American Hee Journal 



Queenlessness, signs of — 182. 



Queen, life of— 246. 



Queen losses — 14. 



Queen-mating boxes — 149. 



Queen-mating, control of — 123. 



Queen questions — 274, 306. 



Queen quit laying — 276. 



Queen*rearing and queens — 401. 



Queen-right vs. queenless colonies — 241. 



Queer action of bees — 307. 



Queer actions of a requeened colony — 373. 



Queer disease — 100. 



Queens, ages of — 6. 



Queens and swarming — 147. 



Queens, classification of — 56. 



Queens, early — 247, 417. 



Queens essential, good — 73. 



Queens fertilized in upper stories — 62. 



Queens per increase, buying — 246. 



Queens graded "breeders" — 308. 



Queens, grading and testing — 268. 



Queens in one hive, two — 214. 



Queens, introducing— 21, 56. 103. 128, 182, 



184, 203, 216, 235, 239, 243, 244, 266, 



279, 310. 

 Queens, old vs. young — 261. 

 Queens reared late — 374. 

 Queens, rearing— 20. 23. 67, 69, 146, 181, 1S2, 



iS3, 214, 274, 308, 342, 413. 

 Queen's sting not an ovipositor — 263. 

 Queen stings a drone — 393. 

 Queen taking her wedding flight from the cell 



—230. 

 Quotations, honey — 337. 

 Quoting the honey-market — 23. 



Races of bees, difference in — 50. 



Raining Flowers — 171. 



Raising the price of honey — 293. 



Rao at glucose, a — 141. 



Raspberry honey granulating — 88. 



Raspberry pollen, color of — 234. 



Rearing drones late — 19. 



Rearing queens— 20. 23. 67, 69. 146, 181, 182, 



183, 214. 274, 308, 342, 413. 

 Rearing young bees in winter — 73. 

 Red clover, alfalfa and— 101. 

 Reduction of tarii. on honey — 73. 

 Redwood as hive-lumber — 183. 

 Relationships of bees — 127. 

 Remains of a mammoth in California — 40. 

 Remarkable overflow — 66, 124. 

 Remedy for bee-stings — 246. 

 Reminiscences — 149. 



Removing crooked honey from hives — 307. 

 Removing supers in a slow flow — 306. 

 Rendering combs into beeswax — 141, 242, 343, 



401. 

 Rendering wax in an oven — 117. 

 Rendering wax without a press — 410. 

 Repairing old combs — 244. 

 ivcnort for season of 1908 — 53. 

 Report from Austria — 199. 

 Repressing swarming — 67. 

 Requeened colony, queer actions of a — 373. 

 Rcqueening— 67, 93, 276, 293. 307. 

 Requeening in the fall — 293. 

 Rcqueening, self — 247. 

 Returning swarms — 127. 

 Reversible bottom-boara — 18'3. 

 Rheumatism, bcc-stings for — 169, 236. 

 Ripening of honey — 142. 

 Robbcr-bccs. a "trick" on — 65. 

 Royal jelly for queen-cells — 101. 



Salt Lake prospects brightening — 149. 



Samples of bee-diseases wanted — 166, 326. 



Scarcity of pollen and condition of bees — 204. 



Scholl and divisible hives — 145. 



Scouts before a swarm^237. 



Scraping sections — 245. 



Sealed brood in February — 103. 



Sealed combs for winter and spring — 166. 



Sealed covers vs. absorbent covers — 38. 



Season's experiment with bees — 105. 



Season's experiences — 297, 



Season's good ending — 14. 



Sectional hives, management of — 176. 



Section comb foundation — 335. 



Sections, folding — 68. 



Selecting a good queen before testing — 305. 



Selecting quecn-cells — 104. 



Select tested nueens — 268. 



Select untested queens — 268. 



Sclf-requeening — 247. 



Selling bees — 21. 



Selling bottled honey — 69. 



Selling honey— 16, 24, 49, 69, 174, 241, 265, 



270, 376, 416. 

 Selling honey as a food — 49. 

 Selling honey at home — 24. 

 Selling honey direct to consumer — 242. 

 Selling honey, milk peddlers — 6. 

 Selling old comb honey — 265. 

 Separators — 341, 

 Severe stinging — 843. 

 Shaken swarms — 207. 



Shaking bees increase the crop, docs — 327. 

 Shaking bees moved small distances — 6. 



"Shaking" work into bees— 44, 90, 145. 



