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INDEX 



Diseases of Bees — con. 



" Malignant and Infectious 



Dysentery " 141 



Symptoms and Remedy 14J 



Other Diseases 141 



Saving Healthy Brood ... 140 



To Prevent Swarming Out 139 

 Young Queens ... ... ... 140 



Doolittle Plan 



Drone Trap ... 

 Dysentery, Malignant and 

 fectious 

 Symptoms and Remedy 



Embedding Wire in Foundation 

 Enemies of Bees 



Ants 



Bee or Wax Moths 



Remedy 



Birds 



Extracting 



Extracting House ... 



Windows ... 



Fastening Foundation in Frames 



Feeders 



Feeding and Disinfecting 



in Queen Rearing 



Spring 



Stimulative 



Forming Nuclei 



Foul Brood in Australasia 



Symptoms of 



Treatment of 

 Frames, Broad Section 



Handling ... 



Mats for Covering 



Number of to Hive 



Numbering the 



Self-Spacing 



Shallow Extracting 



Fuel for Smokers ... 

 Fumigating Combs 



Gloves 80 



Grazing Stock, Question as to 161 



Hive, A Cheap Frame 59 



Cramp 58 



How to Open a 81 



Langstroth 48 



Number of Frames to ... 63 



Space, Contracting iii 



Hives ... ... ... ... ... 47 



Frames and Section Boxes 47 



Instructions for Making ... 49 



Nucleus 57 



Nucleus 100 



Observatory ... 57 



Painting ... ... ... ... 57 



Hiving 90 



Hiving by Catching Queen ... 91 



Honey 26 



Adulteration of 28 



Honey— cow. 



Bee and its Varieties 



Dew 



Liquefying Granulated 



Motor Power for Extracting 



Proportion Possibly Con- 

 sumed by Stock 



Quantity of, Furnished by 

 Pasture Land 



Ripening Extracted 



Strainers 



Supers, Surplus (Extracted 

 Honey) ... 



Surplus ... 



Taking the Last Surplus ... 



White Clover 



Honey Extractor - Extracting 



Appliances ... ... ... 7 



149 



Increase by Artificial Means ... 93 



Natural Swarming 86 



Increasing, Natural and Artificial 85 

 Inmates of the Hive : Their 



Natural History 10 



Introductory and Historical ... i 



Italianising 106 



Liquefying Granulated Honey ... 124 

 Location ... ... ... ... 39 



Markings of Pure Italians ... 8 



Mats for Covering Frames ... 63 



and Covers, Extra 132 



Natural Swarming, Increase by 86 



Nectar of Plants 158 



Superfluous 160 



" New Zealand Apiaries Act " 146 



Overstocking a District 46 



Parthenogenesis 18 



Pollen and Bee-bread 37 



Precautions 130 



Preparation for Swarms 87 



Preparing Colony for Cell Build- 

 ing 99 



Prevention of After-swarms ... 92 



Propolis 38 



Queen and Brood, Returning ... 99 

 Nurseries ... ... ... 102 



Reproductive Organs of ... 15 



Queens, Choice of Breeding ... 94 

 Emerging and Mating of ... loi 



Introducing ... 103 



Superseding 107 



Young 140 



Queen Cells, Raising 95 



Wood Bases for 108 



Queen-excluding Honey Boards 116 



Queen Rearing 94 



Feeding in 108 



Importance of 94 



Season for 97 



