X CONTENTS. 



Chapter V. 

 HOW TO ]\rAKE A START IN BEE-KEEPING 



What to Buy — How to Hive a Swarm — Comb-Foundation — Why 

 Foundation is Used — How to fix Foundation in Frames 

 — Wiring Foundation into Frames . . pp. 24 — 29 



Chapter VL 



MANIPULATING BEES. 



What to do when Stung — Bee Veils — Gloves — Gorging the Bees- 

 Smoking — How to Manipulate — Manipulating a Full Hive- 

 Quieting Bees with Carbolic Acid . , . pp. 30 — 34 



Chapter VII. 

 THE PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 



Sections — Section Crates — Frames of Sections— Dividers— When to 

 Super — Raising the Super — Taking off the Super — Packing 

 Sections — Strong Stocks Indispensable — How to Unite — How 

 to find the Queen— Swarming pp. 35—44 



Chapter VI II. 

 THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 



How to Produce Combs — Doubling— Extracting — The Extractor 

 — Storing Combs in Winter — Ripening and Bottling — Shallow 

 Frames— Heather Honey pp. 45 — 50 



Chapter IX. 

 THE PROFITABLE PRODUCTION OF BEES. 



Natural Methods of Increase — Stimulative Feeding— Spreading the 

 Brood — Truant Swarms — Building up the Stocks — Profit and 

 Loss — Begin with One Stock — Artificial Methods of Increase 

 — Give the Bees Plenty of Room— Queen-raising — Forming 

 Nuclei— Fixing the Queen Cells — Breed Queens from the Best 

 Stock in the Apiary — Building up the Nuclei — Profit and 

 Loss — Economy [)p. 51— 66 



