Basswood, European and American — 412. 



Basswood, pollen from — 293. 



Bee a winner in France — 40. 



Bee-book, best— 215. 



Bee-books— 307. 



Bee-cellar and honey-house — 146, 



Bee-eater — 373. 



Bee-escapes — 267, 



Bee-escapes, Porter — 215. 



Bee gloves, wearing — 123. 



Bee in France and America — 147. 



Bee-keeping and Italian earthquake — 198. 



Bee-keeping in Alabama — 149. 



American Hee Journal 



Bee-keeping in Colorado— 17, 51, 130, ISO, 210, 



240, 270, 302, 336. 

 Bee-keeping in Georgia^277. 

 Bee-keeping in Hawaii — 10, 87. 

 "Bee-keeping in Massachusetts" — -'263. 

 Bee-keeping in New Mexico — 138. 

 lice-keeping in old Mexico — 404. 

 Bee-keeping, the government and — 5, 93. 

 Bee-locations in the West, new — 327. 

 Bee-moths — 18, 147. 

 Bee-paralysis — 147, 341. 

 Bee-postal cards help sell honey — 123. 

 Bee-ranges spoiled — 418. 

 Beer-keg colony — 372. 

 Bees act queerly — 307. 

 Bees allowed to build comb — 91. 

 Bees and alcohol — 362. 

 Bees and brood, proportion of- — 358. 

 Bees and cactus — 280. 

 Bees and cucumber growers — 279. 

 Bees and fruit — 411. 

 Bees and honey in Mindanao — 411. 

 Bees and pollen — 364. 

 Bees and the -^ure food law — 64. 

 Bees as Nature study in public schools — 414. 

 Bees as pollinators — 204. 

 Bees attack a bee-hive hat — 204. 

 Bees bothered by ants and cockroaches — 246. 

 Bees deserting their own hives — 182. 

 Bees dying off — 147. 

 Bees dying on frames of honey — 246. 

 Bees fighting and killing each other — 101. 

 Bee-shed in Texas — 305. 

 ijees help the vineyard — 412. 

 Bees in a church — 106. 

 Bees in best condition — 66. 

 Bees in Germany — 295. 

 Bees in Louisiana — 128, 172. 

 Bees in Uganda and Chile — 412. 

 Bees in winter — 174. 

 Bees leaving hives in cellar — 19. 

 Bees might have saved Father Adam — 48. 

 Bees not in it — 370. 

 Bees on Texas plains — 372. 

 Bee-space above or below frames — 166. 

 Bee-spaces in hives — 66. 

 Bee-sting and formic acid — 178. 

 Bees stinging some people — 214. 

 Bee-sting remedy — 246. 

 Bee-strings and rheumatism— 169, 236, 300, 



334, 365, 418, 419. 

 Bee-story, a — 74. 

 Bee-supply trouble — 272. 

 Beeswax to the bees, cost of — 135. 

 Bees wintered out-doors — 125. 

 Bee-tight honey-house — 332, 

 Bee-tree — 14, 25. 

 Beet-sugar for bees — 9, 40. 

 Bee-woman's dress — 304. 

 Beginner's questions — 68, 72, 275, 277, 341, 



342, 373. 374. 

 Beginning with bees — 64, 279. 

 Benton's bee-bill beaten — 213. 

 Berkeley University, doing things at — 100. 

 Best bees for comb honey — 72, 102. 

 Best hives — 101. 

 Best hives for extracted — 71. 

 Best hive to begin with, etc. — 19. 

 Best race of bees — 247. 

 Best section for T super — 103. 

 Best size of .hives — 146. 

 Big hives are best — 337. 

 Big hives, something about — 13. 

 Big honey yield from one colony and its in- 

 crease — 150. 

 Big Southern bee-keepers — 12. 

 Biography of — 



Holbrook, R. B.— 42. 



Josephson, August — 41. 



McLeod, Duncan Cameron — 42. 



Miller, C. C— 8. 



Stolley, Richard — 41. 



Weber, C. H. W.— 41. 



Wright, Mrs. Wheeler D.— 41. 



Black bees disappearing, pure — 124. 

 Black brood, golden Italians and — 297. 

 Black brood in Eastern Ontario — 298. 

 Black brood, no Use doctoring for — 394. 

 Blind bees best (?)— 8. 

 Bloated bees— 46, 106. 

 Blooming bee-hive, not a — 411. 

 Book about honey — 120. 

 Bot-flies and horses — 105. 

 Bottled honey, selling — 69. 

 Bottling extracted honey — 43. 

 Bottom boards in winter — 247. 

 Brood-nest, winter — 391. 

