List of Illustbations. 



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Hive and section cradle filled with sections 



A Bee Farm 



Hive Arrangements 



Bush-hoiise Apiary 



Summer Shelter 



Colony of bees on Geebung plant . . 



Shallow Frame 



Frame Angles (thick top bar) 



Measurement of Frame (new comb) . . 



Self-spacing thick top bar 



Staple Gauge 



Langstroth's Hive and its Fittings 



Cradles for sections 



Section 



Wire Section Cradle (Gale's) 



Berlepsch Hive and Frame 



Foundation Comb 



Honey Extractor (Novice's) 



Sm«ker (Pender's) 



Uncapping Knife 



Solar Extractor 



Bee-Wintering 



Abdomen of worker showing wax pockets and wax scales 



Essential or sexual organs of a blossom 



An open blossom showing the organs and floral envelope 



A deformed apple 



Bee in the act of fertilising 



Bee sting in sections 



Fig. I. showing the combination of the floral envelope 



Fig. II., Stigma, anthers, stamens, &c. 



Brood-combs, and developing brood 



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