v121

the B.B.K.A., 88
After-swarms, 217
Afternoon in a cottager's
apiary, 211

Age and distance at which

virgin queens mate, 172,
187; of queens, 379
Algeria, News from, 6
Allowing bees to transfer
themselves, 229
Alsike clover, charlock and
vetches as honey plants,227
Amateur bee-keeping, 116
Among, the bee-keepers of
California, 9, 19; the bees
in Ireland, 357
Analysis of Honey, 315
Another, bee-outrage, 46;

novice's first year's bee-
experience, 395; novel non-
swarming idea, 421, 441
Antipodes, Notes on bees and
bee-keeping in the tropics
and, 204

Ants and earwigs, Honey
gum for, 262

Apiary on a roof in Phila-
delphia, U.S.A., 324
Apiculture in 1892, Experi-

ments in, 400, 410, 413, 421
Appeal, An, 246
Appliance dealers and their
customers, 131, 154
Appliances, New, 311; at
Royal show; 252; at Scot-
tish B.K.A., 312
Are bees deaf? 14, 34, 57
Are metal ends needed in

surplus chambers ? 451
Artificial pollen, 108
Artificial swarms from skeps,
Making, 237, 276, 287
Artisan's first year with bees,
An, 437

Asphalte felt for covering
frames, 90

Assisting cottagers to sell
their honey, 223
ASSOCIATIONS:

Auldgirth
(N.B.), 374; British Bee-
keepers', 12, 42, 61, 81,
111, 122, 132, 172, 202, 212,
221, 262, 291, 381, 407, 423,
433, 445, 464; Berks, 92,
321; Bishops Stortford,
93, 342; Bristol, 83, 332,
342; Cranleigh_and Dis-
trict, 302, 446; Darnaway,
Moyness, and District, 333;
Derbyshire, 33, 253, 363,
431; Essex, 162; Glamor-
ganshire, 93, 1322; Goole
and District, 354; Here.
ford, 82; Hunts, 323;
Irish, 23, 183, 272, 358,
465; Kent, 42, 292, 342;
Lancashire and Cheshire,
154, 313, 404, 508; Leicester-
shire, 163, 332; Lincoln,
197, 291; Loughborough
and District, 113; Melrose,
393; Middlesex, 183, 223,
303; Northumberland and
Durham, 163, 192, 490, 501;
Northamptonshire, 61, 292,
323; Nottinghamshire, 72,
3:4, 333, 382; Roxburgh-
shire, 392, 482; Scottish,
103, 173, 217, 271, 293, 371,
312, 323, 373, 381; Shrop-
shire, 352; South of Scot-
land, 235, 253, 341; Staf-
fordshire, 236, 322; Surrey
and Dorset, 168; Vale of
Leven, 374; Warwickshire,
374; Worcestershire, 243
Australian, bee-keepers and
eucalyptus honey, 371;
honey and Custom House
officials, 394
Average for 1893, A big, 418
Averages on the "Wells"
system, 86

Balance-sheet for 1893, A
novice's, 417
Bee associations, Starting,
18; and the promotion
of bee-keeping, 485
Bee, book, The new, 27 ;
Candy, 10, 30, 90, 452;
doings in 1892, My, 16;
doings of a village shoe-
maker, 56; doings in
Hunts, 154; experiences, 97;
episode in co. Kilkenny, An,
470; flowers, 10, 47, 58, 100;
flowers in small gardens,

53; houses, 248; Journal,
Concerning the, 48; notes
from Hereford, 356; notes
from Scotland, 348, 385;
outrage, 15; outrage,
Another, 46; paralysis,
227, 248; parasites on
queen, 408; parasites, 330;
prospects, Present, 121;
plants, 176, 215; plant,
Gorse as a, 49; show at
Aberdeen, 342; stings, 9,
89; stings and rheumatic
gout, 138; stings and rheu-
matism, 326; syrup, Scent-
ing, 57
Bee-culture in country, 343;
in allotment gardens, 388;
in United Kingdom, 443
Bee club, Cranleigh and
district, 302, 346; Wrock-
wardine, 363

