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December, 1909. 



American Hee Journal 



Honey types — 144. 



Honey, uses of — iO. 



Honey vinegar as food vs. the other kind — 59. 



Honey vs. cane-sugar — 339. 



Honey vs. cane-sugar — 339. 



Honor among bee-keepers — 62. 



Honor to an apicultural leader — 88. 



Hoodoo ribbons in Australia — 8. 



Hornets, plague of — 371. 



Horsemint and mesquite in Texas — 24. 



Hot bee-prank in New York State — 63. 



How far do bees travel for water or nectar — 



101, 124, 209, 236, 23S. 

 How many colonies for a certain field? — 67. 

 How many colonies in an apiary — 20. 

 How to clean honev-boards — 131. 

 How to clean T-tins— 123. 

 How to know an old queen — 62. 

 Humming Business, A — 297. 

 Hunting bee-trees — 25, 66, 149, 343. 

 Hybrids vs. Italians— 247. 



Ideal location for an apiary — 145. 



Illinois foul brood law — 229. 



Illinois State fair awards — 360. 



Important factors in bee-keeping — 391. 



Improving in bees — 263. 



Improving native black bees — 102. 



In-breeding — 127. 



Increase — 21, 22, 67, 69, 73, 97, 101, 128, 239, 



277, 418. 

 Increase at extracting-time — 393. 

 Increase by dividing colonies — 97, 

 Increase, feeding bees to hasten — 21. 

 Increase not wanted — 183. 

 Increase, nucleus method of — 101. 

 Increasing number of colonies — 147. 

 Increasing the brood areas — 95. 

 Indiana bee-disease law — 122. 

 Indiana fair apiarian exhibit — 328. 

 In old Monterey with the bee-men — 46. 

 Institutes, bee — 398. 

 Instruction lor small apiarist — 20. 

 Intelligence of bees — 88. 

 Introducing a virgin queen — 68. 

 Introducing queens — 21, 56, 72, 73, 103, 128, 



182, 184, 203, 216, 235, 239. 243, 244, 26G, 



279, 310, 410. 

 Iowa apiary, successful — 54. 

 Iowa foul brood law — 73, 169, 198. 

 Iowa State fair list — 232. 

 Isle of Wight bee-disease — 233, S94. 

 Italian bees — 307. 



Italian earthquake, bee-keeping and — 198. 

 Italianizing— 67, 128, 148, 181, 183, 308, 341, 



375. 

 Italianizing natural swarm — 183. 

 Italian queen-breeder in earthquake — 121. 

 Italians, hybrids vs. — 247. 



"y. G. D." hive— So. 

 "John" helps — in the house — 304. 

 Joining the National — 417. 



Judging from appearance when bees arc work- 

 ing— 127. 



-247 



-417. 



Keeping empt-^ combs- 

 Keeping honey — 70. 

 Keeping honey in an icebox- 

 Keeping queens — 308. 

 Keeping queens till sold or used — 248. 

 Kerosine oil for robber-bees — 73. 

 Killing bees in manipulating — 215. 

 Kind of brood-foundation — 102. 



L'abeille et la ruche — 5. 



Langdon non-swarming device — 128. 



Langstroth vs. Dadant hive, 8-frame — 240. 



Large average from few colonies — 165. 



Large hives — 131. 



Large hives by double storying — 51. 



Larger cells and larger bees — 392. 



Larval bees, food for — 177. 



Late drone-rearing — 19. 



Late extracting of honey — 141, 



Late feeding for winter — 340. 



Late mating of queen — 71. 



Late reared queens — 374. 



Late swarms — 274. 



Late swarms, managing — 22. 



Laying worker colonies — 197. 



Laying workers — 132, 197, 274, 



Leaks in hives, stopping — 6, 



Leaky hive-covers — 18. 



Leaning boards against hives — 102. 



Left with farm and bees — 202. 



Legislating for bee-keepers — 45, 91, 239. 



Length of queen-cells — 13. 



Length of T-super — 19. 



Lessons from the bees — 173. 



Let-alone stimulation of bees — 410. 



Letter from Austria — 87. 



Lewis factory burned — 231. 



License to keep bees — 45. 



Life of queen — 246. 



Likely laj^ng workers — 68, 



Liquefying honey — 144. 



Living over cellared bees — 102. 



Lizard in hive, mummified — 86. 



Location of hive — 307, 308. 



273. 



374. 



Locations in the West, new bee — 327. 



