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LIBRARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE «ARY_ Ul STY OF m AMHERST, isetts SS THE m Jmnrtwl iritis AND BEE-KEEPER'S ADVISER CONDUCTED BY CHAKLES NASH ABBOTT, SOUTHALL VOLUME IX 1881—82 * Observatory Hive, 1S82 PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL, SOUTHALL, NEAR LONDON; AND BY KENT AND CO., 23 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C (hi -f- INDEX Abbott, C N., his paper on The hive for the advancing bee-keeper,' 5-8, 29, 30 thanks voted to, by the ' B.B.K.A., 223 Abbott and Can-, report of visit to Ireland, 50, 51 Abbott amount Bros., of bees'-wax used by, 47; beekeeper's forget - me - nots, 85; new gloves, 119 robber trap, 146, 165 frames, 169 prize division-board, 175 feeding-dummy, 176 top cushion feeder, ib ; ; ; ; ; size Woodbury Woodbury their of frames, 211 standard v the standard frame, 250 foundationfixer, 257 Aberdeenshire, bees in, 125 Adaptors, zinc, 44, 167 African bees, 120 After-swarms, America, bee-show in, 92 ; ; American 257 bee-publications, management Apiary, of an, visit to Mr 2, 25, 26 Cowan's, 86, 87 : visit to a city, 209 managing an, ; ; 242 Bee-stings, 57, 115, 116, 211, 232; euies for, 47,51 58, 74, 123,144, 145; form of, roof, ib.; Syrian, 48, 52, 145 swarm of, in the Strand, 49 dying in sections at rear of hive, 53 in an oil-can, ; ; ; in buildings, 55 ib.; and ; honey, early history of, 57 motto of, 58 charming,' 59 highly trained, 65 paralysis in, 65, 95 condemned, 74, 97, 101 Carniolan, 76, 158 removing from a cottage roof, 77 not swarming, ' ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 79; building across hive,/!).; duration of their lives, 81, 107 cleaning comb chips, 83 in a barrel, 87 freaks of, 95, 97 intoxication of, 95 ; prevention of crowding of, 104 moving to sheltered situations, 106 Ligurian, 107, 158 their sense of colour, 114 mental pleasure arising ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; from the study of, 116 novel use for, 119, 120; Holy Land, 121 deserting their queen, 122 eggstealing by, 123 thrashing, to death, 146 as retrievers of honey, 147 241 Arabis alpinus, 83 Armagh B.K.A., 9, 48, 88, 18a ; lecture at, 72 swarms, 3, 41 Artificial directions for making, 242 Artificial pollen, 191, 194,219 Armenian bees, 23 ; Associations, and honorary secretaries, 100, 161 for- ; mation of, 171 • August, 63 Austrian Society of Bea Friends, 248 Baldwin, S Ja r eport by, on sale of honey, 222 Daltie Provinces Central Association, 06 Ban i't'shire M o r t c u ^fchow, bees at, 113 i Bar-frame 1 u r a1 hive, its advant- ages over the sleep, 107 the coming standard, 250 Barley-sugar, 193 Barnstaple, bees at, 88 Bartrum, Kev K., The Stewart on Hire, 21 ; Bflh and West England Agricultural Show, 5, 9, 33, 70, 223, of 245 Bee, instinct, division of labour, and longevity of the, 15, 16 Bees, lectures on, 10, 18, 33, 49, utilising 237; comb-chips, 15, Armenian, 23 water 29 savage, 35, 188, ; ; for, 189 236, 212, ; ; folk-lore on, 36, 117, poisoned by digitalis 235 purpurea, ; 37 ; Cyprian, 40, 48, 130, 140, 163, 164, 187 ; removing, 41 transferring, to clean hives, i"6, ; 232 Bee-tent and lectures, list of articles for use in 5, 29 Bee-tent engagements, 30, 31, 47 225, 247 Bee-tents, profits of, 247 Bees-wax, amount used in making foundation, 47 Be ready,' 120 Beginner, queries of, 78 autumn difficulties of, 99 Beginnings, small, 217 Belvoir gardens, visit to, 154 Berks and Bucks B.K.A.,71, 199, 205 Bertoli, Signor Giacomo, apicultural enterprise of, 10 Bingham smoker, 169 Birmingham show, bees and hives at the, 48 Bishop's advice, Keep bees,' 57 Bligh, rev and hon H., prize ' ' by, for the most economic method of cottage bee-keepers, 128, 157, 171, 180, 199, 200, 219 rules for the competition, offered ; ; ; ; ; ; April, 55 removing from moving in Greece, 158 ib ; Egypt and Egyptian, ; and snow, 168 ; sting- exposed to a storm, 191 birds, and flowers, 208 cell of the, purity of race in, 209 214 as a public nuisance, with four hours' sunib shine, 215 in a tree, 238 less, ib, ; ; ; 225 Bligh competition, 243, 257 Blow, T., his expedition to procure Cyprian and Syrian bees, 140, 158 his lecturing tour through Wiltshire, 157-9 through ; ; Norfolk, 181 bridge, ib ; ; ; ; discouraging, ib dying, ; removing