LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATE I. Bass wood blossom . . Frontispiece 

 Observation hives . . . Page 2 



PLATE II. (a) Two flat section boxes FACING PAGK 

 (6) Corneil smoker .... 14 



PLATE III. (a) Dixie bee-brush, spur wire- 

 embedder and Van Deusen wax-tube 

 fastener. (6) A super with fences, (c) 

 The Porter bee-escape in a honey-board 15 



PLATE IV. Hives well shaded by a tree . 26 



PLATE V. (a) Queen; drone; worker. 



(6) Queen cell, (c) Miller's queen in- 

 troducing cage ..... 27 



PLATE VI. Head of drone; head of queen; 

 head of worker; ventral surface of 

 worker showing plates of wax . . 30 



PLATE VII. Legs and antennae of the honey- 

 bee 31 



PLATE VIII. Drone cells in a comb of honey. 50 



PLATE IX. Side of hive removed showing 



the bees at work . . . .51 



PLATE X. Bees hanging in a curtain secret- 

 ing wax ...... 62 



PLATE XI. Hiving bees; cutting down a 



swarm . . 63 



