THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



827 



L,ate breeding 516, 82fr 



Late in occupying the sections... 372 



liate swarms 7:il 



Lai'Ke lioney-yielde 293 



Laiichiible item 597 



JjawBuits aj;ai;ist bee-keeping.... 



3:W. :^.ir,, 4I0, 4M. 4«3,491 499 



Ijaying-nMnn fdr tlie queen fiyil 



liayiny wuiiters 36.lnfi,452 



Le^islatinn for bee-keepers. 4r»(5, 



74J, 775. 77G. 794,8n7.8U) 823 



Lengtliening the swarming-ira- 



pulse 80.166 



Length of a queen's fertility 198 



Len^'tii <:if ilrnnea' wings 363 



Lexington fiiir 603 



JLikes and dislikes of bees 228 



Lime in tlie cellar 6.il 



Ijocation I's. cost of production. . 25 



Lower freight rates 811 



Lubricating foundation dies 340 



Mailing queen-bees. 403, 405, 419, 



451 459 



Making bee-hives 357 



Making bee-keeping profitable . . . 438 



Making history 102 



Makiim ri'i»"rts 421 



Mahiriu tniin bee-cellars 234 



MaiiagiMiicnt for the most honey. 



244, 2i;:J 342 



Management for the most in- 

 crease 244. 420 



Managing bees 8. 52, 197 



Managing the sale of honey. 747. 



762 810 



Manilla paper for hives 618 



Manufacture of eggs and combs. 72 

 Marketing honey.... 137.153,186. 



328. 41 1, 52.3, 565, 566. 587, 646, 



743.755, 771,777 80R 



Mating nf(]ueens 308,256,452 



Medicinal properties of honey ... 261 



Michigun state fair 617 



Misrepresentation about hotiey. . 



19,57.67,99, 108, 131,443 467 



Moisture in hives 810 



Mother 643 



Moving bees 22,613 



Musing of a N. Y. bee-keeper — 358 



National bee-keepers' union 199, 

 357. 374. 389. 424. 426, 474, 499, 



682.709.755,761, 762 803 



Natural swarms or nuclei— which? 485 



New bee-disease 28 



New races of bees 807 



New uncapping-knife 179 



Non-swarming bees and system . . 



488, 570,727. 776 810 



Notes of the season 649 



Number of colonies in one place, loi 

 Number of frames in a hive and 



for winter 426, 548 



Observations in bee-cuUure . 231, 



457 693 



October theory 282 



Old bee-gura 435 



Old drones , 234 



Oldest apicultural publisher 435 



Oppositii in to bee-keeping 262 



Organization for protection 42 



Original invention 123 



Origin of honey 68. 1 17, 691 



Overstocking a locality 548 



Packing hives 4, 260 



Painted hives 726 



Paper comb 363. 522 



Paper fu'd for smokers 707 



Paralyzed bees 436,467,505 



Paste for honey labels, etc 675 



Past, present and future of the 

 N. A. B. K. society 677 



PASTtJKAQE FOR BEES 



Acorns 



AKsike clover 44)9.586,612, 61,5, 



A sters 



Boneset 



Buckwheat 516, .555, 



Chapman honey-plant 43,487, 



507,518,571 



Golilenrod 



Holly 



Honey locust 202, 



Motherwfirt 



132, 579. 599, 



Partridge pea 522, 



Pleurisy-root 552, 



Sow-thistle 



Spanish-needle 



Sweet clover .. 



Sweet melissa. 



Teasel 458, 506, 517. 



