428 INDEX. 



Condition of Comb Important ................................ 281 



Condition Requiring Feeding ................................ 300 



Condition Requisite to Swarming ............................. 235 



Condition Suited to Wintering ............................... 343 



Conquered Colony, How to Save ............................. 316 



Contents, Table of ... ....................................... 3 



Course to Hive Readily Learned ............................. 75 



Culturist, California, Extract from ........................... 383 



Damaged Comb to be Removed ...... . ......... . ............. 288 



December, Monthly Management for, in Cold Climate ......... 377 



December, Monthly Management for, in warm Climate ........ 365 



Description of Swarm ....................................... 238 



Deserting, Period, Cause and Remedy of ..................... 244 



Destroying Bees to Cure Foul Brood ......................... 97 



Detect Robbery, How to .................................... 314 



Development, Retarded or Accelerated by the Temperature ---- 61 



Difference in Swarms ........................................ 164 



Different Families of Bees Uniting ........................... 412 



Disease, Beware of ...................... ................... 164 



Dividing Hive .............................................. 139 



Division, Primary ..... ^ ..................................... 262 



Division, Primary, Time of Day for .......................... 265 



Driving, Direction for ....................................... 99 



Drivingto Eradicate Foul Brood ............................. 98 



Drone ...................................................... 47 



Drone, Description and Use of ............................... 69 



Drone Killed by Workers .................................... 70 



Drone-Laying Queen ........................................ 64 



Drone-Laying Queen to be Destroyed ........................ 65 



Drone Retained over Winter ................................. 70 



Drone, White-headed ....................................... 71 



Drought in 1854 ............................................. 30 



Dry Room for Honey ....................................... 202 



Dysentery, Cause of ........................................ 83 



Dysentery, How to prevent ........ .......................... 84 



Dysentery, How to Remedy ..... . ........................... 85 



Dysentery, Symptoms of .................................... 83 



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Eggs, Hatching of ................................... .. ..... - - 56 



Eggs, How Vivified ......................................... 53 



Eggs, Laying of ............................................ 56 



Eggs, Material of ........................................... 57 



Eggs, Sex of. ............................................... 55 



Eggs, Shape of .............................................. 57 



Emerging of Young Bees .................................... 62 



Enemies ................................................... 105 



Essay, Introductory ......................................... 11 



Examinations to Detect Foul Brood .......................... 97 



Excitement Dangerous ...................................... 366 



Experience in Bee-Keeping .................................. 27 



Exposure of Hive to Extreme Heat or Cold to be Deprecated.. 281 



