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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Bee Pasturage. — Honey - producing 

 trees, plants or shrubs ; improperly 

 called artificial pasturage. 



Beeswax.— A substance made by bees 

 for building comb. 



Broad Frame.— A wide frame for 

 holding sections. 



Brood.— Larvae in all stages. 



Brood Combs.— Combs used for breed- 

 ing purposes. 



Cases.— Wide frames to bold sections 

 for surplus honey. 



Cells.— Hexagonal birth-place of bees 

 and depositories for honey. 



Chaif Hives.— Double-walled boxes, 

 filled in with chaff, for bees, both in 

 summer and winter. 



Cluster of Bees.— A festoon of bees 

 clinging to one another. 



Comb Basket.— A basket to hold combs 

 in a honey extractor. 



Comb Foundation.- Sheets of wax on 

 which the base of cells have been 

 imprinted by a machine, mill or 

 press. Improperly called artificial 

 comb. 



Comb Guide.— Small pieces of comb 

 foundation, to guide the bees in 

 building combs in frames or sections. 



Comb Honey.— Honey in tlie comb. 



Cushion.— A bag filled with chaff or 

 something porous, to be placed over 

 or at the sides of the frames in cold 

 weather. 



Cyprian Bees.— Bees from the Island 

 of Cyprus. 



Dividing.— A method of increase by 

 dividing two or more colonies. 



Division Board.— Used for contracting 

 the brood-chamber of the hive. 



Drones.— Male bees. 



Driving Bees.— Drumming on the out- 

 side of a box hive, to drive the bees 

 up into an empty box on top. 



Entrance.— A passage way for the bees 

 to enter the hive. 



Entrance Blocks.— Used for contract- 

 ing the entrance. 



Extracted Honey.— Honey taken from 

 the combs by centrifugal force. Im- 

 properly called strained honey, which 

 was obiained by mashing up the 

 combs and straining through cloth. 



Granulated Honey.— Honey formed 

 into grains. Improperly called can- 

 died and crystalized honey. 



Hatching Brood.— That just emerging 

 from the cells. 



Honey.— Nectar gathered by bees 

 from flowers. 



Honey Board.— A board or slats used 

 over the frames, to support the sur- 

 plus receptacles. 



Honey Extractor.— For extracting 

 honey from the combs by centri- 

 fugal force. 



Honey Gate.— A faucet for drawing 

 honey from the extractor. 



Honey House.— A place for storing 

 and extracting honey, etc. 



Honey Knife.— Used for uncapping 

 the cells, before extracting. 



House Apiary.— A building having 

 double-walls, in which to keep sev- 

 eral colonies of bees. 



Hybrids.— A cross between two species 

 of bees. 



Italian Bees.— Bees from Italy. Some- 

 times called Ligurian, because they 

 were imported from Liguria. 



Introducing Queens. — Inserting a 

 strange queen in a colony. 



Lamp Nursery.— Used in rearing 

 queens. 



Larva and Pupa, (plirral, Lar^^se and 

 Fup8e).—Unsealed brood. The first 

 stage is the egg ; the second is the 

 larva; the third, the pupa; the 

 fourth, the imago, the last stage of 

 insect life. 



Laying Workers. — Those workers that 

 lay eggs, which produce drones. — 

 Improperly called fertile workers. 



Mandibles.— The bees' jaws. 



Manipulation.— The handling of bees. 



Metal Rabbets.— Strips of folded tin, 

 on which the frames rest. 



Movable Frames.— Frames enclosing 

 the breeding combs, by which they 

 can be handled. Improperly called 

 sash, slats, etc. 



Natural Swarm.— One that issues nat- 

 urally. 



Nucleus, (plural, Nuclei).— The foun- 

 dation for a colony, with a queen or 

 eggs from which to rear one, and one 

 or more frames of bees and brood. 



Nursing Bees.— Young bees whose 

 duty it is to care for the brood. 



Observation Hive.— Having a side or 

 sides of glass, for observing the 

 work of bees. 



Overstocking. — When there are more 

 bees in a locality than there is pas- 

 turage for their support. 



Piping of the Queen.— Notes of anger 

 produced by a queen, who is pre- 

 vented from killing her rivals, by 

 the bees who intend to swarm. 



Pollen.— The farina of fiowers, when 

 mixed with honey, the food of young 

 bees. 



Pollen Baskets.— A cavity on the hind 

 legs of the workers in which to carry 

 pollen. 



Propolis.— Bee glue, a resinous sub- 

 stance gathered from trees, etc., 

 and used by the bees in cementing 

 and filling up cracks, etc., in hives. 



Queen.— The mother of the colony. 



Queen Cage.— A cage used in shipping 

 or introducing queens. 



Queen Cells.— Large cells in which 



queens are reared. 

 Queenlessness. — Colonies having no 



queen. 

 Queen Rearing. — Rearing of queens. 



Improperly called raising queens. 

 Quilt.— A cloth covering for frames. 

 Rendering AVax.— Melting combs, and 



clarifying the wax. 

 Ripe Honey.— Honey that is ready to 



be capped. 

 Robbing.— Bees stealing stores from 



other colonies. 

 Royal Jelly.— Food of queen larvae. 

 Sections.— Small receptacles for sur- 

 plus honey in the comb. 

 Separators.— A strip of tin or wood, 



placed between sections, to insure 



straight combs. 

 Spring Dwindling.— Decimation of a 



colony of bees in spring. 

 Starters.— Small pieces of foundation 



or comb fastened to the top of sec- 

 tions, to induce the bees to work in 



them. 

 Sting.— The bees' weapon of defense. 



Drones have none. 

 Super.— A rack to hold sections on the 



hive. 

 Syrian Bees. — Those from Syria or 



Palestine. Improperly called "Holy 



Lands." 

 Tested Queen.— One whose progeny, 



when tested, is found to be pure. 

 Transferring.— A transfer of bees and 



combs from one hive to another. 

 Um-ipe or Green Honey.— Honey ex- 

 tracted before being capped, and not 



evaporated or ripened. 

 Untested Queens.— Those not tested 



for purity. Sometimes improperly 



called " dollar queens." 

 Virgin Queens.— Queens which have 



not been fertilized. 

 Warranted Queens.— Not tested, but 



guaranteed to be purely fertihzed. 

 Wax Extractor.— For rendering wax, 



by the aid of steam. 

 Wedding Flight.— An excursion of a 



virgiii queen to meet a drone. 

 Wide Frames,— Frames ;i inches wide, 



to hold sections at the side of the 



brood-chamber, or in the second 



story. 

 Wild Bees.— Those in the woods or 



rocks, etc. 

 Wind Breaks.— Hedges or fences to 



break the force of the wind upon the 



apiary. 

 Worker Eggs.— Eggs laid by a fertile 



queen, which may, at the pleasure 



of the bees, produce either workers 



or queens. 

 Workers.— Undeveloped females, who 



do the work of the hives. They are 



improperly called " neuters." 