Shallow chamber below brood — 86. 



Shallow extracting-fraraes — 412. 



Shallow feeders— 132. 



She overheard it — 365. 



She was "stung" — 10. 



b-hipping bees by the car-load — 276. 



Shipping-case, Crane improved — 207. 



Shipping cases of corrugated paper — 197, 207. 



Shipping comb honey — 21. 



Should bee-keepers specialize — 52. 



Should bees be allowed to build comb? — 37. 



Signs of queenlessness — 182. 



Simmins* uncapper — 87. 



Single-tier cases, objections to — 62. 



Sister's good success — 123. 



Sister's interesting questions — 89. 



Sister's report and her stung dog — 364. 



Six colonies for one super — 373. 



Size of bees — 85. 



Size of hive — 243. 



Size of brood-chamber and swarming — 61. 



Skunks in the apiary — 99, 105. 



Skunks troubling the bees — 66. 



Slat honey-boards — 131. 



Slick shavers for uncapping — 272. 



Sloping cells— 127, 245. 



Slow cooling of beeswax — 165. 



Small apiarist, instruction for — 20. 



Smelting works, bees killed near — 357. 



Smoking bees — 215. 



Solar wax-extractor — 69. 



Some appreciated congratulations — 167. 



Some facts about foul brood not generally 



known — 51. 

 Some interesting experiences — 74. 

 "Something about alsike clover" — 167. 

 Sorting out brood-combs — 96. 

 Sorting out queens — 104. 

 Sour honey, feeding — 234. 

 Southern or Northern queens — 69. 

 Souvenir honey-recipe cards — 167. 

 Sowing buckwheat — 68. 



Space above brood-frames — 372. 



Space between end-bars and hive — 341. 



Spacing of frames— 262. 417. 



Spider-plant- 20, 233, 264. 



Splints for extracting combs — 411. 



Splints, foundation — 341. 358, 374. 



Spring and condition of bees — 201. 



Spring dwindling, similar to — 104. 



Spring feeding, combs of honey for — 340. 



Spring feeding of bees — 170. 



Spring loss of bees by outdoor feeding — 202. 



Spring management, essential principles in — 96. 



Spring work with bees — 98. 



Stachys Bullata— 126. 



Starters, putting bees on — 248. 



Starting bees in sections — 246, 294. 



Starting in the bee-business — 70. 274. 



Sticking labels on tin — 214. 



Stimulating working energy in bees by shaking 

 —53. 



Stimulation of bees, let alone — 410. 



Stimulative feeding not approved — 167. 



Stinging some people, bees — 214. 



Stopping leaks in hives — 6. 



Stopping storing, bees^ — 340. ( 



Stores, abundance of — 94. 



Stores for winter — 341. 



Stores for winter, amount of — 22. 



Stories about bees — 70. 



Storing comb honey in attic — 102. 



Straight combs, getting — 215. 



Strainer, gravity honey — 230. 



Strengthening a weak colony — 248. 



Strong and weak colonies — 367. 



Stung!— 265. 



Successful Iowa apiary — 54. 



Sucar-cane for honey — 21. 



Sugar for feeding bees — 374. 



Sugar for winter stores, feeding — 71. 373. 



Sugar-maples for bees, tapping — 101. 



Sugar syrup for winter stores, feeding — 368. 



Sugar svrup in spring, feeding — 102. 



Supcrs^72. 341. 



Supers and sudden honey-flow stop — 102. 



Superseding, giving queens vs. — 70. 



Superseding queens — 132, 180, 244, 246. 



Supers in winter — 341. 



Supers, putting on — 308, 342, 374. 



Supers, removing — 306. 



Super springs — 147, 



Supers, when to put on — 127. 



.supplies a beginner needs — 128. 



Surphis honey crop, getting ready for — 405. 



"Survival of the fittest" — among the bees — 

 134. 



Swamp milkweed — 342. 



Swarm control and preparing for the honey- 

 flow — 57. 

 Swarm deserting — 372. 

 Swarm manaecment — 315, 246. 260, 

 .^warming- 23. 67. 72. 89. 147. 174, 175, 182. 

 108. 206. 212. 215, 244, 245, 246, 274, 

 279, 308. 367. 

 Swarming experience — 276. 



Swarminc imoiilse and its control in the apiary 

 —174, 206. 



Swarming indications — 246. 

 Swarming prevented — a booklet — 361. 