Viper's bugloss 



■Wild phiin 



Patents nil 1 ice-appliances 



Pernliiir iicticnsof bees. 372,692, 731 



Peculiiir queen 571 



Perforated zinc 548 



Perspicuity in writing 203 



Petrified honey comb 51 



Phenol and foul brood... 523.-534,537 

 Plain sheets of wax 468,536,583, 



fMS. 630 648 



Poetry of bee-keeping 615, 728 



Pollen alone for bees 708 



Poileu carried from flower to 



tlower 6, 57 



Pollen for bees in winter 616 



Pollen in sections, 341,532,571 



Pollen theory 25, 183.583 



Postal regulations 531 



Preparing bees for winter .... 12, 



20], 488,692 778 



Preparing for the honey-flow — 294 



preserving bee-papers 6^* 



Preventing annoyance by bees , 410 

 Prevention of abscondingswarms 580 



Prevention of after-swarms iwi 



Prevention of bee-diarrhea 473 



Prevention of swarming 201, "228, 



328.331.347,522, 538,564 708 



Prime swarms 156 



Prinritv of location 516,709 



Pri/es fur honev and bees affairs 42 

 Production of Iioney... 4, 39, 378, 773 



Production of wax.. 296 



Prolific queens 363, 443 



Provincial exposition 645 



Pumpkin honey 55 1 



Pure queens 356 



Purifying beeswax . 356, 388, 468, 763 

 Putting bees into cellars 169,724,7.57 



Putting on a postage stamp 596 



Putting on sections 323 



Queen decides 51 



Queen-excluders 244 



Queen-excluding honey-boards... 171 



Oueen-excluding top-bar' 8(.t6 



Queen laying many eggs in a cell. 420 



Queen colonies 363 



Queen-nurseries 36, 183 



Queen-rearing 136, 232 



Queen restrictors 393 



Queens 408 



Queen-traps to preventswarming 788 



Questions 379, 442 



Quietude, semi-hibernation, etc.,. 313 



Quiescence of bees in winter 215 



Quinby standing frames 71 



Kearing drones 164 



Rearing queens 248,564, 644 



Rearing worker bees 5(i4 



Recipes for honey cakes 108 



Red-clover honey 611, 644 



Red-clover Italian bees 



60, 180,731, 795 



Removing surplus 260, 550 



Rendering combs into wax.. 676, 



744... Vfi3 



Replies to various criticisms. 213, 278 

 Report of Indianapolis conven- 

 tion 758 



Restoring flavor of extracted 



h(Miey 789 



Returning swarms 362,411,500 



Reversed queens 521 553 



Reversible frames:.... 28.56.116, 

 122. 155, 171, 220, 308, 314, 359, 



376. 697 74 



Reversible hives.. 43,74.118, 152, 

 154, 167, 231, 251. 262, 376, 474. 



697 '. 744 



Reversing brood-combs. 228, 359. 522 



Reversing sections 779 



Revolution in bee-culture 35, 135 



Ke-waxing honey-barrels. 4'.'0 



Ripening honey 409,789 



Uoarhes 314 



Robber bees 299. 341. 419.467, 747, 778 



Room f<tr surplus honey 308 



Round perforations in zinc 82o 



Rye meal for pollen 138 



Seasonable suggestions 409 



Season of I886 119, 188.307, 315 



Second swarms. 148, 580 



Sectional brood-chamber hives.. 

 153. 170. 184, 201, 203, 217, 219, 



252 259 



Section-cases 28, 105, 199 



Sections 277 



Sections without separators 22 



Sections with side-openings . 196, 613 



Self-uniting colonies 6'^4 



Selling honey on commission 755 



Sensible words 291 



Separating swarms ... 436 



Separators 554, 569, 676 



Shading hives 356, 387, 452 



8hipi>ing bees 187, 506 



Shipping bees by the pound.,.. 7, 325 



Shooting into a swarm 344 



Skunks in the apiary 56 



Small hives vs. large hives 37, 56, 



75, 89. 132 137 



Solar wax-extractor 501, 552, 581 



Solution of bee-keeping 649 



Something fraud can't counter-. . 



feit 488 



Sour honey 379 



Space between brood combs. 107, 



468 502 



Spiders and empty combs 407 



Spring management of bees. .197, 585 

 Standard of excellence for honey, 23 



Starch sugar in honey 379 



Stimulative feeding 4, 184, 276 



Stingless bees 227 



Sting structure of the bee 544 



St. Joseph bee and honey show... 696 



St. Louis fair exhibit 714 



Stoiing honey 292, 424, 745 



Straight combs '. 235 



Strengthening weak colonies 



loi, 123 183 



Strong colonies for the honey 



harvest 58 



Subsoil vs. Jones 646 



Success in bee-culture 666 



Sugar syrup for winter stores 44, 



86. 107, 152, 155, 231. 248,262, 



281. 567, 599 633 



Summer management of bees — .598 



Superseding queens, 309, 340 



Surface measure of foundation.. 219 



Surplus arrangements 132 



Surplus-cases 393 



Swarm-catchers 554 



Swarming 363, 408, 411 , 426. 475 



Sweet Pyramid 755 



Syrian and Italian bees 4. 404 



Taste end odor of honey 612, 698, 



745 77» 



Tasting of a honey-bee 739 



Taxation of bees 309.341,344, 346, 



347, 404. 419, 4-56, 472, 488, 503, 711 



Telling the bees 218,227 



Temperature inside of hives SOW. 



