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INDEX 
by Peabody .. .. 341 
First . 341 
Importance of Large Over Small. 347 
Principles of . 341 
Eye, Compound . 347, 348 
F 
Fabre’s Observations on Parthenogenesis.... 296 
Failure of Crops Due to Excessive Contrac¬ 
tion .253, 254 
Fairs, Exhibits at. See Honey Exhibits. 
Farmer Beekeepers . 348 
Farmerette Bee-suits .859, 860 
Fasteners for Comb Foundation.220- 223 
Fastening Foundation in Brood-frames and 
Sections .219- 223 
Feeder, Advantage of Boardman. 354 
Alexander . 352 
Automatic .169, 926 
Boardman . 351 
Doolittle . 353 
Friction-top Pail . 352 
Miller . 353 
Pepper Box . j . 351 
Various Forms of Construction.350- 353 
Feeding and Feeders. 349 
at Night to Avoid Robbers. 356 
Back .356, 357 
Bees During Winter . 926 
Effective for Two Purposes. 349 
Granulated Sugar Best for. 349 
for Winter .354, 355 
for Winter, When . 354 
How to Make a Syrup for. 350 
in Freezing Weather. 355 
in Spring . 355 
in Spring to be Avoided. 356 
in the Spring versus Feeding in Fall..355, 356 
Out Unfinished Sections or Wet Ex- 
tracting-combs . 732 
Outdoors . 357 
Outdoors, Disadvantages of . 358 
Outdoors, How to Do It. 358 
Outdoors to Circumvent Robbers. 731 
Outdoors versus Feeding in the Hives . . 
to Stimulate Brood-rearing. 353 
Female, True . 6 
Females Undeveloped . 5 
Fence. See Comb Honey. 
Fences for Sections.231 ; 233 
Fences for Windbreaks..912- 914 
Fertile Workers. See Laying Workers. 
Fertilization of Flowers by Bees. See Polli¬ 
nation, Fruit Bloom, Buckwheat, Alfalfa. 
Fertilization of Queens, Artificial. 75 
Figwort . 359 
Filling Square Cans . 341 
Fire Blight .359- 361 
Caused by Bugs and Sucking Insects. . . . 360 
Caused by Leaf Hoppers. 359 
Caused by Plant Life. 360 
Nature of . 359 
Not Caused by Bees.360, 361 
When It Occurs . 359 
Fireweed. See Willow-herb. 
Fixed Frames. See Frames, Self-spacing, Par¬ 
ticularly Hoffman Frames. 
Flavor of Extracted Honey Not Quite Equal 
to Flavor of Comb. 307 
Flight of Bees. 361, 362 
of Bees, Range of . 362 
of Bees Varies According to Conditions. 362 
of Orientation. See Playflights of Young 
Bees. 
Flowers, Forms and Organs of . 671 
food Chambers. See Comb Honey to Produce j 
also Wintering in Cellar. 
Foul Brood .363- 378 
American . 363 
American and European Confusing Symp¬ 
toms . 372, 373 
American. Carried to Other Hives. 365 
American, Confined Mainly to Sealed Cells 363 
American, Distinguished by Tongues 
Pointing Upward . 365 
American, Drugs for it. 370 
American, Fall Treatment. 370 
American, McEvoy Modification of Treat¬ 
ment . 366 
American, Odor of . 365 
American, Pinhole Perforations. 365 
American, Quinby Treatment. 366 
American, Roping Test . 364 
American, Shaking Treatment as Modi¬ 
fied by Phillips .367- 369 
American, Symptoms .363- 365 
American, Treatment and Cure.366- 369 
Detected at Entrance. 274 
European, Alexander Treatment. 375 
European, and the Relation of an Early 
Honey Flow . 376 
European, Differentiated from American 
.-. 370- 372 
European, House’s Modification of Treat¬ 
ment . 375 
European, Miller’s Treatment. 376 
European, Symptoms of .371- 373 
European, Treatment of .374, 375 
Expert Diagnosis of . 378 
Laws, Fundamental Features of. 563 
Laws in Minnesota. 563 
Laws, States Having.562, 563 
Sequence of Brood Diseases. 374 
Two Diseases .. 363 
Worst Enemy of Bees. 299 
Foundation Having Wires Incorporated in it 
. 929, 930 
Improved by Weed, Root and Blanchard. 544 
Indispensable . 10 
Invention of . 543 
Laminated .930, 931 
Narrow Strips for Swarms. 803 
See Comb Foundation. 
Three-ply .930, 931 
Fowls’ Method of Bottling Honey.129, 130 
Fowls on Cause of Swarming. 805 
Frames .,.378- 380 
Bee-space All Around. 105 
Brood . 8 
Closed-end .445- 447 
Closed-end, Danzenbaker . 382 
Closed-end, Quinby .381, 382 
Distance Spaced Apart 317, 381, 582, 767, 768 
for Hives . 445 
How to Handle .12, 13 
Improved Hoffman . 383 
Langstroth, in Dimensions Why Better 
Than Other Frames.441, 442 
Langstroth, More Practical Than Any 
Other .378, 379 
Langstroth’s Invention of. 378, 379, 543 
Movable, What They Have Accomplished 2 
Number of Ways to Manipulate.... 581, 582 
Reversible .722, 723 
Self-spacing .381- 385 
Self-spacing, for Small Beekeepers. 386 
Shallower and Deeper Than Langstroth. 442 
Size and Shape of. 379 
Square versus Shallow or Oblong... 440, 441 
Thick-top . .....379, 380 
to Manipulate. See Frames and Manipu¬ 
lation of Colonies. 
Wiring. See Wiring Frames. 
Friction Drive for Extractors. 346 
Top Pail for Feeding. 352 