Bee experience, Novice's first

year, 395; A novel, 396;
My first year's, 367, 387
Bee-keeper, My experiences
as a, 67
Bee-keepers' associations and
honey sales, 424
Bee-management in summer,
228, 238

Bee reminiscences of the
past, 482, 489, 500
Bee-van lecture tour, 128
Bee-keeping, A Chinaman's,
29; A gardener's, 117; as
a business, 432; as taught
in schools, 75, 166; at the
Cape, 65; among the
Jurupa Mountains, 4, 104;
amateur, 116; County
Councils and the promo-
tion of, 454; Farmers and,
482; in the South of
France, 4, 104; in a nut-
shell, Successful, 54; in
Palestine, 78; in New
Zealand, 255; in the tropics
and the antipodes, 377; in
co. Wexford, 420; Lectures
on, 268, 439, 481, 490, 491;
Making the most of, 12, 23,
32, 43; notes, 234; Tech
nical instruction in, 106,
114, 173, 217; in Sussex, 508
Bees, about dwelling-houses,
296; abnormal, 345; at-
tacking fowls, 175; and
honey at the Yorkshire
Agricultural Show, 321;
and bee-keeping in Car
marthenshire, 466; and the

"Wells" hive in Derby-
shire, 378: and honey in
Jersey, 367; and fruit
culture, 407; and their
ways, 23; and the Bishop,
452, 458; and the baby,
470; and limes, 507; and
honey-dew, 238; and
poppies, 330; and toads,
246; and salt water. 159;
and brace combs, 277; and
horticulture, 294; and
combs in hive roof, 286;
Artisan's first year with,
437; building comb out-
side hives, 257; birds and
flowers, 106; cast out, 305;
casting ont drones, 189;
cleaning up wet combs and
sections, 428; clustering
outside hive, 340; combs
breaking down in driving,
452; dead from starvation,
140; deserting nucleus
hive, 150; deserting hives,
189; De Quincy on, 388;
Enemies of, 143; Essays
on, 452; fighting, 277;
fraternising, 120, 285, 508
fraternising in "Wells"
hives, 266; going back to
old location, 39; hanging
out, 338; How I came by
my, 26; in Berks, 215; in
co. Kilkenny, 437; in co.
Down, 48; in Hants, 176,
468, 507; in Ireland, Among
the, 357; in North Devon,
107, 449; in New Zealand,
274; in roof, 317; in skeps
dying, 39; in South Shrop-
shire,428, 467; in Somerset,
429, 458; in Staffordshire,
435; in South Devon, 460;
in the Midlands, 215, 418;
in the South, 215; in twin
hives, &c., Driven, 143; in
"Wells" hives, 431; in
woods, 118; killing drones
in May, 219; leaving straw
skeps, 297; Lectures on,
52, 104, 124; leaving their
hive in cold weather, 492;
Maintaining the working
impulse in, 232; Mishap
with, 488; Moving, 248,
358, 408, 509; entering
sections, 229; Nightingales
and, 246, 257; perishing in
snow, 451, 454; Protecting
cows from, 50; refusing
foundation, 349; refusing

white super foundation,
361; refusing to enter a
"Wells" hive, 370; Re-
moving,
49;
Soldiers
routed by a swarm of,
358; swarming in Septem-
ber, and deserting brood,
378; South African, 65;
Treacle for, 50; Wintering
driven, 379; working on
tare stems, 259; short of
stores, 509

Beet sugar for bee-food, 390
Beginners, Old hands versus,

430; driven bees for, 413;
and "Wells" system, 87
Beginner's, queries, A, 389;
troubles, A, 471
Beginning bee-keeping, 159
Beeswax, 55; Market for,
413; Price of, 460; Mr.
Wells' system of extract-
ing, 515

Best bees

honey, 227

for extracted

Big average for 1893, +18
Biggar honey show, 343
Birch-trees and bees, 178
Boiling syrup, 130
Breeding, Late start in, 109;
in the north, Early, 106;
experiments in apiculture,

400

British exhibits for Chicago,

252

British Bee Journal and
eucalyptus honey, 473
Brood, Chilled, 186, 249;
chambers, Size of, 169, 198
Bromine for foul brood, 233
Bundle of queries, 187
Building up stocks by adding
brood, 129

Buying, bees, 20; diseased

bees, 169; sections, 259;
wax, 431

Cakes of wax cracking, 330
California, Among the bee-
keepers of, 9, 19

Calico for covering frames,

130

Cane sugar for bee food, 130,

422

Candy, 10, 30; feeding, 48;
making, 91

Can, fertile workers produce
any but drones ?

