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INDEX. 



Stores, amount a colony of l)ees 



requires for winter, 5(5, 7+ 

 Storing honey combs, 41, 4S, 49 

 Straw skeps, see Skeps 

 Streptococcus ajAs, 81 

 Strong stocks indispensable when 



comb honey is desired, 42 

 Summer management of bees, 



69-72 

 Supers, how to clear the bees out 



of them, 41 



— must be kept very warmly 

 covered, 40 



— when and how to take them 

 off hives, 41 



— when to put them on hives, 40 

 Swarming, appearance of a hive 



before swarming, 9, 10 



— bees when swarming will not 

 sting unless hurt, 26 



— time of day when bees swarm, 

 10 



— time of year when it usuall}' 

 takes place, 9 



Swarms of bees, how to make 



them settle, 10, 26 

 how to hive them, 25, 26, 



54 

 how to return them to the 



parent hive, 44, 78, 79 



• " hunger swarms," 11 



second swarms and casts, 



10, 11, 53, 54 



treatment when hived, 53 



truant swarms, 54 



usually cluster in highest 



part of hives, 3 

 " Wells " hives, how to treat 



swarms from, 78, 79 

 Symptoms of foul brood, 81, 82 

 Syrian bees, 14, 21, 56 

 Syrio-Carniolan bees, 15 

 Syrup for feeding bees, how to 



make, 46 



— for rapid feeding, 56 



stimulative feeding, 52 



wax production, 46 



— medicated, 83, 84, 87, 92 



Tarsonemns Woodi, 89 

 Texas incubators, 105 

 Travelling, preparing l)ees for, 96, 

 97 



— boxes for bees, illustration of, 

 96 



— crate for sections, 42 



illustration of, 42 



Truant swarms, 54 



Uncapping honey, 47 



to stimulate brood rearing, 



52 



— knife, illustration of, 47 

 Uniting stocks of bees, how to do 



it, 42, 43, 73, 74 

 Unsealed brood, bees will not 

 desert it, 54 



Veils, see Bee-veils 

 Ventilation of beehives, 21, 93 



Wax, bees, see Beeswax 



— foundation, see Comb foun- 

 dation 



— how to extract from honey 

 combs, 48, 94 



— moth, how to preserve honej' 

 combs from, 41, 48, 49 



Wells' system of keeping two 

 queens in one hive, 7<>-79 



— dummy l)oard, 76, 77 

 Winter management of bees, 



75, 76 

 Wired frames, 27-29 



illustrations of, 29 



■ invalua])le for extracting, 27 



— — their great advantages, 27 

 Worker bees, age at which they 



first leave the hive, 5 



illustration of, 2 



longevity of, 5 



their natural historj^, 2-6 



Yucca brush, for removing bees 

 from honey combs, 46 



Zinc, queen-excluding, 37, 46 

 illustrations of, 38 



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