612 710 



Temperature of bee -cellars ..328, 825 

 Temperature of bees in winter... 



90, 184 309 



Testing beeswax 259 



Texas state fair 747 



The coming boe 680 



Th.Miiubi IS St ill S4 



Thinu's ■■ ni'w " and "old" 75 



TrmciI brood-chambers 501 



Tight ceilings in brood-chambers ISO 



Toledo exhibit 650 



Top storing and side-storing.. 68, 13© 



Top-ventilation of hives 772 



Tran^f.-nin;,' iices 227,324,660 



Trnu!,l<Mi h.M-Iore 441 



Tfnublesnnie bees 330 



Two queens in one hive 189,489 



Uniting colonies 137, 619. 693, 726 



Upward ventilation in wintering. 



57, 203, 283 299 



U. S. Apicultural Station 19 



Using old combs 228 



Varieties of bees 79 



Varnish barrels for honey 123 



Ventilation and temperature in 



winter 58 



Ventilation of hives. 122, 357, 613, 820 



Virgin queens 410 



Visit to Dr. Tinker's apiary 40 



Visit to J. B. Hall's apiary.... 330,630 

 Visit to 8. T. Pettit's apiary 408 



"Water in honey 388 



Wavy combs 715 



Wax -secretion 10 



Weak colonies 276,345,373,411 



Western fair in Canada 713 



What fools these mortals be !.... 723 



What the bees sing 579 



Wlio owns tlie bees? 426 



Who sh.iuM keep bees 167,791 



Whv is it mysterious? 483 



Wide frames with separators 149 



Width of brood- frames 820 



Wing-clipped queens 136 



Winter depositories for bees 437,535 



Winter flights for bees 164, 171 



Wintering bees... 11.70, 135, 139, 



150, 1^5, 203, 251, 264. 278, 293. 



297,313.394. 421,472.570,600, 



629. 68 1 , 744 808 



Wintering bees in a pit 52 



Wintering bees in a straw-stack. . 



692 778 



Wintering bees in cellars 38, 136, 



164, 201.26t>, 311. 346.360 660 



Wintering bees in clamps 714 



Wintering bees under a kitchen. . 804 



Wintering problem 250,314,725 



Winter meetings of bee-keepers. 488 



Winter protection of bees 504 



Winter stores of bees 342, 468, 650, 757 



Wired frames 634 



Wiring brood-frames 139 



Words to a honey-bee 311 



Worker bees dying 484 



Worker-comb building.. 372,410. 



437 459 



Work in the apiary 373 



Yucca brushes 435, 615 



INDEX TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Abbott, L. F., 505. 

 Adrtenbrooke. W.. 57,731 

 AfflerbauKh, N. Vf., 91. 

 A.J. v.. IDK. 

 Alderman & Roberts, 75. 

 Aldrich, A.T.,778. 

 Aldrich.M, M..2I12. 

 Alexander, Theo., 346. 

 Alley, Henry, 18,3. 314. 

 Alyes, (i. M.,71, 167, 263. 

 Anderson, J. L., 107. 

 Ander.son, \Vm., 139,299, 



711. 

 Andre, J. H., 59, 123.202, 



234,265, 361, 393, 408, 



453,506, 522, 550, 569, 



599, 650. 

 Armstrong, E., 202. 

 Amiild,!. N., 186,506. 

 Ashby. G. W.. 251. 

 Aspinwalt, John, 662. 

 Anlt, A. E , 43. 

 Austin, Charlie H.,811. 



Bailey, J. W., 5.5.5. 

 Bailey, Moses, 139. 

 Bailie, B. J., 155. 

 Baker, A. J., 419. 