227;
bees withdraw their sting,
345

Cane for straw skeps, 358
Candied honey, 431

Canadian Bee Journal, 317
Carniolan

crease, 168

Carbolic

329

bees and

in-

fumigators, 328,

Carrying, bees on Bicycles,
177, 439, 504
Castle Douglas, Honey show
at, 354

Casting out drone brood, 217
Caterpillars, destroying. 450
Catching queens in autumn,
336

Charlock, vetches, and alsike
clover as bee-plants, 227
Caution, A, 469
Cheshire report, A, 469
Chicago, On my way to the
world's fair at, 282; Brit-
18h exhibit for, 2, 52;
Honey for, 12, 22, 68;
Through Canada and the
lakes to, 375; Show of
honey for, 31
Chilled brood, 186, 249
Chinaman's bee-keeping, 29
Christmas chips, 7
Claiming runaway swarms,

Clipping queen's wings, 10,
461

Clun (Salop) Horticultural
Society, 364

Coat buried in honey, 396
Colonial honey, 216
Comb, Suspected, 178; Mil-
dewed, 59; honey, Early
granulation of, 361; honey
by post, 362; foundation
and foul brood, 154;
broken down, 69
Combs, in hive roof, 286;
Transferring bees and,
440; from frame hives to
boxes, Transferring, 441;
breaking down in driving
bees, 452; Moths in, 452
Coming bee and honey shows,
192

Compulsory removal of bees,
178
Comparing the double and
single queen system, 195
Competition for prizes, Show
of honey for Chicago, 31
Completing sections, 289
Concerning the Bee Journal,
18

Continental bee journals,
Reviews of, 148, 158, 178
318, 399
Copyright acts, 99
Cottagers' small exhibits,
Prizes for, 327
County Associations, and the
presentation at the Man-
sion House, 441; and the
promotion of bee-keeping,
454

Covering for frames, 259
Criticising the critics, 117
Crooked combs, 208
Cure for bee-sting, A new, 9
Curious effect for a bee-
sting, 285

Curious retreat for bees, 295
Cutting queen's wings, 287

Death of President of Lin-
colnshire B.K.A., 494
Depth of entrances
"Wells" hives. 127
Deserting, "Wells" hives,
Swarms 216; brood, 378
Destroying, wasps,
wasp's nests, 249;
Destroying caterpillars, 450
Dialysis, Examination of
honey by, 62, 73, 83, 93;
of honey, 447
Difficulty in extracting
honey, 366
Dishonest, exhibiting, 403,
427, 448; exhibitors, 428
Disinfecting hives, 48
Distance, bees fly at a profit,
137; at which queens mate,
Age and, 187
Dividing stocks for double
queening, 148
Divider, The "
forated, 167

Wells" per-

Do bees, hear? 45, 64;
gather poisonous honey.
351

Do bee-keepers adulterate
honey? 487

296

Does bee-keeping pay? 498
Doings, in 1892, My bee, 16;
up to date, My, 37; of a
village shoemaker, The
bee, 56; in Hunts, Bee,
154; in Derbyshire, 156
Domesticating humble-bees,
Double-queen system, 92,
121, 151; The "Wells
dummy hive suitable for
the, 234
Double-queened, hives and
Italian bee-keepers, 417;
stock counted as two
colonies, 86; hive, Trans-
ferring bees to, 119; hives
and their management,

166
Double, and single-queen
system, Comparing the,

195

Double hives, Entrances for,
49
Driven bees, and "Wells "
hives, 258; Wintering,
379; Giving young queens
to, 409; for beginuers,
413; in twin hives, 143
Driving, condemned bees,
198; bees from straw skeps,
299; bees from supered
skeps, 349

Drone brood, Casting out,
217; in worker cells, 249
Drone-breeding, queen, 108,
158; in March, 118
Drones, Early, 105, 117, 123,

