Contents. rii. 



CHAPTER XXV— HAWKESBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



APIARY. 



1, General views— 2 shows floor, wire cradle, and sections — Page. 

 Various hives in use in college apiary — The kiosk — Removing 

 hives and bees to another sit^ . . . . 154-160' 



CHAPTER XXVI.— ADVANCE OF BEE-LIFE UNDER 

 DOMESTICATION. 



California — PLxtensive apiaries — Value of apparati — Honey har- 

 vests — N.S.W. National prizes a hobby — Ornamental apiaries 

 — As an article of diet — Some uses for honey . . . . 161-165 



CHAPTER XXVII.— APPLIANCES AND HOW TO USE THEM. 



How to manipulate — Protection — Bee veils — Bee gloves — Other 



protections lee-ieP' 



CHAPTER XXVIII. —CHARACTERISTIC SITES FOR AN APIARY. 



Make the most of it — Uses for honey — Will it pay.'' — Flower 

 culture — Gardening — AVill it pay? — Bees kept on house roof 

 — Bees at Agricultural Sliows 17n-17& 



CHAPTER XXIX.— HIVE ARRANGEMENTS. 



Success and failure — As a hobby — Semi-circular and straight 

 quincunx plan — Advantages of — Bush-house apiary — Its fit- 

 tings — Berlepsch hive preferable . . . . . . 176-181 



CHAPTER XXX.— EVOLUTION OF THE BEE-HIVE. 



Domestication — Nature's home — Clay-hives — Hollow logs — 

 Hives of the first bee-keepers^Wild honey — Early writers — 

 Destroying bees for the honey — Nutt's supernumary box — 

 The bar frame — Huber's book hive — Langstroth and Dzier- 

 zon — Bees working in the open — Spacing — Bar-frames — 

 Heddon frame, its measurements — Shallow frames — Quinby 

 and other types, measurements of — Bar frames in parts — 

 Langstroth frame, its measurements — Thick top bar — Hoff- 

 man ends — Narrow bottom bar — Guage for staplrs — Ready- 

 made bar-frames — Langstroth's 61 pros and cons — Materials 

 — Broo»l chaml>ep — Half-size super-roof — Quilt^s — FuU-size 

 frame, page 221, and for shallows — Dummy — Section cradle 

 — Sections — Half-size dummy — Section holder — Sections see 

 diagram, page 22S — (iale's wire cradle — Berlep.sch hive — 

 Hive in part.s — The frame — Description of observatory doors 

 — How arrangwl — The verandah — Advantages and other- 

 wise — The combination hive — Its advocates and its pros and 

 cons 182-234 



