796 



IXDEX TO GLEANINGS, VOL. XL 



Dec. 



bleh.,65, 4M, 5S>; tall h.,with L. fr.,79: 

 patent h., 83, 140; perf. zinc, 85; wood 

 seps.,86 254: trouble with 2-story h., 92; 

 Qoklen h., 1'2S; dummy on upper story, 

 141; Ion" t Ml ■■u'>iit h, 151; seps. or not, 

 ISO; bt uj Lirli. covers, 183; small brood- 

 chambers, 301; wood seps., 251: empty h. 

 under b.. 251; obs. h.. 281, 419; decoy h., 

 285,499,500; Langstroth on chaff h.,367; 

 tenement h., 382; good points of enam'd 

 sheets, 382; toy h., 415; leaky covers, 431; 

 proper wood for h., 439; Langstroth, 441; 

 to prevent bottom-bars from sag'g, 443; 

 extra entrances. 449; brick h, 505; the 

 Langstroth h., 522; chaff h..531; obs. h. 

 with 3 frs,. 534; golden h.,.560; Mitchell 

 h., C08; Langstrotli h. and frame, 613; en- 

 trances in winter, 727. 



HONEY. 



To store and market comb h., 69; sell- 

 ingh. too cheap. 64; adulterated h., 71; 

 candying of h., 91; first h. for 1883, 93; 

 melting candied h., 116; selling h. on 

 com., 118; to market h., 118; thick h., 127; 

 bitter h., 131; apple h. in bo.xes, 136; h. 

 on the floor, 142; non-gran'g h., 189, 239; 

 black h., 219; broken h.,244; to soften h. 

 by steam, 252, 389; light h. from h.-dew, 

 2.56; maple h., 254; to whiten h., 286; puri- 

 ty of granulated h., .320; straining ext. 

 h., 378; Muth on pure h. and glucose, 392; 

 first-gathered linden h., 416; h. in old 

 apiaries, 455: h. for mosquito-bites, 460; 

 poison h., 484; sour h., .529; broken h.. 

 531; fr's of old h., 539; sour h., 544; old 

 way of getting h... 591); wood mats made 

 of wire, 600; sunshine and h., 611; cann'g 

 h. in glass, 612; to sell h., 676; candying 

 h.,680; bitter h., 683,787; h. inCont.hive,685; 

 granulating of h., 742; honey in glass 

 .iars. 751; marketing h., 20; i^elling ext. 

 h.,29; to stick labels on tin, 35; putting 

 h. in crates, 118; giving crates with h., 

 118; to fill honey-pails, 167; Walker's 

 case and crate, 177; wooden vessels for 

 h., 257; combined case and crate, .315; 

 Burnett on packing h., 319; labels on tin, 

 383; Stuart's honey-stand, 417; Walker's 

 crate, 368. 445: hon'e.v-pails, 512: labels for 

 comb h., 556: tinware for h., 632; Slater's 

 section crate, 709. 



HONEY-DEW. 



Honey-dew, 33. 85, 93, 127, 180», 257: h.-d. 

 from sugar-cane, 521; h.d. in field, 536; 

 cryst'd h.-d., .541, 670. 



HONEY-PLANTS. 

 Flowering maple (see abutilou); mon- 

 arda punctata (see horsemint); wheat- 

 stubble, 9, 39, 144: melilot. 11: horse- 

 chestnut, 12; gladiolus, 28; Virginia 

 creeper, 31; abutilon, 31, 64, 124, 141: rape, 

 33; buttonwood, 38; horsemint. 40, 220; 

 goldenrod,42: silverhull buckwheat. 42; 

 smartweed. 63; Russian sunf., 78, 89, 286; 

 asparagus, 89, 139. 261: alsike clover, 112; 

 to prolong lmden,115; figworc, 120, 137, 

 188,261, 4.51; poinciana pule, 12.3, 189, 193, 

 303; heart's ease, 134, 186, 386: matrimony 

 vine, 135; honeysuckle, 135, 188, 303; hova, 

 136; Japan lily, 136; tomato, 142; Molly 

 Heath, 143; snowdrop, 144; catnin, 153; 

 riispberries. 169. 256; gallberry. 179, 187; 

 chestnut, 179; silverhull buckwheat, 180; 

 corn, 184; palmetto, 187; sweet potato, 

 187; mountain sage, 190, 301; hedges, 194; 

 sugar-cane, 218; willow, 248; hedee, 218; 

 aster, 253; tobacco, 262; basswood, 262, 398, 

 451, 456, 462,040; black locust, 239, 385; rais- 

 ing honey-plants, 239; willows, 298, 329, 

 720; buckeye, 299; mesquite-tree, 303: 

 vetches, 303; sage, 303; to save seed of al- 

 sike, 323; honey-locust, .347; vanilla, 377; 

 wild lupine, 387; sundial, 387; milkweeds, 

 387, 512; primrose, 387: buckbush, 388; 

 sweet clover, 388, 451: apple-blossoms, 389, 

 456; saw-palmetto, .397; lilac, 398, 467, 569; 

 honey peas, 402; wild cherry ,414; fuchsia, 

 422; burr-flower, 453; hound's tongue, 4.54; 