 BaldridBB, M. M.. 153, 

 267, 377, 774, 81U, 822. 



Baldwin, B. T., 394. 

 Baldwin, O. N., 23, 107, 



60O. 

 Baldwin, P., 327. 

 Balmer, J. A., 249. 

 Banker, €. W„ 407. 

 Barb, J. S., 234. 

 Barber. Ira. 282,360, 458, 



81(1. 

 Barnum, W. M., 235.504, 



570. 

 Barrows. O. B., 776, 810. 

 Baxter, E., 74, 1 19. 259. 

 Beal, C, 123. 

 Beal.O. P.. 139. 

 Beale. Rev. W., 59, 105. 

 Beath, Jos., 137,407,731. 



Beekly, Fred, 105. 

 Beoktell, R. S., 569. 

 Beitel. C. U., 262, 775,807, 

 Beleal, Lawrence, 506. 

 Bell, T. J., 219, 267. 

 Benton, Frank, 435, 454. 

 Bernschein. Ernst, 427. 

 Bert rand, Ed.. 803. 

 Be.sse, Dr. H., 11, 19. 

 Betsinger, N. N., 676. 

 Betten, B„ 410. 

 Billing, Peter, 60. 

 Bingham, T. F., 122, 124, 



169, 227. 251. 487, 507, 



571,616,790. 

 Bishop. I. B.. 515. 

 Bittenbender, J.W., 186, 



776. 

 Bittenbender, S., 250. 

 Bitzer, Wm., 410. 

 Blair. T. B.. 309. 

 Bledsoe. O. F.. 43, 233. 

 BHss, W. W„ 435, 615. 



Boardman, H.R.,123,506 

 Bohn, Gustav, 83, 451. 

 Booth. John, 634. 

 Bostwick. J. R. 395. 

 Boyd, Gardner, 187. 

 Boyer, C. E., 171. 

 Boyles, I.N., 171, 187. 

 Bradish, C. W., 203, 811. 

 Brobst, A. M.. 296. 

 Brockenbrongli, J.W.267 

 Brown, D.. 362. 

 Brown. J. F.. 3. 443. 

 Brown. Dr. J. P. H.. 117, 



586, 695, 745. 

 Brunson, G. A.. 646. 

 Buchanan, J. A., 40. 

 Buchanan & Bro., J. W., 



266, 778. 810. 

 Bull. Joshua. 248. 443 

 Buller. Miss H. F.. 44. 

 Burnet. H. Q.. 264. 

 Burwell, Dr. R. M.. 331. 



538. 



Bussanmas.Otto.587 ,699. 

 Byard, J. L., 763. 



Cady, J. B . 59, 587. 

 Caldwell. J. v.. 124,217, 



H08. 810. 

 ('amul. Wra., 9. 454. 

 Camp. C. A.. 458, 506. 

 Campbell, E.G., 423, 567. 

 Carder. A.. 506. 

 Carman. H. W.. 395. 

 Carroll. B. F., 155. 363. 



537, 747. 

 Carter. D. H , 824. 

 Cates. H. M.. 635. 

 Cedarholm. J. P.. 570. 

 Chaddock. Mrs. M. B., 



278.422. 471. 

 Chapel. W. M.. 233. 

 Cba-praan, Hiram. 43. 

 Chapman, J.. 698. 

 Church, 9. J., 27. 

 Chute, Freeman, 283. 



Clark, H., 170, 220. 



Clark.J.M., 323, 714. 



Clark, J. W., 172. 



Clark, L. C, 90. 



Clark. W.B., 171. 



Clark. Z. A., 124. 



Clarke. Rev. W. F., 37, 

 5.5. 121. 135. 182, 197, 

 198,203, 216, 229, 246, 

 313,327, 358, 389, 468, 

 475, 549, 581, 600, 630, 

 645.677, 741, 758, 773, 

 822. 



Clay.C. M., 227. 



Clay, O. M.. 469. 



Clay. J. B.. 435. 



Clendenin. A-, 699. 



Clickenger. Earle. 598. 



Clough, V. W., 570, 776. 



Clute, Rev. O., 23, 488, 



Coggshali, D. H., 475. 

 Cogswell, C. H., 24. 



