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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Discouraged but determined... 523 



Distilling insect '-* 



Do bee-keepera' conventions 



Do bees hibernate? 779 



Do bees make honey or gather 



jt_ 7 oS'2 



Do bees thin out foundation ?. . 122 

 Docility of the Cyprians and 



Svrians ■•• f-'J^ 



Docility of Syrian bees .- 409 



Does bee-keeping pay? — 245, bS& 

 Does honey asiee with every- 



body -■ 699 



Does it par to use comb foun- 



dation? "^'V'^^? 



Double- Will led hives 1^4. l.i 



Do workers govern the colony ^ lib 



Drones flvine 138, 250 



Drones from worker eggs. .. .... ^^^^ 



Dry sugar for bees 292 



Duty on Cuban honey *>-^ 



Dysentery •• ™ 



Dysentery without pollen 40 



Early bee-plant 227 



Eastern bees ^/^ 



Economizintr wax ^ ^ 1^5 



Educate the customers lo4, !'»?'. ^'r* 

 Elements of success 801 



ENEMIES OF BEES- 



jYnts 568 



Bee-kVlier 603 



Bee-moth 376, 568 



Enemy to boraee 520 



End of Vol. XX - H19 



Bnjoyins a {rood honey-fiow. .. . 5j5 

 Entrance to sections over 



frames l^ ' 



Errata ..-: ^^^'tS 



Brroneou* conclusions 165 



Essays at conventions 73 



Bsser tials in comb honey- racks 39 



Essentials in queens 300 



Essentials of the c jming steam 



enaine » 



Establishing apiaries 396 



Excellent honey crop 426 



Excentncities of queen-breed- 

 ing 443 



Excessive swarming 170 



Experience in wintering 83 



Experience with cellar winter- 



ing . 



. 41, 



107 

 685 

 554 



Experience With foul brood. 

 Experience with sweet clover. 

 Experience with Syrian bees... 43 



Experiments with bees 228 



Experiments in wintering 217 



Expose hives to morning sun... 420 

 Extermination of foul brood.. 378 



Extracted honey 76, 746 



Extracted or comb honey— 



which? 618 



Extracted vs. comb honey o64 



Extra proliSc queens 117 



Extremely cold 59,75 



Facts about bees 378 



Facts in regard to wintering 261,472 

 Facts regarding sweet clover.. 345 



Fall honey 552 



Familiar talk about bees 794 



Fastening fuundalion 



:. .. 39o. 428.436. 459. 491 



Fears spring dwindling 140 



Feeding bees 74.75. 169. 



