INDEX 



ABC of Bee Culture, 207. 

 Abdomen, 187. 



After-swarms led by virgin queen, 

 81. 



prevention of, 81. 



reason of and remedy for, 79, 81. 

 Alder, 154. 

 Alfalfa, 201. 

 Alighting board, 15. 

 Alimentary canal, 187, 191, Plates 



XXV., XXVI. 

 Alley's queen and drone trap, 12. 

 Alsike, 200. 

 Anatomy, external, 181, Plate XXV. 



internal, 187, Plate XXVI. 

 Antenna cleaner, 186, Plate VIL 

 Antennas, 183, Plate VII. 

 Ants, 27. 

 Apiaries, floating, 209. 



out, 209. 

 Apiary, high fence for, in city, 23. 



in village garden, 22. 



location and arrangement of, 20. 



mowing the, 23. 



old-fashioned, Plate XXVII. 



old orchard good place for, 20. 



on city house tops, 22. 



sheep in, 23. 



windbreak for, 22. 

 Apparatus for extracting, Plate 



xvm. 



Apple, 196. 



Apple blossoms, Plate XVll. 



Apricot, 196. 



Aristotle, 172, 207. 



Artificial pasturage, 199. 



Bacillus alveu 176. 

 Balling of queen, 32, 158. 

 Basswood, 198. 



blossoms, frontispiece. 

 Bee, anatomy of, 18 1. 



books, 206. 



brush, Plate III. 



Brush, Dixie, 19. 



brush, use of, loi. 



cellars, for wintering, the Bing- 

 ham, 151. 



gloves, II, 17. 



glue, its source, 60, 61. 



glue made from varnish and 

 cement, 61. 



glue, various uses of, 62. 



house-keepers, 34. 



how she gathers pollen, 59. 



how she collects propolis, 62. 



ingratitude, 44. 



journals, 206. 



moth, 172. 



moth, development of, 173. 



moth, how to detect, 173. 



moth, maxims, 176. 



moth, remedy for, 174. 



tent, 102, 168. 



tree, 214. 



veil, II, 16. 



worker, 59. 



worker, brains of, 40. 



worker — life and habits of, 42, 43, 



worker, sex of, 39. 

 Bee-bread, 59. 



as food, 60. 



in cells, 98. 