138; Scarcity of swarms
and, 256; Scarcity of, 277,
287

Dr. Tinker, A reminder to,

16

Dysentery and wax-moth,
Remedies for, 20

Early, drones, 105, 117, 138
blooming of honey plants,
189; breeding in the north,
106; drones in Scotland,
129; granulation of honey,
365; harvest, 171: swarm,
An, 105, 117, 166, 176;
swarm in Surrey, 186;
sections and" Wells" hive,
185; sections, 157, 176, 185;
supering, 161

Earwigs, Bees and, 118; in
hives, 258

Echoes from the hives, 28,
39. 49, 58, 79, 88, 99, 109,

146, 157, 167, 176, 197, 226,
236, 247, 268, 285, 298, 308,
317, 329, 338, 349, 368, 379,
389, 398, 40, 440, 452, 481
Edinburgh show, Scottish
B.K.A., 293; honey show,
Some notes on, 382
Editorial opinion, 362
Effects of the season, 321
Ends for surplus chambers,
Wide, 469

Enemies of bees, 143
English methods
French, 27

versus

Entrance for double hives, 49
Errors, Lecturer's, 468
Essays on bees, 45%
Establishing two queens in a
"Wells" hive, 265
Eucalyptus honey, 106, 416;
Australian bee-keepers'
and, 371; The British Bee
Journal and, 473
Evaporation of honey, 411
Examination of honey by
dialysis, 62, 73. 83, 93
Excluder zinc, 375
Exhibiting, Dishonest, 403,
427, 448; at the dairy show,
439

Exhibitors, Dishonest, 428
Exhibit for Chicago, The
British, 2

Exhibits at shows, 68
Experience, as a bee-keeper,
My, 67; with bees and a
"Wells hive in Derby.
shire, 378
Experiences, of a Hunts bee-
keeper in 1892, 35; Bee,
97, 367; with the" Wells
hive, 214, 265, 395, 420;
with the Wells" system,
My, 397; A begin-
ner's, 287; suggestions,
&c., 336; in 1893, A lady's
bee-keeping, 429
Experiments, in apiculture
in 1892, 400, 410, 413, 421;
with the "Wells" dummy,
436; at the Michigan
State apiary, 455
Expert's,apiary, A visit to an,
304, 346; certificates, 100
Extending the "Wells"
system, 207, 240
Extracting, wax, 388, 507;

method of, 347; Thick or
thin combs for, 479; from
brood chambers, 247;
frames, Wider metal ends
for, 326; honey, Difficulty
in, 366; Storing away
comb for, 450; honey at
shows, 404
Extractors, 88
Extracted honey, Best bees
for, 227; Froth on surface
of, 409

Failure, with the "Wells"
dummy, 478; to find queen,

279
Falcon sections, The new, 12
Farmers and horticulturists
should be bee-keepers,
Why, 293
Feeding, with dry sugar in
winter, 472; and medicat-
ing bees, 481; back honey,
421; candy, 48; neglected,
47; Porto Rico sugar for,

89

Feeders, Leaking bottle, 481
Felt for covering frames,
Asphalte, 90

Fertile workers, 239; pro-
duce any but drones ? Ĉan,

227
Fermentation of honey, 390
Few days in an? expert's
apiary, 304

Finding queens in autumn,
332, 383

Find of honey, A good, 295
First, year's bee-experiences,
367, 387, 395; year with
bees, An artisan's, 437
Flour candy, Using, 59
Flowers, Bee, 10; Bees,
birds and, 10

Flower-pot super, A, 217
Food, for winter, 380; for
bees, Spring, 90; Sugar
for bees, 350

Foul brood, 229, 390, 412, 422;
remedies, 41; Important
paper on, 102, 112, 123,
131; Suspected, 199, 219,
237; Treating, 236; cured,
296; Dealing with, 369
Foul-broody, combs, Using,
187; stocks storing surplus,
158; bees, Taking charge
of, 79; bees, 360
Foreign honey, 284; com-
petition, 493, 506, 507
Foundation, Wiring, 156,

208; Bees refusing, 349;
white super, 361
Fowls, Bees attacking, 175
Fraudulent showing, 428