Index to Contents 



Advertising of the Right Sort 115 



Advertising at Fairs 147 



After-swarming a la Heddon._ 46 



After-swarming, How to Avoid.... 66 

 Aikin's Paper Bag for Extracted 



Honey HI 



Alexander Feeder 79, 80 



Alexander Plan of Curing Euro- 

 pean Foul Brood 146 



Alexander Plan, Why Failed 146 



Alexander's Apiary of 700 Col- 

 onies 146 



Alley trap for Controlling Swarm- 

 ing 68, 69 



American Foul Brood. See Foul Brood. 



Apiarian Exhibits 147 



Apiaries and Buildings 43-46 



Apiaries, Avoiding Uniformity in 



Arrangement of Hives in 46 



Apiaries Should be Some Distance 



from the Highway 43 



Apiary, Level Ground for 43 



Apprenticeship in Bees, Serving. ... 14 

 Arrangement of Hives and Build- 

 ings 43-46 



Author's Apiary 43 



Automatic Transferring 164 



Bait-sections for Supers 30 



Baldridge Plan of Curing Foul 



Brood 143 



Balling Induced by Clipping 74 



Balling of Queens in Introducing... 73 

 Bartlett's Method of Packing Bees 



for Winter 168, 169, 193 



Basswood in Full Bloom 90 



Battery for Running Electric Bell... 108 

 Bee Business, Learning from some 



Professional Bee-keeper 14 



Bee-escape for Extracting after the 



Harvest 93 



Bee-hats and Bee-veils 48, 49 



Bee-hunting 16, 17, 18, 19 



Bee-journal, Necessity of 195 



Bee-keepers' Clothing 48, 49 



Bee-keepers, How they Talk 194 



Bee-keeping as a Business 7, 13 



Bee-keeping as a Sole Pursuit 11 



Bee-keeping, Making a Start in ... . 14 

 Bee-keeping not a Royal Road to 



Wealth 30 



Bee-keeping on too Small a Scale.. 



7, 9, 11, 21 



Bee-keeping Poorly Adapted for 



Farming 7 



Bee-keeping, Starting on too Large 



a Scale 23 



Bee-keeping, the Importance of 



Learning from Others 30 



Bee-keeping When not an Exclusive 



Business 12 



Bees at Fairs 150 



Bees Bringing Good Returns on In- 

 vestment 9 



Bees, Carrying from the Cellar 191 



Bees, Discarding Undesirable Strains. 30 

 Bees, Great Difference in Strains... 30 

 Bees, How Soon to Remove from 



Cellar 190, 192 



Bees, How they Sleep in the Cellar. 182 

 Bees, How to Coax into Comb-honey 



Supers 87, 88 



Bees, How to Load on Wagons for 



Moving 120 



Bees in the Walls of a House 15 



Bees, Keeping in Honey-house Dur- 

 ing Extracting 198 



Bees, "Lining" to a Bee-tree 18 



Bees, Loading on Wagons 124 



Bees, Many Instead of Few 7 



Bees-smoker a Necessity 50 



Bees, Moving from one Locality to 



Another 130 



Bees, Races of Compared 29 



Bees, Starting Them in the Supers. . 30 

 Bees, Two Varieties Worthy of Con- 

 sideration 29 



Beeswax. See Wax. 



Bees, Why Swarm 64 



Bee-Trees, How Found 19 



Bee-veil, How to attach to Clothing. 49 

 Beginners Trying to Invent Hives. . 23 

 Benzine for Cleaning Wax off Uten- 

 sils 162 



Black Bees Easily Driven out of Su- 

 pers 30 



Bee-smoker a Necessity 50 



Black Bees not Capable of Resisting 



European Foul Brood 146 



Black Brood. See European Foul Brood. 



Boardman Feeder 78 



Boardnian Hivecart 47 



Bottom-board "Dirt-cheap" 33 



