INDEX 



301 



Honey producers, women successful, 

 11 

 pump, 169 

 ripening of, 187 

 straining, 189 

 Honey-dew, 50 



unsatisfactory for wintering, 

 128 



Increase, 100 



Inspectors, business of, 229 



requirements for successful, 231 

 Italian bees, 27, 98 



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, 296 



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 



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 



