vi. Contents. 



CHAPTER XX.— RE QUEENING. 



Change necessary — Throw-backs — Mating haphazard — Parentage Page, 

 known by progeny — Life of queen, drone, worker — Early 

 stage of queen to lay — Queen's procreative powers subsiding 

 — Workers' love diminishes — Various ways of re-queening — 

 Caging new queen — Bee-candy — Grafting cells — Chloro- 

 forming — Why not always accepted . . . . . . . . 117-121 



CHAPTER XXI.— TRANSFERRING. 



Maxim — Subduing — Drumming — Manipiilating — Like begets like 

 — Confidence required — Charging the smoker — Virgil's 

 method — Description of illustration from figure 1 to figure 9 122-131 



CHAPTER XXII.— THE HISTORICAL BEE-HIVE— ITS 

 EVOLUTION. 



Amateur apiarists — Artificial bee-homes — Bible references — 

 India, Egypt, Japanese sun-dried clay-hives — Early experi- 

 mentors in hive construction — Various styles of hives — 

 Early germ in bar frame.s — Huber's discoveries — Dzierzon's 

 top-bar — Langstroth movable frame — Evolution of bar 

 frames — Nearing perfection — Value of the bar frame — Spac- 

 ing — Fixing foundation comb — Correct spacing by bees — - 

 Bees and natural comb building — Bar frame, rise and pro- 

 gress — Shape and size — Storing honey — Brace combs — 

 Attachment of comb to frame — Dimensions — Natural heat 

 required — Nature's bee space — Shallows — British Association 

 — Various improvements — Summary of hives — Machine 

 made hives — Hoffman's metal ends — Narrow bottom bar — 

 Antipropolising inventions — Langstroth's 61 reasons for his 

 perfect hive — Materials— Convex and concave bevels, advan- 

 tages of guide for measurements — Bee-space — Quantity of 

 timber required — Iron guages — Heddon's measurement of — 

 Other hives — Langstroth's simplicity, measurement of . . 132-138- 



CHAPTER XXIII.— MOVABLE BOTTOM BOARDS FOR THE 

 LANGSTROTH SIMPLICITY HIVE. 



Measurements of V entrance No. 1 — Measurements of No. 2 — 

 Alighting board- — Measurements of roofs — Quilt — Full-size 

 bar frame measurement — Centre bar — Shallows — Division 

 boards — Frame blocks, measurements of — Description of 

 Shallows — Division boards — Frame block, measurements of 

 — Description of fig. 2 — Measurements of . . . . . . 139-150 



• CHAPTER XXIV.— CONCRETE FLOORS. 



Superior advantages of — Measurements — Description of dia- 



.rfanio . . . . 151-lo3 