204, 217, 234. 358. 684, 691, 729 



Fermented honey 603 



Fertilization of tiowers 389 



Fertile workers 294.664 



Few swarms and but little 



honey 460 



Filling and capping of honey- 

 cells 696 



First queen mailed from Jeru- 

 salem ^0^ 



F'rst swarm of the season 217 



Fixed frames 22, 280, 378 



Floating apiary 154 



l<OUl brood .... 186. 355, 572. 644' 733 

 Foul brood and the Nebr. con- 

 vention 291 



Foul brood in the mails 167 



Foul brood— Michigan law 134 



Foundation freshened 153 



Founriation in wired frames... 278 

 Foundation, winter flights, etc. 42 

 Foundation with deep cells — 426 

 Foundation with high side walls 172 

 Foundation with natural cells. . 60 

 Four per cent, of loss in 



winter 204 



From Florida to Toronto, Can. 597 



From Tennessee 2I7 



From the Cottonwood Apiary. . 106 

 From the Buckhorn apiary. 59.812 



Frost 379 



Frostproof houses 74 



Fruit bloom is backward 267 



Fruit in bloom, but no nectar. . 31 5 



Gathering pollen 235 



German bees l-'J 



Getting bees to work in sections 458 

 Getting sections completely 



filled 716,748,825 



Getting statistics 118 



Getting straight combs 25 



Given foundation 172 



Giving away honey at the Fair. 108 

 Glass ng honey in sections 27 



Gloomy prospects 507 



Glucose tty 



Glucose fraud, again 52 



Glucose in honey 75 



Good 4.^9 



Good beginning 171,217 



Good enough 492 



Good fall honey crop expected 554 



Good honey- flow 523 



Good honey season 523 



Good honey yield 444 



Good increase 123. 3i.> 



Good investment 523 



Good prospects for fall honey. 4.^9 



Good results 347. 395 



Good work 395. 5it( 



Good yield and large increase. 7o0 



Good yield of beeswax 764 



Golden hive sharpers 604 



Grading, crating, and shipping 



honey 499 



Granulating of honey IOd 



Great loss 395 



Hail 330 



Half acropof honey 588 



Half-pound sections... lol, 248,362 



Handling bees 387, 731 



Hard on bees 204 



Harmless adulteration 19 



Heavv bloom 4il 



Heavy losses of bees 315 



Heddun's report 471 



Heddun's section-case 27 



Hii-.ernaiion of bees 438, 439, 518, 



r>4;i. r>.'.n. 5ti;',66i.6:)4.7I5. 789.806 



Hill's method of wintering bees 58 



Hints to b'-e-keepers 552 



Hives, tramesand bees 218 



Hives 1 like and use 118 



Hives in use in the West 11 



Hives packed in sawdust 812 



Hiving bees.. 437,457.492,534,570 



Holy Land bees 586 



Home made honey extractor.. 807 



Home market for honey 



43,59,89, 152.217, 691 



Honey and bee shows- 



Canada 675 



Fianklin Co., Ills 739 



Indiana 627 



Kentucky 611 



Lennox, Ont 691 



Lundon. Ont 375,588,651 



Louisville.Ky 666 



Maine 675 



Marshall Co., Iowa 621 



Michigan 662 



Mi!>scjurt 467 



Scotland 531 



St. Joseph. Mo 614 



St. Louis. Mo 612 



Honey and digestion 403 



Honey as a staple article 820 



Honey at the Indiana State Fair 692 



Honey-bees 374 



Honey bird of Africa 11 j 



Honey-boards and section- 

 boxes 244 



Honey-boards, section-case 



etc 811 



Honey cakes 420 



Honey candying 443 



Honey crop 475,499 



Huneycropa failure. 540,604,643 

 Honey crop and fertile workers 12 

 Honey crop below the average. 555 



Honey crop in England 355 



Honey crop in Texas 469 



Honey crop ot California 



211. 259, 307 



Honey crop of Middlesex. Ont. 89 

 Honey dealers, and separators 2i8 



Honey dearth now 491 



Honey-dew 395, 484, 491,536, 



537, 568, 588, 613, 616. 730, 763 

 Honey-dew and white clover 



honey 455 



Honey-dew for^winter stores... 588 

 Honey exhibit at Mich. Fair... 660 



Honey fermenting 262 



Honey-flora of AVkansaa 373 



Honey-Hora of Tennessee 812 



Honev for bees in winter 653 



Honey for children 588 



Honey for home use 788 



Honey from coiton 475 



Honey from white mustard 395 



Honey gathering quaitiea 476 



Honey g-anulated in the fall... 217 



Honey granulation 8, 74 



Honey harvest. wintering. etc.. 4<3(_t 



Honey-harvest in Scotland 7iM\ 



Honey harvest over 5rwi 



Honey in mountainous regions 492 

 Honey interest in California... 37.> 



Honey-jars 153 



Honey-plant for hedges 554 



Honey production and con- 

 sumption 822 



Hone?-production in Northern 



Wisconsin 75 



Honey prospect in California. . . 139 



Honey report 426 



Honey season almost a failure 554 



Honey season in Cuba 4o;i 



Honey show-case 56;t 



Honey vinegar 452, 502, 570 



Honor to whom honor is due 



483, 522, 535, 581 , 6.82 



Hot weather 6d1 



How far will bees go for 



honey? 36,89,181 



Howfardo bees fly V 217 



How far do swarms go ? 684 



How far will bees fly ? 118 



Hi iw many colonies? 778 



How my bees are doing 232 



How the Queen was captured.. 486 



How to begin bee-keeping 297 



How to clean bairelsfor honey 442 

 How to feed sugar syrup to 



bees 729 



How to get rid of ants 491 



How to grow line celery 387 



How to make bee-gloves, etc.. 168 

 How to make honey-boards — 47o 

 How to settle the pollen theory 202 



How to separate swarms 380 



How toshipe.xtracted honey.. 617 

 How to test thermometers los. 139 



How to ventilate cellars 587 



How to wear a bee- veil 91 



How to winter t>ees 540, 58* 



Hunting adulteration. 475,492,724 



Hunting of bee-trees 807 



Hybrids better than Italians... 492 



Iced entrances 204 



Immense honey-crop in Cal- 

 ifornia 540 



Important pi)int in wintering.. 1H2 



Improved bees 299 



Improved foundation fastener 296 



Improved Heddoncase 



133. 153,244 



Improved section-case — 265. 3o9 



Increase 427 



Increase by divison 394,459 



Increased experience 411 



Indications for honey harvest. 379 



Intelligence in bees 68 



International Convention. 611. 810 



Introducing queens 310. 