 :iack-oak, 502, 544, 759; vine-maple. 503, 644; 

 hemp, 604; water-lily, ,505; alsike, 511; 

 sourwood, 537; fireweed, 5.38; corn, 539; 

 wheat-stubble, 540: alfalfa, 640; parsnips, 

 .543; cotton, 513,568,686; cabbage-palmet- 

 to, 544; black-oak, 544, 658, 759; weed to 

 poison flies, 644; goldenrod, 560; wax- 

 plant, 569; poplar-trees, .570; aster, .574; 

 Canada thistle, .594; dodder, 604; sumac, 

 COS, 689; prickly ash, 611; basswood bloom 

 in the .South, 611; corn, 612; Rocky-moun- 

 tain bee-plant, 669; aster, 682; Macai-tney 

 rose, 683; dog-fennel. 683. 787; orange- 

 blossoms, 685,754; banana. 685; o.ak-balls, 

 689;oak-leaves, 704: peas, 707: white sage 

 of Cal., 710; chittim-tree, 715; soporific 

 plants, 760; dhourra, 752; to get early 

 plants, 786. 



INTEODUCING. 

 Simmin's book on int., 130: White's 

 mode of int'g, 312; int. when b. rob, 513; 

 McBride's method of int'g, 514; intr'g to 

 colony having a queen, 083. 



MACHINERY, ETC. 

 Windmills, 34, 57; foot-power saws, 34, 



82, 167, 188. 242. 319, 321, 385, 3S9; fdn. mills, 

 our own, 68, 85; table in honey-house, 82; 

 parallel bars to saw-table, 89; corn-shell- 

 er buzz saw, 142; Cook's brush, 231; cut- 

 off saw-table, 236: cider-mill buzz-saw, 

 242; Malone's power saw, 2.58; smokers to 

 kill vei-rain, 263; saws, 403, letter-clip. 

 488; harpoon for worms, 486; hive-carri- 

 er, 607; cart to move hives, 629; Smith's 

 pump, 630; Cook's bee-brush, 666; uncap- 

 ping-box made of wood, 667; machine to 

 mark boxes, 703; tenexine for solder, 757. 



POLLEN. 



Pollen from elm, 185: pollen and dys.. 

 191, 192,304; white pollen, 191: pollen from 

 chickweed, 194; pollen from cottonwood, 

 286; white pollen, 431, 467; white pollen 

 from plantain, .569; exeess of pollen, 601. 



PEOPOLIS. 

 Propolis on sees., 177; poison propo's, 

 188; prop's to seal cans, 669. 



aUEENS. 



Rearing queens by electric light. 320; 

 clipping q's, 383; q's that won't lay if not 

 allowed to sw'm. 393; dollar q., "Cook's 

 views, 6, 32; preventing q. from going up 

 stairs, 10; three laying q. in one hive, 

 12; q's hatching in less than 16 days, 21, 

 27,31: drone-layers, 81; Impoi-ted queen 

 from Italy, 81; two q's in hive, 94; q.not 

 laying after moving, 133; q. fiying from 

 comb when hive is open. 154*; q's lost on 

 bridal trip. 179; do old q's le.id sw.trms? 

 181*; two q's in a hive, 191: to clip q's, 

 211,285; young q. leading first sw'm, 253; 

 q. losing leg. 253, 326; clipping wings, 285; 

 to raise choice cells, 326; naming q'a, 366; 

 q's not following swarm, 375; two old q's 

 in hive, 395, 473; q's that are not q's, 395, 

 468; q.not laying for 8 mos.,39S: hatch- 

 ing q's under a hen, 421; two q's in h.,440, 

 449; q. stinging workers. 4.56; color of 

 imp. q's 463; catching q's to mail, 463; 

 q's wrong end up, 464: q's sometimes 

 sting. 487: h.atching q's under tumblers, 

 494; clipped q's. 519, 6'27: int. virgin q's, 

 .519; Hutchinson's i)lan with q's 520;drone- 

 layers of rlipiicd virgins, 526; to get good 

 q's, 542: h.itiliiiiL;- queens in incubator, 

 .571; acceptance of q. in a hive contain- 

 ing a q.. .598; q's across the Atlantic by 

 mail, 599, 749; wedding flights, ,598; fert. 

 q's taking airing, 598; q's found ne.ar 

 entrance, 610; two q's in h., 612; intro- 

 ducing virgin q's. 665; young q's laying 

 dr. eggs, 680; clipping q's, 383 686. 



aUEEN-OELLS. 



