TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



Chap. Page. 



I. The History and Physiology of the Bee .. 1 

 II. The Apiary 47 



III. The Bee-house 52 



IV. Pasturage 55 



V. Honey-dew 71 



VI. The Purchase of Bees 80 



VII. Bee-boxes 83 



VIII. Bee-hives 95 



IX. Comparative Advantages of Wooden 



Boxes and Straw Hives 100 



X. Leaf Hives 102 



XI. Dividers 107 



XII. Storifying 109 



XIII. Swarming 115 



XIV. Comparative Advantages of Storifying 



and Single-hiving 122 



XV. Symptoms which precede Swarming.... 127 



XVI. Hiving of Swarms 136 



XVII. On removing Bees from common Straw 



Hives to Storifying Hives or Boxes .. 148 

 XVIII. Super- and Nadir-hiving by means of 



Dividers 151 



XIX. Uniting Swarms or Stocks 154 