348.4<i7, 4V«I. 521, 566.571, 580,763 



Iowa wild honey 7i2 



Irascible Cyprian bees 106 



Is Alsike clover a field-plant?.. 108 



Is bee-culture proQtable? 73 



Is comb foundation valuable?. 44 

 Is dampness the cause of bee- 



diarrhcea ? 56 



Is dodder a destructive honey- 

 plant? 795 



Is extra proliflcness a desirable 



quality in queens? 120 



Is honey-dew poisonous?.. 780,812 



Is honev poisonous? 567,613 



Is it bee-diarrhoea? 601 



Is it foul brood? 701 



Is it honey dew ? 553 



Is it lawful to keep bees? 586 



Isthat queen idiotic? 284 



Italian and German bees 6 



Italianized apiary 779 



Italianizing 268,300 



Italian vs. brown bees 2/8 



It pays to use foundation 636 



Jack Frost's work 379 



Keeping bees on shares 779.796.820 



Keeping honey 568 



Keeping moth oilt of combs — 219 



Killed by a bee-sting 636,681 



Killing bees 553, 572, 620 



Killingdrones 585 



Lady's success with bees 724 



Large bees— humorous idea — 372 

 Large combs to prevent swarms 775 

 Large crop of basswood honey 



444.475,503.524,540,778 



Large increase 332 



Last numbcrof the BeeJournal 167 



Late breeding 508 



Let the bees Bwaf-m 551 



Let us deal with facts 378 



Lifeless bees 170 



Light and heavy foundation... 105 



Light on the subject 363 



Lime to prevent dampness 170 



Locating an apiary 74 



Locating and occupying a field. 86 



Long hives 524 



Loss of bees 27. 268, 356 



Louisiana hive, a 668 



Main causeof disease 76 



Maine State Fair 663 



Main honey season past 523 



Making comb foundation,. 123,220 



Making cushions 792 



Maltine 443 



Management 166, 615, 8n9 



Manufactured comb honey 424 



Marketing honey 165. 168, 234, 



3 1 2. 404. 4 1 1 , 4n0.466. 500. 532, 614 



Markets for honey in Asia 419 



Married 427 



May flowers 116 



Melting out beeswax 500 



Message to the bees 538 



Metal rabbets for frames 28 



Method to cure foul brood 23 



Michigan fruit-belt 553 



Michigan hybrids 424 



Michigan State Fair 539 



Midwinter report 155 



Migratorv bee-keeping 452 



Mild winter in Engl and 89 



Milk-weed and honey-dew. — .507 



Milk-weed pollen 599 



Moisture in bee-cellars 663 



More about the Eastern bees., 132 

 More honev than for 3 years. . . 524 



More of Cotton's humbug i3l 



Mortality, brood-rearing, etc.. 141 

 Moth or miller 123 



Moving bees.. 91. 105,122,267.268, 



315, 379.572,701, 733,749.765,788 



Much bloom and little nectar.. 732 



My affliction 267 



My critics 87 



My experience with separators 250 

 My experience with Cyprians.. 250 

 My seas<^>n's work with bees. . 12, 26 

 My success as a beginner 123 



National Convention 579 



National experimental stations 355 



Natural swarming 436,466 



Near-sighted 389 



Necessities of modern bee- 

 keeping 538 



Nectar or honey-dew 774 