To get q. cells with old q. in hive, 12, 16; 

 artificial q. cell, 16; hatching cells under 

 a hen. 148; qneen-c. 9 days in hatching, 

 391; Alle.v's plan of rearing, 394; destruc- 

 tion of royal cells, .598; inserting queen- 

 cells, 602. 



EEPOETS. 



First r. of 1883. 91; big r., 88, 91, 1.39; D.a- 

 vis'r.,5t2; Hunt's r.,684; marvelous r., 

 713. 



Further reports can readily be found 

 by looking up the name of the person, 

 the State he I'vps in. or under the de- 

 partment heading of " Reports Encoura- 

 ging " or " Blasted Hopes." Reports for 

 1883 are so numerous that any classifica- 

 tion furthei- than this would tend rather 

 to confuse than enlighten. 



SECTIONS. 



Half-pound s., 10, 39,66.72.74,75.77.86, 

 92,126,181,248; pound s ,17, 116; labeling 

 sees.. 48; see's under brood nest, 129; dis- 

 pensing with see's, 136; Walker's imp. 

 in sees.. 1.50: cheap sees., 186; Cal. sees., 

 320; mildewed sees., ,336; one-piece v. 

 dove-t. sees, 368; to tell when sees, are 

 filled. 458; nat. starters for sees., 4.50; 

 S3CS., partly filled, 462; Manum sec .520; 

 aspen for sees., 390, 540; dose-topped sees. 

 565; to remove sees., 611; sees, during 

 honey-flow, 611; veneer sees.. 626; close- 

 topped sees., 686; one-piece sees, made in 

 1876, 689; home-made sees.. 709. 



STINaS. 



stings for lieu r:ilgia, 93, 140; stings in 

 the eye. 185; stings a-i a remedy, 254; 

 stings, .323. 



SWAEMINa. 



Smoke tors., 11; sw'g at night, 30, 42, 

 123; sw'g too early, 30; bushes for swar's, 

 87; how Shepard stops abs. swarms, 90; 

 smoke for s., 90, 189; uns. brood for new 

 sw's, 91; bee balm for sw's, 116; setting 

 hive in tree, 1.50*: sw'g in large apiaries, 

 104; hiv'g sw's with clipped q's, 179: hiv- 

 ing bag, 193; to prevent sW'g, 213; to 

 make sw'g convenient, '232: to find bee- 

 tree, 241; do sw's issue without clust'g! 

 242, 299, .305, 322, 325, 3'?0, 327, 330, 369, 371, 383, 

 390, 392, 458, 464, 543, 558, 613, 687, 741 ; sw's in 

 honey-h., 244, 383; sw'g too early, 257; 

 abs. sw's, 298; mirrors m sw'g, 299; sw'g 



with 2 q's, 299; settling sw's with mirror 

 299; sw'g in May in N. Y, 306. 391: sw'g in 

 rain, 349; sw'g with clipped q., 374; sw'g 

 prevented by more room, 379; why new 

 sw's go off, 380; energy of new sw's, 386; 

 smoke for high sw's, 389; baskets for 

 hiving, 392; uns. brood not a preventive 

 against sw'g. 394, 526, 609, 686, 703, 745; sw'g 

 without q., 394; watering with syringe, 

 394: sw'g-baskets, 40t, 619; bells to stop 

 sw'g, 419: hiv'g 6 times, 447; hiving bees 

 where they cluster, 447; sw'g in the rain, 

 4.58; to prevent abs., 461; swarmingwhen 

 cloudy, 467; hiving-boxes, 601; to make 

 art. .sw's, 512; nat. sw'g preferred, 519; 

 abs. sw's, 527; automatic sw'g, 572; sw'm 

 through a swarm, 575; an old swarm, 585 ; 

 persistent sw'g, 676; Shepard sw'g box, 

 682; to prevent sw'g, 686. 



VENTILATION. 

 Vent'g hives for comb honey., 78; up- 

 ward ventilation, 188; stopping upward 

 vent'n, 522; bottom vent'n, 354; draft 

 thro' hive, 382; sub-earth vent'n, 380, 384; 

 Grimm on ven'n, 492; ven'n for comb h,, 

 512; vent'g for comb h., 601; lower ven- 

 tila'n 740; Dottom vent'n, 7.56; downward 

 ventilation, 758. 



WAX. 



Raising beeswax for market, 67; 

 Hatch's exp's in wax, 125; paraftine with 

 wax, 242; refin'g wax, 302; wax instead 

 of h., 457; solar wax-extractor, 521, 669. 



WINTEEINa. 



