FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



Meal, Feeding 92 



Medicine, Practice of 14 



Medicine, Study of 11 



Memoranda of 1901 117 



Memoranda of 1882 116 



Mice in Bee-cellars 289 



Nails, Spacing 77 



Non-swarming Preferred to 



Forced 169 



Non-swarming, working To- 

 ward 178 



Nuclei in Fall 275 



Nuclei, Baby 233 



Nuclei, Chance for 159 



Nuclei, Several in Hive 231 



Nuclei, Time to Start 222 



Nuclei, Uniting 276 



Nucleus Built without 'j.elp.. 251 



Nucleus Given to Swarm.... 162 



Nucleus to Prevent Swarming 174 



Numbers, Order of 48 



Office, Author's 304 



Overhauling, Spring 51 



Overhauling, Subsequent . . ,. 106 



Overstocking '. 118 



Parents 10 



Pasturage, Artificial 114 



Pencil, Place for 110 



Piles a Target for Robbers. . . 208 



Piles in Late Summer 208 



Piles, Non-swarming Ifi-i 



Plan, Put-up 157 



Plan. Varying 161 



Playing Bees and Robbers. . . 210 



Push-board 195 



Pollen in Sections 13T 



Polkn, Substitutes for 92 



Queen Balled by Bees 71 



Queen Reared in " Put-up " 173 



Queen, Aids in Finding 59 



Oueen, Best, in Nucleus 225 



Queen, Catching 60 



Queen, Clipping 62 



Oueen, Finding 58 



Queen, Putting down 15H 



Queen, Replacing with Better 3 81 



Queen, Room for 127 



Queen, Watching for 57 



Oueen-cage 234 



Queen-cells Destroyed by Bees 158 

 Queen-cells Destroyed to Pre- 

 vent Swarming 180 



Queen-cells, Brood for 227 



Queen-cells, Distribiiting . . . 238 



Queen-cells, Ijooking for .... 176 



Queen-cells, Placing 224 



Queen-nursery, Advantages of . 242 



Queen-nursery, Miller 240 



Queen-rearing 216 



Queen-rearing, Conditions for 220 



Queens for Out-apiaries .... 245 



Queens Reared with Laying 



Queen 221 



Queens, Confining Young. . . . 171 



Queens, Drone-laying 109 



Queens, History of 49 



Queens, Introducing 245 



Queens, Keeping Caged 171 



Queens, Quality of 243 



Queens^ Young, and' Swarming 165 



Record-book 4 8 



Record, Advantage of Book. . 50 



Records, Making 72 



Reducing to One Story 128 



Risking in Good Season .... 147 



Robbers, when .Troublesome. . 190 



Robbers, Watching for 190 



Robbers, Losing the 211 



Robbers, Leaving Something for 204 



Robber-cloth 201 



Robber-cloth, Quick Covering 



with 201 



Robbing is Fault of Beekeeper 205 



Robbing Started bv Feeding. 206 



Robbing Stopped with Wet Hay 206 



Robbing, Bad Case of 203 



Robbing, Signs of 2n 



Root, A. I., visit to 21 



Saltpeter-rags 67 



Season of 1863 18 



Season of 1903 ]?3 



Ppason of 1913 Phenomenal. . 125 



Seasons, Cliange of 37 



Seat. T-super 53 



Sections 118 



Sections in Go-backs 200 



Sections Needed per Colony.. 125 



Sections Packed in Car .... 266 

 Sections Packed in Sbipping- 



cases 260 



Sections Prepared in Advance 122 



Sections, Bees Emptying .... 256 



Sections, Blocking up Supers of 199 



vSections, Cleaning 257 



Sections, Dauby, Bees Cleaning 257 



Sections, Feeder 255 



Sections, Final Scraping .... 259 



Sections, Final Taking off. . . 254 



Sections. Folding 137 



Sections, Fumigating . . . .199, 254 

 Sections, Getting Bees out of 188 

 Sections, Loading when Ship- 

 ping 266 



Sections, Putting in Supers. . 142 



Sections, Removing from Super 196 



Sections, Removing Unfinished 199 



Sections, Sorting 255 



Sections, Taking off 186 



Sections, Tallying 192 



Seasons, Uncertainty of .... 146 



Sections, Unmarketable 257 



Sections, Wetting 135 



Sections, White, Thick Top- 

 bars for 130 