Neither increase nor surplus .. - 492 

 New estimate of the "busy bee" 56> 

 New tacts from old theories ... 101 

 New method of uniting nuclei.. 682 



New races of bees 38, 169. 294 



New Zealand comb foundation 



570, 808 



Nicest honey of the season 779 



No bee-cholera 235, 283 



Noise in a bee-hive 620 



Nomenclatures of bee-keeping 



43,67,371 



North, east, west and south — 411 



No signs of dysentery yei 9^ 



No & warms — 416 



Not a honey plant 4Lb^ 



Not one colony lost 235, 34B 



Not progressive 1°** 



Objections to dovetailed sec- 

 tions 362 



Obstinate bees 57 



Obstructed entrances 27 



Oil-cloth cover for frames.. 363, 76» 

 Old and new methods of bee- 

 keeping 26, 1 1& 



Old Virginian and glucose 52 



One-fourth of a crop 475 



Only a drone 668 



Only used tor adulteration 659 



Open-air wintering 235 



Opening year— 1884 3 



Organization for bee-keepers ^ 



602, (28 



Outlook for 1884 168 



Overstocked locality 



43, 230,410,489,534 



Packing bees ... 27. 42,58,123,346 

 Packing honey forshipment.... 75 



Paraphernalia of the bee 131 



Parasitic honey-plant 755 



Paste for huney-labela 136 



PASXrHAGE FOR BEES— 



Alsikeclover 187 



Aster 588 



Blue vervain 621 



California honey-plant ... 804 



Cone-flower t504 



Cow pea ^^7 



Croton ' ^ 



Dodder 735 



Garden carrot 58» 



Goldenrod 621 



Honey locusts 148 



Juneberry 315 



Loose-strife 540 



Mignonette 57^ 



Motherwort 571,604 



Smartweed 3lo^ 



Spider-plant 275 



Sweet clover .^^ 



138, 246, 379, 420, 490 



Tar-weed 668 



Thoroughwort 571 



White clover 204.236,315 



Wild bergamont 460 



Wild sensitive-plant.. 540,604 



Wolf-berry 491 



Peculiarity of laying-workers.. 181 



Peculiar season JJJg 



Perplexing beginners 43© 



^'''."°.'.:'.':!'.'"."I.%t-698;V40.787 



Placing separators 733 



Plan for an apiary •■ 4J7 



Planning for next season s 



planting" foV'honey 201,585 



planting honey-trees i?"- 



Ple:^ for pollen 4TO 



Poisonous honey *«>* 



Pollen 60, 



105, 1 33, 233, 262, 267, 300, 361,501, 



554. 583, 599, 683, 715, 773, 825.826 



Poor honey a cause of disease. 267 



Poor prospects in southern Cal, 427 



Position of frames on the hive 155 



Premium lists 3ii. 44. 48, 212, 275 



Preparing bees for shipment. . . 28 



Preparing bees for winter 



20. 7r«. 1 1 16. 203. 232, 660, 743 

 Preparing honey for market ... 234 

 Preventing honey granulation. '33 

 Prevention of bee-diarrhoea 374,409 

 Prevention of swarming - 



Primary conventions.. 



70 



Principles of protection 406 



Prioritv of location 149, 



.22s. 24H. ;il 1 . 340, 392, 424, 505 



Production uf drones 328 



Production of surplus honey 298, 488 



Profltable increase 92 



Progress in bee-culture 789 



Proof V. Evidence 506 



Prophesying of the weather — 12 

 Purity of drones 620 