Hutchinson's clamp, 5; quilts, 17; wint. 

 in cellars, 28; cellars of concrete, 83; 

 flax straw for chaff, 84; subst. for enam. 

 cloth, 90; runii'g water in cellar, 111, 

 windbreaks, 134, 300; cellars ahead, 135; 

 Doolittle's cellar; 172; water in winter. 

 172,247; sub-earth vent'n, 172; wintering 

 under snow, 181*, 193; leaves tor wint'g, 

 186,313,321; sugar syrup for wint'g, 257; 

 bee-caves, 262; wint'g till pollen comes, 

 318; clamps, 322; cleans'g flight in spring, 

 324,395; spring packing, .365; porous cov- 

 ering in spring, 382; wint'g in Simp, h., 

 391; preparing for wint., .532; wint'g 

 without upward vent'n. .597; Hasty's ex- 

 periments in wint'g, 674; Gough's plan 

 for wintering, 684; Fisher's mode of 

 wint'g, 755; winter'g on large scale, 303. 



I.IST OF CONTRIBUTORS 



TO 



GLEANINGS AND JUVENILE FOB 1383. 



Names with a * are in the Juvenile. 

 *Abbott V V, 181; AdamsonJ, 49; *Ad- 

 kins 1, 186; Addenbrooke W, 191; Adair N, 

 218; Adair GD, 609; *Ainsworth H D, 187; 

 Atchley A J, 219; Atchley E J, 222; *Auch- 

 anip.augh E, 184; Aspinwall J, 189; Alex- 

 ander D L, 393, 467; Allender J H, 3.35; *A1- 

 verson J, 147, *160; *Alvis WE, 147; *Alex- 

 ander C B, 148; »Alvis H A, 166; *Alshouse 

 J P 182, 221; Allhands W, 188, 613; Alden O 

 J, 193; Allyn Dr. H S 262, 292; Alley H, 395; 

 Axtell Mrs S J, 119, 182, 239, 244, 379, 543; 

 Axtell, L C, 258; Alvis J E, 501; Ackeman 

 J, 560; Allen L, 687; Ayars D C, 665; 

 Andrews T P, 234,261; Andrews J M, 249; 

 Angell W D, 260; Amberson J W, .571; Ar- 

 wine E D, 347, 715; Ashmead TG, 7.56; At- 

 kinson J P, 393. 



Baldwin Laura E, 788; *Bailey I M, 185; 

 Balch W 11,223, 2.52,389; Barclay W S, 231; 

 Barnaby Mary, 216; Barber J A, 217; Ban- 

 nonJ, 262; Bannon Ola, 788: Barrington 

 Mamie M, 280; Baldridge M M, 306, 372; 

 Bauernteind J H, 402; Baumann C L, 438; 

 Bartram L H, 467; Bartholt T W, 7.53; 

 Berryman W, 7.55; Bliss W W, 782; Black 

 J A, 725; Black Ettie, 286; Bliss Z, 290; 

 Blanton Dr O M, 372 Ji97, 402, 498 ; Blanck 

 E K, 465; Blackman E B, 725; Blaize Mrs 

 MR, 781; Blaize Est H, 787; Bedell Mary 

 L, 350; Bedell Edith, ,350; Bennett Ira, 

 .595; Barb B F, 32; Barlow Horace L, 49; 

 *Baiiies Charlie, 148; Baldensperger Pn 

 J, 70, 746; *Barger Olla E, 166; Barrett 

 Mary E. 169*; Baker Frank, 136; Bellamj 

 Chas, 141; Bassett D S, 148; Baker J C, 143; 

 BashoreJnoG, 182*; Bennett C M, 155*; 

 Behrens F, 94 ; Be»t 1) E, 141 ; Bechtel Susie 

 D, 180*; BeelerCH, 193; Belleflower J V, 

 253; Benton Frank, 283; Beaton Jas, 291, 

 321,406; BinnsD,37,146*; Birchard Dwight, 

 217; Bingham T F, 256; Bishop Win, 330, 

 BinghamJG, 510; Bliss W W, 754; Blaize 

 Mrs M R, .579; Blakslie C G, 84; Bloom 

 MintieS, 1631 .Blair Jno, 136; »Black G D, 

 187; Blanchard Bertha, 217; Black Mrs 

 Thomas, 2lO; Blacklock Robert, 260; 

 Blood A HK, 443; Boyd C H, 42; Bosser- 

 inan Angle, 149*; Boos Harry, 151*; Boom- 

 howerF, 72, 309; Bosserman Win D, 166*; 

 Bostwick C L, 180; Borton Fannie, 214; 

 Boyd Sylvester 216; Bowles Chas, 393; 

 Bolin James, 463, 544; Boardman H R, 437, 

 536; BoggsGeoE,466, Boyd RM, 467; Boyd 

 John 498; Bowers A, 788; Brandon Stella, 

 788; Brooks W S, 618; Bradley James E, 



