INDEX 
Honey producers, women successful, 
ll 
pump, 169 
ripening of, 187 
straining, 189 
Honey-dew, 50 
unsatisfactory for 
128 
Increase, 100 
Inspectors, business of, 229 
requirements for successful, 231 
Italian bees, 27, 98 
wintering, 
Joys of bee-keeping, 7 
Knotweed, 74 
Labels, honey, 266, 269 
net weight, 298 
Lady’s thumb, 74 
Laws, against poisoning bees, 291 
for control of bee diseases, 292 
net weight. 298 
relating to adulteration of 
honey, 2! 
restricting shipment of bees. 
295 
spraying, 291 
Maple, 52, 80 
Market, comb honey, 137 
home, 260 
Marketing, by mail, 276 
by canvassing, 280 
co-operative, 265 
Mice, injury from, 224 
Milkweed, 75 
Miller, A. C., smoke method of in- 
troducing queens, 115 
Miller, Dr. C. C., dequeening meth- 
od, 160 
feeder, 133 
method of making increase, 111 
method of queen rearing, 122 
plan of producing comb honey, 
154-156 
Smoke method of requeening, 
115 
Minnesota feeder, 131 
Mosquito hawk 224 
Mountain laurel, 81 
Moving bees, 28 
301 
Nectar, sources of, 46 
Net weight labels, 298 
New York, law for controlling bee 
diseases, 292 
law for sale of honey, 297 
Nuisance, bees as, 286 
Number of bees in a colony, 94 
Observatory hive, 25 
Occupants of the hive, 88 
Odor of stable offensive to bees, 6 
Orchards, bees as pollenizing agents, 
85 
Outlook for beekeeping, 17 
Overstocking, 82 
Packages, fancy, 273 
for comb honey, 261 
for extracted honey, 263 
Packing cases for wintering, 247 
Packing for winter and summer 
stands, 244 
Palmetto, 77 
Paper cases for wintering, 240 
Partridge pea, 67 
Peddling honey, 280 
Pitting bees for winter, 243 
Poisoning bees, 291 
Poisonous honey, 81 
Pollen, sources of early, 52, 79, 80 
Pollenizing agents, 84 
Portable outfits for extracting, 175 
Porter bee escape, 161 
Postcards, for advertising, 175 
Preparation, advance, 150 
Prices, control of, 264 
retail, 274 
Prior rights, 83 
Protection, of hives in spring, 239 
Queen, 88, 92 
cells, cutting, 102, 158 
clipping the, 101 
excluders, 186 
influence of, 236 
introducing, 112, 220 
rearing, 121 
replacing, 27 
Races of bees, 98 
Receipts for cooking with honey, 
277 
