SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



INDEX TO CONTENTS 





Advertising honey 168 



Advertising to sell or to buy honey 62 



Age of larvae for queen-rearing 118 



Age when queen does best work 164 



American Breeders' Association 96 



Any progress in non-swarming bees 62 



Appointment Illinois State Inspector 17 



Appropriation Bill for Illinois Association 15 



Bee-paralysis £6, 117 



Best results in comb honey 149 



Breeding the best queens . . . 148 



Brood-chamber in winter 175 



Cause of the swarming impulse 104 



Charging different prices for same kind 



of honey 124 



Chicago-Northwestern Association's Re- 

 port 103 



Clarifying beeswax 56 



Comparative profits of queen-rearing and 



honey-production 72 



Constitution and By-Laws Illinois Asso- 

 ciation 11 



Contracting foul brood 42 



Cross bees 138 



Danger of overheating buckwheat honey . 141 

 Defending against troublesome neighbors 136 

 Diilerence between ripening nectar in the 



^ hive and evaporating it artificially 99 



Discriminating against certain members 



for officers 121 



Distance between queen-breeding apiaries 142 



Distance of apiary from highway 130 



Distance to breed pure queen-bees 78 



Drone-laying workers 36 



Effect of the National Pure Food Law 96 



Experience with Caucasian bees 103 



Feeding queen-larvae 53 



Formaldehyde experiments 31 



Formation of Illinois Association 14 



Foul brood 128 



Foul brood and other diseases of bees .... 19 



Foul brood law 127 



Foul brood legislation 176 



Foul-broody colony defending itself 175 



Freight-rates on bees 61, 74 



Freight-rates on honey 59, 74 



Getting a larger convention attendance . . 94 

 Getting better conventions and attendance 176 

 Groand-moles in the apiary 141 



Hives in cellar 165 



Honey for Texas producers 89 



How far bees go for honey 188 



How to construct Langstroth hives 110 



How to succeed with bees 142 



Illinois Association's Report 33 



Incorporation of Illinois Association 10 



Inspecting apiaries in Cook County 129 



In the poor years prepare for the good 



years that are sure to follow 48 



Introducing a queen to a laying-worker 



colony 165 r 



Introducing queens 156 \_ 



Is honey vegetable or animal ? 108 



Joining the National in a body 109 



Keeping ducks in a bee-yard 138 



League fund 77 



Making certain members ineligible to 



office .- 91 



Management of golden Italians 149 



Members of Illinois Association 7, 8 



Most profitable race of bees 79 



Moths and poUenless combs 88 



National Association's Report 51 



National Food Law and honey 113 



National office-holders 78 



New blood or new strain 55 



Non-swarming and comb-honey conditions 63 



Officers of Illinois Association 6 



Perfect-packages for shipping honey 88 



Plain section or bee-way? 152 



Points in judging bees 176 



Preventing honey-granulation in glass jars 64 



Profitable production of extracted honey. 68 



Progress in getting better-natured bees . . 53 



Progress of bee-keeping 163 



Putting out bees 165 



Queen-fertilization affecting drone-prog- 

 eny 163 



Report on amendments 92 



Report on exhibits , 80 



Report on resolutions 90 



Requeening or superseding queens. . .159, 163 



Secretary Stone's Financial Report 35 



Size of hives 144 



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