 Swarming, prevention of— 5, 43, 174, 207, 244, 



263, 342, 413. 

 Swarming with virgin queen — 246. 

 Swarms on April 6 — 184. 

 Swarm troubles — 274. 

 Sweet clover as fertilizer — 358. 

 Sweet clover as a honey producer — 140, 331. 

 Sweet clover, bees working on — 264. 

 Sweet clover not white clover — 215. 

 Sweetly Reasoning Together — 172. 

 Syrup for feeding bees — 357. 



Taking bees out of cellar in winter — 22. 

 Taking brood and bees without finding the 



queen— 230. 

 "Taming" bees— 184, 214. 

 Tapping sugar-maples for bees — 101. 

 Tariff on honey— 73, 104, 144. 

 Tar-paper for wrapping hives — 19, 102, 372. 

 Tarred paper on bees, effect of — 70. 

 "Tested" and "untested" queens — 128. 

 Tested queens— 268, 372. 

 Testing queens, grading and — 268. 

 Texas apiculture, future of — 172. 

 Texas cyclone — 64. _ . 



Texas enterprise in fair exhibits — 357. 

 Texas foul brood bulletin — 203. 

 Thick extracting combs — 54. 

 Thickness of lumber for T-super— 102. 

 Thoughts on the Bees— 304. 

 Three-band Italians best — 12. 

 Tiering up colonies — 267. 

 Tiering up supers — 146, 148. 

 Tincture of myrrh for bee-stings — 42. 

 Tobacco-smoke and bees — 146. 

 Todd hive-stand— 416. 

 To keep ants out of hives — 88. 

 Too early brood-rearing not desirable — 93. 

 Too much honey in brood-chamber — 127. 

 Top-bars with groove and wedge — 131. 

 Top hive-protection for winter — 357. 

 Transferred colony — 274. 

 Transferring bees— 14, 20, 68, 69, 70. 71, 101, 



148, 274, 308. 

 Transferring bees from boxes — 68. 

 Transferring in winter — 274. 

 Travel-stain, preventing — 174. 

 Treatment for foul brood — 45, 93, 139. 

 "Trick" oh robber-bees — 65. 

 Triple crop for bees — 411. 

 Trips by the editor— 360, 395. 

 Trouble with a queen — 347. 

 T-supers— 19, 34, 42, 68, 103, 245. 341. 

 T-tins— 102. 

 T-tins, double — 275. 

 T-tins, how to clean — 123. 

 T-tins in supers — 69. 

 Two cans of honey— 369, 406. 

 Two colonies together — 103. 

 Two queens in one hive — 314, 340. 

 Two virgin queens introduced together — 416. 



Uncapper, Simmins' — 87. 



L/ncapping box, cheap — 168. 



Uncapping honey — 339. 



Uncapping machine, Ferguson — 199. 



Uncapping outfit — S3. 



Uncapping, slick shavers for — 272. 



Uncapping vat — 23. 



Uncle Sam's sweet tooth — 37. 



Understocking a locality with bees — 144. 



Uneasy sister— husband Taftlike in appearance 



—43. 

 Unfavorable season — 14. 

 Unfinished sections- 71, 147. 

 Uniting colonies of bees — 6, 19, 22, 62, 97, 



101, 132, 374 417. 

 Uniting colonies to keep them at same number 



of hives — 74. 

 Uniting purchased bees with nuclei — 19. 

 Uniting weak colonies in spring — 69, 180. 

 Unripe honey — 372. 

 Untested queens — 268. 

 Up-to-date bee-keeping — 93. 

 Use of young brood — 293. 

 Uses of honey — 40, 363. 

 Using combs that bees died on — 181. 

 Using last season's empty comb — 234. 

 Using the uncapping knife — 145. 



\' aluable honey from a noxious source — 299. 

 . alue of bees to fruit — 411. 

 Value of prime swarms — 247, 

 Value of sweet clover — 231, 

 Varieties of bees, some — 61. 

 Vegetable cellar for wintering bees — 373. 

 Ventilation, abundant — 197. 

 Ventilation, cellar hive — 417. 

 Ventilation, entrance — 182. 

 Ventilation, winter hive — 307. 

 Vermont sister's experience — 234. 

 Vicious goldens — 145. 

 Views of an Indiana apiary— 134. 

 Views of the J. M. Cutts' apiary— 233. 

 Virgin queen, introducing — 68. 

 Virgin queens — 268. 

 Virgin wax, color of — 394. 



