Xii ILLUSTRATIONS 



PIO. PAOS 



34. Blossom, Seed Pod and Leaf of Partridge Pea 68 



35. Aster Honey Makes Poor Winter Stores ... 70 



36. Boneset or White Snakeroot 71 



37. Masses of White Snakeroot in the Author's Wild Garden 72 



38. Two Species of Heartsease or Smartweed 73 



39. The Horsemints are Valuable over a Large Scope of Country 75 



40. Catnip Yields Honey Abundantly 76 



4L Figwort or Simpson's Honey Plant 76 



42. The Rocky Mountain Bee Plant is a Valuable Honey P*roducer in 



Colorado 77 



43. Blossoms of the Button Bush 78 



44. Buckwheat in Bloom 79 



45. Where Sufficiently Abundant, the Wild Cucumber is Valuable 80 



46. Queen Laying in a Newly Made Comb 89 



47. Natural-Built Queen Cells 90 



48. Worker Bees on the Comb 92 



49. Drones 95 



50. Combs Showing Queen Cells and Capped Drone and Worker Brood. 96 

 5L Hiving Swarm in Straw Skep in Europe 103 



52. A Market Basket Swarm Catcher 105 



53. A Newly Hived Swarm 105 



64. Swarm Caught in a Sack, Running into the Hive 105 



55. Nuclei in Queen- Rearing Apiary 109 



56. Miller Queen Cage 114 



57. Benton Queen Cage 114 



58. Queen Cells by the Alley Plan 125 



59. Feeding with Friction, Top Pails in Empty Super 132 



60. The Miller Feeder '. 132 



61. Tin Pan Feeder in Super 133 



62. The Doolittle Division Board Feeder 134 



63. Metal Feeder After the Alexander Idea 134 



64. The Alexander Wood Feeder 135 



65. With This Entrance Feeder One Can See at a Glance How Much 



Feed Remains to be Taken 135 



66. Parts of a Comb Honey Hive 138 



67. Strong Colonies for Comb Honey Production 139 



68. Comb Honey Supers 140 



69. Comb Honey Super Dissected 140 



70. Sections for Comb Honey 141 



71. Separators for Bee- Way Sections 142 



72. Fence for Plain Sections 143 