 Brood-rearing, winter — 14. 

 Brother's mother gone — 305. 

 Buckeye as a nectar-yielder — 333. 

 Buckwheat— 146, 297, 411. 

 Buckwheat honey in Ontario — 266. 

 Buckwheat, sowing — 68. 

 Buckwheat swarm, good — 332. 

 Building bees up for harvest — 94. 

 Building comb between top-bars — 373. 

 Bumble-bees, something about — 58, 150. 



"Bunching" bees for winter — 145. 

 Bunch of interesting questions — 72. 

 Buying queens for increase — 246. 

 Buying queens, pointer for — 86, 

 Buzzings from the clover-field— 138. 



Cactus, bees and — 2S0. 



Cactus blooms and bees — 203. 



California bee-keepers' Mecca — 370. 



California bee-keepers, some — 46. 



California holly or Christmas berry — 414. 



Canadian honey crop crisis — 297. 



Canadian honey standard — 8. 



Cancer, honey for — 234. 



Candied honey for winter stores — 246. 



Can for holding honey-cappings — 130. 



Canning fruit, honey for — 9. 



Can working energy be stimulated in bees by 

 shaking? — 53. 



Capping-melter — 63, 267. 



Carniolan bees — 307. 



Care of extracted honey — 142. 



Catalpa for honey — 234. 



Catching stray swarms in decoy hives — 127. 



Caucasian bees— 20, 22, 67, 214, 216, 307. 



Caution as to liquefying honey — 144. 



Cellar-wintered bees, condition of — 125. 



Cellar-wintering of bees — 44, 91, 202, 235. 



Chaff packing for wintering bees — 403. 



Changing bees on home-made frames to Hoff- 

 man — 70. 



Changing queens — 101. 



Characteristics of the season — 330. 



Charge for pasturing bees — 128. 



Cheap bee-feeder — 106. 



Cheap uncapping box or can — 168, 204. 



Chunk honey— 133, 278, 326, 330, 364, 372, 

 402, 418. 



Chunk honey for small bee-keepers — 133. 



Cities planting honey-trees — 229. 



City back-lot apiary — 232. 



Classification of queens — 56. 



Clay to stop cracks — 411. 



Cleaning and casing honey — 59. 



Cleaning out sections and combs — 293. 



Cleaning T-tins — 104. 



Clipped queen and swarming — 244, 267, 



Clipped queen, hiving with a — 175. 



Clipping the queen— 20, 69, 103, 127, 166. 



Coal-oil for bee-stings — 413. 



Colonies, strong and weak — 367. 



Colony-diagnosis in spring — 173. 



Colony from a tree — 373. 



Colony from a tree in winter — 102. 



Colony stopped storing — 308. 



Colony stored no honey — 72. 



Color in bees — 264. 



Color of alsike clover honey — 298. 



Color of Italian queens — 66. 



Color of raspberry pollen — 334. 



Color of virgin wax — 394. 



Comb between top-bars — 373. 



Comb foundation, section — 335, 366. 



Comb honey and digestion — 138. 



Comb honey, extracted vs.— 70, 104, 241, 368. 



Comb honey grading rules of the Colorado As- 

 sociation— 59, 303. 



Comb honey, hives for^ — 16. 



Comb honey management — 146. 



Comb honey production — 150, 274, 343. 



Comb honey super as a queen-excluder — 21. 



Comb honey twelve years old — 6. 



Comb honey without separators — 68, 361. 



Comb leveler — 147. 



Comments on several topics — 141. 



Compression for T-super — 181. 



Concrete hive-bottoms — 246. 



Condensation of nectar — 411. 



Connecticut bee-law — 294. 



Controlling swarming — 1S2. 247. 



Control of queen-mating — 128. 



Control of swarming impulse in the apiary — ■ 

 174, 206. 



Conventions and sisters, bee — 414. 



Convention Reports — 



Chicago-Northwestern — 395. 



Connecticut — 173. 



Hawaiian bee-kepers' association — 10. 



Illinois State— 399. 



Massachusetts — 149, 166. 



New Jersey — 93. 



Northeast Wisconsin — 94. 



North Texas— 172. 



Ontario — 401. 



Pennsylvania — 333. 



Texas— 331. 



Western honey-producers — 48. 



Co-operation in Michigan — 85. 



Corrugated paper shipping-cases — 197, 207. 



Cost of beeswax to the bees — 135. 



Covers for the brood-chamber — 126. 



Covers, hive — 71, 341. 



Crane improved shipping-case — 197, 207. 



Crane on several topics, J. E. — 173. 



Crimson clover honey — 38. 



Critic criticized, a — 326. 



