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INDEX 



Retail markets, 274 

 Returns from beekeeping, 12 

 Rhododendron, 81 

 Robber fly, 225 

 Rosin weed, G5 



Sacbrood, 221 



Sage, 77 



Sale of honey, laws concerning, 2!t(; 



Saw palmetto, 77 



Seasons management, 14!) 



Sections, for comb honey, 138 



removing from super, 163 

 Sentinels at entrance, 4 

 Separators, 141 

 Shade, value of, 30 

 Shipment, of queens, 296 



restrictions of, 295 

 Shipping cases, for comb honey, 261 



for extracted honey, 263 

 Signs, 270, 271 

 Simpson's honey plant, 78 

 Situations for keeping bees, 11 

 Skunks, 224 

 Smartweed, 74 

 Smoke, use of, 5 

 Smoker, 22, 23 

 Smoker fuel, 22 

 Snakefeeders, 224 

 Sneezeweed, 81 

 Snow-on-the-Mountain, 81 

 Solar wax extractors, 200 

 South, honey plants of, 49 

 Space under brood nest as swarm 



prevention, 160 

 Spacing hives, 38 

 Spiders, 225 

 Split sections, 144 

 Spotting clothes, 284 

 Spraying when in full bloom, 291 

 Starters, putting in,' 147 

 Starved brood, 222 

 Starwort, 69 

 Steam press, 203 

 Sting, 2 



Strong colonies, important, 83 

 Sunflowers, 63 

 Super springs, 148 



Supers, enticing bees into, 151 



putting on, 184 

 S'upplyinig empty combs, 110 

 Swarm control, 15() 



Demaree method of, 185 

 Swarming, 100 

 Tools for apiarv, 20 

 Transferring, 32, 33, 34 

 Trembles, caused by boneset, 72 

 Trouble, causes of, 284 

 Truck crops, 57 



Uncapping boxes, 170 

 knives, 173 



Veil, 20, 21 



Ventilation, of hives, 30, 186 



Walnut, source of pollen, 80 

 Watering devices, 41, 42 



places, bees at, 284 

 Water, method of inti'oducing queeuB 

 117 



need of, 41, 238 

 Wax, adulteration of, 199 



bleaching, 204 



cooling, 205 



moths, 225 



fumigation for, 163 



press, 203 



production of, 195 



rendering, 200 



substitutes for, 190 



uses of, 198 

 Weak colonies, care of, 154 

 White snakeroot, 70 

 Whitewood, 60 

 Wild bergamot, 74 

 Wild cucumber, 79 

 Willow, 52, 74 



Wintering, avoid failing queens in, 

 236 



best feed for, 235 



essentials of successful, 234 



influence of the queen in, 236 



methods of, 239-256 



protection from winds, 237 

 Wiring frames, 181 

 Worker bees, 92 



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