INDEX. 



Acarine disease, .see Isle of Wight 



Bee- Disease 

 Africa, bee-keeping in, 114 

 Agriculture, the importance of 



bee-keeping to agriculture, vi, 



69-76 

 Alighting-boards of hives, 18 

 — illustrations of, 18, 23, 



78 

 American Bee Journals, 113 

 Ants, how to guard against, 114, 



115 

 Apis mellifica, 1 

 April, a good month to start 



bee-keeping, 24 

 Artificial methods of increasing 



the number of stocks of bees, 



58-66, 101-111 



— pollen, 67, 68 

 Australasia, bee-keeping in, 1 14 

 Australasian Bee- Keeper, The, 



113 

 Autumn management of bees, 

 72-75 



Baby nuclei, 101-111 



must always be fed, 107 



— nucleus hive, illustration of, 

 106 



Bacillus alvei 81 



— biirri, 81 



— larv<e, 81 



— pluton, 81 

 Bar-frames, see Frames 



— frame hives, 16, 111 

 illustrations of, 17-20, 



23, 62, 110, 112, 113 

 Bean honey, 69 



Bee gloves, see Gloves 



Beehives, see Skeps, Bar-frame 



hives, and Baby nucleus hives 

 Bee- Keepers' Record, The, 76 

 Bee stings, see Stings 

 Bee-veils, 31 



illustration of, 31 



Bees leaving nuclei in too great 



numbers, how to prevent, 61, 



104 

 Beeswax, amount of honej^ 



consumed in secreting 1 lb. , 27, 



— how it is secreted by the bees 

 27, 28 



— how to heat it, 28 



— loss of time in secreting it, 

 27, 28 



Beet sugar unsuitable for bees, 94 

 Body box of beehive, 19 



— illustrations of, 19, 23 



Books on bees, 8, 56, 76, 77, 97 

 Bottling honey, 49 

 Breeding, time of j'^ear when it 

 begins, 9 



— bees for profit, 51-66, 101-111 

 British Bee Journal, The, 76 

 Broad shouldered fi^ames, 18 

 Brood, chilled, 53, 55, 82 



— foul, see Foul brood 

 Building up. stocks and nuclei, 



54, 55, 64, 108, 109 



Cages, for queens, see Queen 



cages 

 Camphor will keep away the 



wax moth, 41 

 Canadian bee feeder, illustration 



of, 57 



