436 INDEX. 



Shelton, First Importer to California 37 



Signs of After-Swarming 237 



Signs Preceding First Swarm : 236 



Size of Hive 161 



Skunks Destroy Bees 105 



Slide, Front J 29 



Smith, A. P., Introduced Bees to Sacramento, 1855 39 



Smoke, Roll for 185 



Smoke Used to Obtain Honey 27 



Smoke Used to Tame Bees 122 



Spiders Destroy Bees 118 



Stands for Hives 184 



Stands, When Remove Swarms to 241 



Sting, Description of 72 



Sting, Remedy for 125 



Stingless Bees 401 



Stingless Bees Brought to California 405 



Stock, Choice of 161 



Storifying Hive 156 



Straining Honey from Combs 206 



Straight Combs Desirable 279 



Straight Combs, How to Make 280 



Straw Hives 135 



Streets Between Combe 278 



Substitute for Pollen, Rye Meal 213 



Sugar for Food 302 



Suggestions to Honey Consumers 417 



Sulphur Used to Kill Bees 27 



Sumach as Pasture 175 



Supplying Queens, Precaution in . 411 



Swarms, Difference in 164 



Swarms, Time of Emerging Limited 49 



Suspended Frames Objectionable 33 



Swarm, After-Signs of 237 



Swarm-Basket, How Built 247 



Swarm, Description of 238 



Swarm, Net 248 



Swarming, Cause of 233 



Swarming, Conditions Requisite to 235 



Swarming, Forced, How Effected 253 



Swarming, Forced, First Practiced by Germans 253 



Swarming, Forced, Formation of Colonies Preferable to 256 



Swarming, Forced, When Successful 254 



Swarming, How Regulated 196 



Swarming, Natural, Period of 235 



Swarming Out, Cause of 41 



Swarming Out, Remedy for 42 



Swarming, Season of, When Past 236 



Swarming, Signs Preceding First 236 



Swarms, The Number of Regulated 242 



Swarms, When to Remove 241 



Sycamore as Pasture 170 



