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INDEX. 



Bees and Bee culture 



Of Hives and sections 1 142 



Langstroth hives 1142 



Sections 1147 



Frames and crates 1147 



Location of an Apiary 1148 



Transferring 1149 



Feeding and feeders 1150 



Queen-rearing 1152 



Clipping the queen's wings 1155 



Fertile workers 1 155 



Uniting colonies 1156 



Hiving a colony 1 157 



To prevent swarming 1157 



How to Italianize 1158 



To introduce a queen 1158 



Shipping cage 1159 



Shipping queens 1159 



The Good candy for food 1159 



Shipping bees 1160 



Extracting Honey 1160 



Handling bees 1161 



Smoking bees i 162 



Comb foundation 1162 



Save the wax 1163 



Marketing honey 1 1 64 



Honey plants 1 1 64 



Do bees attack grapes? 1166 



To winter bees 1167 



Spring dwindling 1169 



Diseases of Bees 1169 



Dysentery 1169 



Foul Brood 1169 



Enemies of Bees 1170 



Beef-rack 416 



Beetles, Blister 340 



Beetle, Colorado Potato 317 



History 317 



Permanence 318 



Remedies against 319 



Enemies of 321 



Beetle, The May 324 



Beets... . 296 



Beets and Mangold-wurzels 250 



Soil, cultivation, and gathering 250 

 Binding corn-fodder with rye- 

 straw 160 



Blackberries 278 



Blue-grass 120 



Bommer's method with manures. 81 



Bone-meal 111,85 



Bonus given for good work 30 



Borer, Apple-tree 343 



Flat-headed 345 



Twig 347 



Borer, Currant 358 



Borer, Peach 354 



Bran as a manure 83 



Broom-corn 194 



Va rieties 195 



Soil best adapted to it 196 



Planting seed, and how much.. 196 



Harvesting 197 



Curing 198 



Preparing for market 199 



Broom-corn scraper 409 



Brooms, Making 199 



Buckwheat 200 



Buckwheat as a green manure ... 91 



Building Associations 377 



Bushel Box 418 



Butter and Butter-making (see 



Dairy) 850 



Butting Preventer 423 



CABBAGES 296 



Varieties 297 



Early plants 297 



Cabbage insects 298 



Storing cabbages 298 



Cabbage Moths 337 



Cabbage Fly 338 



Cabbage Leaf-roller 335 



Cabbage-worm 334 



Canker-worm 347 



Capital in farming 28 



