LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Continued 



FACING PAGB 



PLATE XII. (a) Two self-spacing frames. 

 (6) An empty super, (c) The Doolittle 

 division-board feeder ... .90 



PLATE XIII. Examining the brood-frames . 91 



PLATE XIV. (a) Alley's queen and drone 

 trap. (6) A well-filled section, (c) 

 One empty section holder, and one 

 filled with section boxes . . .106 



PLATE XV. One and a half story hive for 



comb honey . . . . .107 



PLATE XVI. Drone and Queen trap; queen 

 mailing and introducing cage; queen- 

 protector and queen-cage used in queen- 

 rearing, and bee-escape . . .110 



PLATE XVII. "In apple-blossom time" . Ill 



PLATE XVIII. (a) Taking off upper story of 

 hive containing combs for extracting. 

 (6) Extracting-room showing apparatus 

 for extracting honey . . . 122 



PLATE XIX. (a) Uncapping comb before 

 extracting the honey. (6) Placing un- 

 capped comb in one of the pockets of 

 the extractor 123 



PLATE XX. (a) Drawing honey from ex- 

 tractor. (6) Pouring extracted honey 

 into keg for shipping in bulk . . 126 



PLATE XXI. (a) Extracted honey in pails, 

 candied. (6) Extracted honey in glass 

 jars ready for market . . . .127 



PLATE XXII. Winter quarters in chaff-hives . 154 



