INDEX. 



Medium Hives vs. Large 



Hives, 235 

 Miiigling of Races, 188 

 Mixed Oviposition, 31 

 Mixing Black and Italian 



Bees, 138 

 Modes of Swarming, 197 

 Modified Bee-Hive, 199 

 Mothworms, 235 

 Motion of the Larvoe, 4G9 

 Mullen Stock Bee-bob, 168 

 Multiplication of Stock, 203, 



218 

 Natural Swarming, 82 

 Natural Swarms, 202 

 Nomenclature of Swarms, 125 

 Normal Colony, 39 

 Origination of the Worker 



Bee, 225 

 Pan Tanging, G 

 Parasites of the Honey Bee, 



32, 114 

 Pasturage, 92 

 Patent Latent, 170 

 Phoro lucrassata, 176 

 Perspiration Otfensive, 14 

 Petrilied Bee-tree, 41 

 Pillage of Hives, 49 

 Poison of Bees, 180 

 Poisonous Honey, 14, 231 

 Pollen, 91, Analysis of, 136 

 Poor Districts or Poor Man- 

 agement, 207 

 Preparation for Spring, 109 

 Preparation for Winter, 109 

 Preservstion of Queens and 



Queens Cells, 79 

 Preservation of Surplus Comb, 



80 

 Prevention of Robbing, 205 



Primitive Bee-Hive, 31 

 Profits of Beeculture, 79 

 Propolis, 91 

 Pruning Stocks, 155 

 Pruning Stocks, 176 

 Purity of Italian Bees, 17, 58, 



119, 228 

 Quawking, 11 

 Query answered, 213 

 Queen Barren, 148 

 Queenlcssness 

 Queens, Introducing, 79 

 Queens, Two in a Hive, 40, 



48, 59, 92, 100, 227. 

 Queenlcssness, 121 

 Quelling Riots, 157 

 Questions for Consideration, 



165 

 Questions, String of, 197, 235, 



answered, 210 

 Raising Queens, 139 

 Range of Bee's Flight, (i, 34, 



178 

 Rearing and Saving Bees, 190 

 Regicidal Attacks on Queens, 



157 

 Robbing, 141 



Rules for Management, 47, 48 

 Senses of Bees, 63 

 Singular Hive, 39 

 Smoke for Bees, 227 

 Stings, 48 

 Store Stocks, 99 

 Statistics of Bees, 8, 38 

 Stinging Insects, 159 

 Straining Honey, 58, 138 

 Suffocation, 52 

 Superstition, 93 

 Surplus Honey, 177 

 Swarms, Extraordinary, 120 



Swarming, mode of, 197 

 Swarm Nomenclature. 125 

 SwarmSettling on theFace,21 7 

 Systemless Bce-Keeping, 216 

 Tallow Tree of Algeria. 127 

 Teeting, 11 



Temperature of the Hive. 159 

 Tenacity of Life, 188 

 The Old Bee, 227 

 The Wild Bee Tribe, 232 

 Transferring, 233 

 Treatment in February, 160 

 March, 180 

 " " " April, 200 

 " " " May, 220 

 Treatment of Stings, 23 

 Two Classes of Hives, 146 

 Two Queens in a Hive, 40, 48, 



59, 92, 100, 227 

 Unanimosity of Bees, 168, 185, 



206 

 Usurping Workers, 39 

 Value of Empty Combs, 120 

 Variations of Instinct, 231 

 Ventilating Hives, 146 

 Wars of Bees, 159 

 Wax Bleaching, 24 

 Wax Tree of Japan, 148 

 Weight of Bees, 19 

 What is it ? 106 

 What is the Matter? 118 

 Winter's supply, 116 

 Winter Feeding, 285 

 Wintering Bees, 55, 76, 195 

 Wintering Bees, 109, 232 

 Worker Brood from a Crip- 

 pled Queen, 182 

 Young Beesj Care of, 94 

 Young Queens with a First 

 Swarm, 59 