from a blind window, ib visiting various flowers, 255 Bee - appliances, large de239 ; ; mands improve25 43 Bee-books, 100, 212 Bee census, 152, 234 Bee-culture, ignorance of value of, in our rulers, 43 at South Kensington, 219 Bee-disease, a new, 33, 34 Bee-flight, range of, 23 Bee-flora, 23, 83 Bee-garden pencils, 23 ments for, ; in, ; Bee-gloves, 14, 35, 54, 55, 58, 76, 85, 124, 255 Bee-hives, &c., permanent collection of, at S.Kensing- ton Museum, 199 Bee-houses and hives, 13, 195, 229, 232, 255; Mr liaynor's paper on, 20(1- I, 226 sirable, 152, of, Cam- British Bee-keepers' Association, 4, 29, 47, 70, 113, 131, 132, 171, 200, 221, 226, 215 ; and the authorship of Modern Dee-keeping, 29; Prize Pund, 92 British bee-farmer'shive, 122 British Dairy Show, 140 British Dairy Farmers' Association, hives at, 223 ileitis]/ Bee Journal, advertising the, 180 recognised organ of the B.B.K.A., 223 Broad-shouldered frames, 30 ; Broken combs, bees among, 214 de- casting in super, (iO out, 100 1., his apiary, 153 laledonian Apiarian Society, ; Brown, 234 Bee-keeping successful, 13 beginners in, 212 14, 94 advanced, 250 Bee-lore, 117 Bee-ova, sex of the, 233 Bee-quieting, 124 ; in ; Borage, 124 Boxes, conversion of, into hives, 28, 29 Box-hives, driving from, 78 Brecknockshire B.K.A., 182 Breeding space, contraction of, during honey harvest, 27, 28, 44 Breeding too early, 217 Brighton Health Congress, bees at, 130, 157, 180, 223 Brood Bee-instinct, 21 Bee-keepers, census ? ; < 42, 71, 87, 142 Cambridgeshire B.K.A 79, 140, 167, 181 Caruiolian bees, 76, 158 Cell of the bees, 209 Cement-covered hives, 166 Cessation of income, 218 Ceylon for bees, 56 Chaff-cushions, 105 Charming bees, 59 Cheshire frames, 61 Cheshire, F It., 29, 48, 49, 67, 113, 219 Cheshire, bee-keepingin, 124 Chimney, enticing bees from a, 22 Chloroform, 45 Christian, Princess, 47 Chronological calendar, 195 Claviceps apium, 34 Clonmel, bee-show at, 50 Close-ended frames, 95, 233, ' ' 236, 237 Cockburn, 236 A., 180, Colorado, bee-keeping in, 21 Colour, sense of, in bees, 16* Comb -foundation, 25, 27, for 58, 124, 167, 169 ; swarms, 74 for skeps, 23 Comb honey v extracted, 27 Combs, 41 in skeps damstraightening, aged, 64 ; ; ; 100 ; 168 irregular, and ; foundations, 257 Combination hives, utilising back portion of, 83 use ; of the super with, 166 Combination principle, 22, 46, 59 Comet year, 47, 81 Condemned bees, 74, 97, 101 and Ligurian queens, 97 Cook's Manual, 100 Copyable hive, 208, 251 stand for, 237 Cork hives, 202, 232 Cork, bee association wanted at, 147 Cornwall B.K.A., 130, 161 204, 226 Cottage apiaries, the promotion of, 142 Cottage bee-keeping, 128 Cottager, success of a, 185 Cottagers, cheap hives for ; 28/29; helping, 62; plea for, 116; definition of, 234 County bee-keepers' Associations, 47, 48, 151 Bev H E Peel's paper on, ; formation 151 200 organizaanticipated tion of, 185 by an antieut bee-master,' 132-40, ; 163, of, ; ; ' 186 increase ; of, 221 ; shows held by, 221, 222 Cowan, T.W his extractors, , his BeeGuide-book, 72, 100, 148, 150; means taken by him for ascertaining the adulteration of honey, 86 visit to his apiary at Horsham, 86; his Winteron beeing Bees, 186 houses 229 Crates at S Kensington, 69 Crooked combs, driving from, 78 Crown-board, 79 disadvantages of, 166 100, 69, 101 ; keepers' ; ; ; INDEX TO VOLUME Croydon, bees at 75 Cyprian bees, ill, 4*, 141), American 163, 104, 187 opinions respecting, 130 ; Cyprus and Mount Lebanon apiaries, 248 Dairy, poultry, and minor Food Products Exhibition at S Kensington, 219 Dead, cleaning, or robbing December, 151 Derby Agricultural Society, Derbyshire 220, 846 B K A., 1(52, Devon and Exeter B K A., 181, 205 Devonshire, season in, 212 Digitalis purpurea, 37 Distance-tacks, 0, 15 79 Disease or robbery 56 Dividers, 140 the invention '.' ; of, 208 Division labour of among Division boards, 105 Doeken leaf, a cure for beestings, 55 Donhoff, Dr on the properties of royal jelly, 184 Dorsetshire B K A., 72, 109, 110 Dorset, jottings from, 200; season in, 213 Doubling, a new swarm, 00 to save transferring, 191 Doudney, Bev I) A., lecture by, 236 Draught preventer, 117, 104, 215 Dming competition 70 hiving bees, 97, 98, 99, 101 Drones, presence of necessary for the increase of stocks, rearing for ; 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