Locusts, choice of — 68. 



Long cellar wintering — 202. 



Long-lived bees — 146. 



Long sting — 88. 



Long-tongue bees — 247, 417. 



Long-tongue Italians — 128. 



Long-tongue, red clover fad — 332. 



Loose vs. nailed bottoms — 181. 



Losses of queens — 14, 307. 



Loss of bees by outdoor feeding, spring — 202. 



Loss of bees in winter^lS2. 



Loss of honey from smoke — 361. 



Louisiana for bee-keeping — 172. 



Making a living with bees— 148. 



Making increase — 73. 



Management of sectional hives — 176. 



Management, swarm — 215, 246, 269. 



-\ianaging late swarm — 22. 



Many drones — 247. 



Marketing honey — 16, 24, 49, 69, 174, 241, 



265, 270, 376, 416. 

 Massachusetts bee-keepers' field-day — 295. 

 Massachusetts foul brood law — 73. 

 Mating of queens, drones and — 246. 

 Mating of queens from different localities — 



128. 

 McEvoy, honored Wm.^ — 402. 

 Melting up old combs — 7. 

 Mendleson's big honey crop — 272. 

 Methods of introducing queens — 239. 

 Milk and honey — 216, 326. 

 MilK peddlers selling honey — 6. 

 Milkweed— 307. 



Miller and his apiary, Dr. — 16G. 

 Miller and his "Forty Years," Dr. — 44. 

 Miller , appreciation of Dr. — 40. 

 Miller automatic decapper — 177. 

 Miller tent-escape and voung bees — 23. 

 Miller T-super— 42. 



Miller T-super — directions for making — 19. 

 Missouri for bees — 101. 

 Money in your pocket — 306. 

 Monterey County bee-keeping — 213. 

 Most important thing for beginners — 85. 

 Moths— 127, 147, 182, 372. 

 Mountain apiary of Ludwig Brendle — 231. 

 Mountain mint — 343. 

 Mount Nebo apiary — 329. 

 Moving apiaries in the Alps — 263. 

 Moving bees— 21, 66, 184, 200, 277, 307. 

 Moving bees and marking location — 20. 

 Mud for removing propolis from fingers — 123. 

 Mulberry shade for bees — 124. 237. 

 Multiplication of foul brood bacilli — 293. 

 Mummified lizard in hive — 86. 

 Musty combs — 101. 

 "My John" and the bees — 43. 

 Myrrh for bee-stings, tincture of — 42. 



Nailing honey-packages — 326. 



National election of officers — 360, 392. 



National membership over 3000 — 167. 



Native black bees, improving — 102. 



Natural swarming — 175. 



Nebraska fair apiarian list — 232. 



Nectar, condensation of — 411. 



Nectar secretion, wind and^ — 68. 



New York bee-keeper slugged — 415. 



New Year's Wish, A — 391. 



Noises over a bee-cellar — 68. 



Nomenclature, plea for revised — 45. 



Non-swarming bees — 205. 



Non-swarming device, Langdon — 128. 



Non-swarming in Scotland — 362. 



Non-swarming process. .280. 



Nosema apis, a new bee-foe — 358. 



Not supersedure — 246. 



"Not worth patenting" — 327. 



Nougat Letitia — 265. 



Nuclei, dividing by — 206, 



Nuclei, fall— 374. 



Nuclei, wintering — 373. 



Nucleus method of increase — 10], 12S. 



Nucleus of bees, forming — 393. 



Nucleus plan of introducing — 72. 



Number of bees afield at one time — 145, 



Number of colonies to clear $600 — 101. 



Nurse-bees affect queen, do — 71. 



Nut honey cake — 305, 



Objections to single-tier cases — 62. 



Objects to sweet clover — 126. 



Octette of questions — 183. 



"Old Boy" bee-keeper — 21. 



Old or young bees swarming? — 247. 



Old queens dull looking — 144. 



Old vs. young queens — 261. 



Ontario bee-keeping making progress — 202. 



Ontario inspector of apiaries — 170. 



Ontario's clover honey crop — 266. 



Ontario's new apicultural station — 125, 297, 



401. 

 Ontario wants the National — 402. 

 Open-top bee-tent — 148. 

 Opposed to early spring feeding in cold climate 



—202. 

 Origin and treatment of foul brood — 308. 



Outdoor wintering — 103, 414. 

 Overhauling, early spring — 95. 

 Overheated brood, preventing — 343. 

