10 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XX. 



BEES AND BEE CULTURE. 



Agricultural Journals. Hindrances to the Culture of Bees. Requisites to Suc- 

 cess. Natural History of Bees. The Queen. Drones. Worker Bee. Races of 

 Bees. Products. Practical Bee-keeping : Hives, Frames, and Crates. Location 

 of Apiary. Transferring Bees. Feeding. Queen Rearing. Clipping the Queen's 

 Wings. Fertile Workers. Uniting Colonies. Increasing the Number of Colonies. - 

 Hiving. To prevent Swarming. How to Italianize. To Introduce a Queen. 

 Shipping Queens. The Good Candy. Shipping Bees. Extracting Honey, and the 

 Extractor. Handling Bees. Comb Foundation. Save the Wax. Marketing 

 Honey. Honey Plants. Wintering Bees. Spring Dwindling. Diseases of Bees. 

 Enemies of Bees, Pages 1133-1170 



CHAPTER XXI. 



THE CHEMISTRY OF FOODS AND FEEDING 



Composition of the Animal Body. Foods. Use of Food. Use of Different 

 Food Constituents. Different Foods. Digestibility of Foods. Albuminoid 

 Ratio. Influence of Water in Foods. Feeding. Reducing the Food of Support. 

 Increasing the Amount of Food Supplied. Proper Adjustment of Food. Ratio 

 for Young Animals. Ratio for Milk. Fattening Animals. Feeding as influenced 

 by Age. Profitable Feeding, 1171-1192 



CHAPTER XXII. 



THE BARN AND BARN- YARD. 



Careful Thought and Planning necessary. Plan for a Tasty and Convenient 

 Barn. A Bank Barn. Cheap Barn and Barracks. Lumber Required. Cost. 

 Approaches. Sheds and Racks. Rack for Stacking. The Barn-yard. Manure 

 Ditch. Cow-stable. Slatted Floor. Stanchions, 1193-1202 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 AGRICULTURAL APHORISMS, 1203-1211 



Appendix. Principal Cereals in the U. S. Number of Live-stock in the United 

 States. Total Cotton Production, and average Product per acre. Highest and 

 Lowest price of Cotton for 42 years. Tobacco Production in all the States. State- 

 ment of the Tobacco Crop of the United States. Census of the United States. 

 Acreage and Value of Crops of Principal Cereals in the United States. Average 

 Cash Value of Farm Crops. Sugar Product of Louisiana for 48 years. Area of the 

 States and Territories of the United States. Relative Number of Plants or Hills to 

 an Acre. Area occupied by the Principal Crops of the United States. Duration 

 of Animal Life. Weight of a Bushel of Produce. Interest Laws of the United 

 States. Compound Interest Table. Classification of Soils. Comparison of Meas- 

 ures of Capacity. Measures of an Acre Plot.-- -Square Feet and Feet Square in 

 Fractions of an Acre. To Measure Cisterns and Casks. To Measure Land. Meas- 

 urement of Hay. To Measure Corn. Measurement of Wood and Lumber. Quan- 

 tity of Seed or Plants required per Acre, 1213-1225 



INDEX, 1227-1244 



