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INDEX 



Rats 372 



Hallway Companies and Bees 296 



Kaspberry 371 



Uauchfuss Wax-extractor 35'J 



Rearing Drones out of Season 148 



of Queens 347 



" Queens, Doolittle's Method 347 



" " in large numbers 349 



Recipe for Honey Cake 259 



" " Cookies 259 



Gems 259 



" Jumbles 259 



" " Pickled Grapes in Honey 261 



Reclaimed Bees 297 



Record-book, Miller's 372 



Ri cord-keeping- of Hives 372 



Recovery of Bees by Law 296 



Red Clover 88 



Register-card for Queens 374 



Remedies for Stings 405 



Remedial Value of Bee-stings 412 



Remedy for Dyspepsia 261 



Removing Bee-stings 405 



Removing Wax from Utensils 474 



(iendering Old ( 'ombs 459 



Rent f or O u t^apiaries 318 



Replevin, Recovery of Bees by Writ of 296 



Reprodu tive Organs of Queen, by Snodgrass 512 



Requisites of a Good Bee-eellar 487 



Respiratory System 12 



Reversible Frame, Danzenbakor 375 



" Frames 374 



Reversible Hives 374 



" Extractors 173 



Right to Obtain Bees 297 



Ripening Honey Artificially 160 



Robber Bees, toknowtheui 378 



" Where they Belong 378 



" Tents 385 



" Traps, Construction of 383 



'• Their Use and Abuse 382,384 



Robbers after Meal in Barns 342 



" Disposed of in Kobber-traps 3h2 



Robbing 375 



" Bees and Extracting Honey l.'-^ 



" Forstalled by Wire Cloth over Hive 3 



" Habits and t heir Cure 3^4 



'• Nuisance ('in("<l liy Kobber-traps 3st 



•' Prevented with Wet Kags 379 



■' Stopped by Outdoor P'ee, ling 3S6 



Re^<ult of 387 



" Weak Colonies 379 



'• when Feeding 2 4 



" while Transferring 442 



Rockwoods' Wax- press 465 



Rocky Mountain Bee-plant 388 



Roof Apiary 18 



Root s Cage for Handling Bes 194 



Hoot's Wax-press ..466 



Root Foundation-fastener 102 



" Heating-tray for Honey 169 



" Method of Moving Bees 3C6 



" Smoker 394 



Ropy Foul-brood Appearance 135 



Royal Jelly for Supplying tells 350 



Rules for Grading Honey 121 



Russian Hive 254 



Rye Meal for Pollen, to Use 342 



as a Substitute for Pollen 341,342 



Sage of California 391! 



Sainfoin Clover 96 



Salisbury's Wax-press 465 



Scale Hives for Out apiaries 323 



Science of Granulation "8 



Scraping Sections 115 



Screw Pressure vs Lever for Wax-presses 470 



Scent of Bees 391 



Scouts, Bees Sending out 417 



Sealed Covers v. Absorbing Cushion for Winter.. 481 



Sectional Hives and their Use 246 



Section Cartons, the Danzenbaker 120 



" English Glassed 120 



" Sciaping Table 115 



Sections, Four-beeway .119 



" Glassed 120 



" Narrow 119 



" to Fill with Foundation 108,109 



" to Scrape 115 



" Unfinished 116 



" Without Separators 118 



Second-hand Cans, to Clean 156 



" Swarms 3 



Self-spacing Frames 210 



Selling Comb Honey for Cash 130 



Selling Honey in Local Markets 12s* 



" " to Grocers Zi6 



Selser's Honey-peddling Wagon 274 



Sending Honey to Commission Houses 129 



Senegal Bees 64 



Separator, Hyde-Scholl 106 



Separators, Wood or Tin 118 



Shade, Excessive, Detrimental 10,23 



Shade for Bees 20 



Shallow or Full-depth Combs for Extracted Honey. 189 



Sheds for Bees 20 



Sheep in the Apiary 29 



Shipping Bees in Dovetailed Hives 310 



" Long Distances 310 



Box for Bees 310 



Cases for Comb Honey 121 



" " Home-made 125 



" " No-drip ." 125 



" of Strawboard 126.12s 



■' " with Comb Honey 107 



" Case with Corrugated Paper 127 



" Crates for Comb honey 129 



Shortcake, Recipe for 260 



Short Plan of Transferring 443 



Shook-swarming Method, Doolittle 436 



" Swarms 443 



Showcase for Honey 129 



Silex . 



.383 



Simmins' Method of Introducing 290 



Simplicity Feeders 2ti0 



Single-tier Wide Frames 103 



Size of Drone and Worker Comb 263 



Size of Winter Entrances for Bees 485 



Sizes of Hives 249 



" of fc-hipping-cases for Honey 125 



Skep 392 



Skeps of Stiaw 392, 393 



Skunks as Enemies of Bees 152 



Slant of Cells 262 



Slate Tablets for Keeping Records 372 



Small Bee-keepers and Self-spacing Frames 210 



" Swarms 3 



Smoke and Stings 413 



" " Smokers ... 393 



Smoker, Abuses of 397 



" Fuel 396 



" House for Smokers 397 



to Use 397 



" Bingham 394 



Smothering Bees by Closing the Entrance 454 



•' of Bees, Prevention of 309 



Smokers, Cold-blast 395 



to Clean 398 



Root 394 



Soft Candy, European 82 



'■ Honey Cake 2 9 



Soiled Sections t 123 



Solar Wax-extractor 469 



Somerford's Method of Making Nuclei 315 



Sourwood 4C0 



South American Bees 65 



Spacing Combs for Extracted Honey 188 



Devices 208 



" Frames 400 



Spanish Needle 401 



Special Hive for Swarm Control 438 



Special Repositories for Bees 487 



Spiders, Enemies of Bees 152 



Spiracles 12 



Spraying at the Wrong Time 223-2-'5 



Spreading Brood 40'-' 



Spring Dwindling Outdoors 496 



Spring Management 403 



•* Cleaning Entrances 404 



" " Colonies with Dysentery — 403 



" " Equalizing Stores 403 



'• " Uniting Outdoor Bees 4(4 



" " Protecting Colonies when 



FirstSetout 403 



Spraying during Bloom Destructive to Bees ^^83 



Spy-glass for Uee-hunting 41 



Square Cans vs. Barrels 36 



" Sections vs. Tall 119 



Stacking Alfalfa 6 



stages of Natural Queen ci Us 360 



Standard Sizes of Shipi ing-cases 125 



Stands for Hives 23 



Staple-spaced Frames 208 



Starved Brood 141 



Steam Uncapping-knives 188 



Steam Wax-presses 462 



Stewarton Hive 254 



Stimulative Feeding 199 



Stinging, how Performed 412 



Sting, Scientific Account of 414 