 Overstocking a locality with bees — 405. 

 Ovipositor, queen's sting not an — 262. 

 Ozokerite — looks like beeswax — 359. 



Packing bees for winter — 374. 



Packing of extracted honey — 143. 



Packing, winter — 101. 



Painting bottom-boards inside — 340. 



Painting hives — 101. 



Paralysis— 147, 341. 



Partial clipping of queens — 104, 



Paste, recipe for — 200. 



Pasturage, helping — 358. 



Pays to read a bee-paper — 42. 



Peculiar winter for bees — 170. 



Pennsylvania report, good — 64. 



People living over cellared bees — 102, 



Peppermint as a honey plant — 247. 



Pepper-tree, California — 337. 



Perhaps bee-paralysis — 147. 



Pettit, Morley — Ontario provincial apiarist — 



170. 

 Pictures of apiarists and apiaries — 359. 

 Piping and quahking of queens — 392. 

 Place for additional supers — 8. 

 Plague of bee-moths — 18. 

 Plan for control of swarming — 72. 

 Planting honey-trees, cities — 229. 

 Plea for revised nomenclature — 45. 

 Pointer to those buying queens — 85. 

 Pollen— 94, 165, 179, 29S, 364. 

 Pollen and honey in January — 66. 

 Pollen, bees deserting hive for lack of — 275. 

 Pollen-filled combs — 371. 

 Pollen for brood-rearing — 165. 

 Pollen from basswood — 298. 

 Pollen in super — 247. 

 Pollen, scarcity of — 204. 

 Pollen starvation cause of foul brood — 56. 

 Pollinators, bees as — 204. 



Poor honey season, but sister thankful — 415. 

 Poppleton visits the North, O. O. — 328. 

 Porter bee-escapes — 215. 



Position of pictures in "Forty Years" — 147. 

 Poultice for swelling, honey — 234. 

 Preacher's bee-keeping and apiary— 329. 

 Preacher's mellifluous words, a— 123. 

 Preparing bees for winter — 277, 366, 415. 

 "Pretty Hummer, The" — 25. 

 Prevent absconding swarms, sure way to — 171. 

 Preventing "drifting" of bees — 276. 

 Preventing foul brood — 103. 

 Preventing honey running over — 412. 

 Preventing travel-stain — 174. 

 Prevention of increase — 134, 148. 

 Prevention of swarming — 5, 43, 174, 207, 244, 



263. 342, 413. 

 Price of bee-papers — 62. 

 Price of bees in box-hives — 274. 

 Prices for honey — 141, 393. 357. 

 Prices of honey, next year's — 8. 

 Prime swarms, value of — 247. 

 Priority rights and bee-keepers — 150. 

 Priority rights in Imperial Valley — 38. 

 Practical Bee-Culture, Alexander's — 200. 

 Probably mostly Italian- — 70. 

 Producing extracted honev — 129. 

 Producing honey— 326, 418. 

 Production of "candied" honey — 144. 

 Production of chunk honev — 330, 364, 403, 

 Production of comb honey — 150, 274, 343. 

 Profit on bees and chickens — 182. 

 Propolis— 179, 326. 

 Propolis from wax — 5. 

 Propolis in supers — 326. 

 Proportion of bees and brood — 358. 

 Proposed Calif ornian apiarian legislation — 137. 

 Prospects discouraging, honey — 234. 

 Punching end-bars and wiring frames — 49. 

 Pure food law in Arizona — 101. 

 Putting bees on starters — ^248. 

 Putting hives together almost putting married 



folks apart — 42. 

 Puzzles, some new bee — 277. 



Quantity not quality of food decides royalty — 



129. 

 Queen and drone excluding bottom-slats — 183. 

 Oueen a queen, is the — 262. 

 Queen-bee snag — 100. 

 Queen-cell cups and swarming — 215. 

 Queen-cells and swarming, destroying — 198, 



247. 

 Queen-cells, getting good — 118. 

 Queen-cells, getting many — 198. 

 Queen-cells, good or poor — 367. 

 Queen-cells, length of — 13. 

 Queen-cells not hatching — 244. 

 Quetn-cells, selecting — 103. 

 Queen, escaped — 274. 



Oueen-excluder, comb honey super as — 21. 

 Oueen-excluders — 22. 

 Queen experience — 306, 309. 

 (>ueen flying in December — 102. 

 Queen killed — 374. 

 Queenless bees — 308. 



