INDEX 



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Albino bees 13 



Alley nursery cage 44 



Alley plan of queen rearing 49 



American bees. 10 



Apis dorsata.. 9 



Apis florea 9 



Apis Indica 10 



Apis mellifica .10 



Artificial cells 60 



Baby nuclei 35 81 



Banat bees 16 



Benton queen cage 44 87 



Black bees .....10 1 1 



Breeder, good traits of 25 



Breeding, to improve stock 23 



Cages 424487 



Cage method of introducing 94 



Caging queens 88 



Candy 87 



Case method of queen rearing 57 



Carniolan bees 15 



Cell block 5578 



Cell protectors.- 79 



Cells care of... 77 



Cells artificial 60 



Cells preparation for.. 63 



Cells starting 71 



Cyprian bees 12 



Caucasian bees 16 



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Direct methods 96 



Flour method 98 



Smoke method 96 



Water method... 98 



Italian bees 1 113 



Mating: 



In confinement 28 



Artificial 28 



In greenhouses 29 



Mating hives 33 38 



Mating-hives, stocking. 81 



Miller method of queen rearing 55 



Nuclei 3335 



Formation of 80 



Baby..._ 3581 



Nursery cages 42 44 



Parthenogenesis 29 



Present day methods of queen reaiing 53 



Punic bees 17 



Queen, life of 19 



Queen rearing 



in nature 21 



early methods of 47 



equipment for 31 



Alley plan of 49 



Davis plan of 53 



Case method of 57 



Hopkins method 57 



Doolittle method 60 



Miller method 55 



Davis plan of queen rearing 53 



Davis mating hives 38 40 41 



Direct introduction of queens.. 96 Present day methods 53 



Disease, spread from queen yards 101 Quinby's method ..48 



Doolittle method of queen rearing 60 In queenright colonies 75 



Drones 20 Races of bees 9 



Drones control of 26 Albinos._ 13 



Banats 16 



Early methods of queen rearing 31 Blacks... 10 1 1 



Egyptian bees 17 Carniolans 15 



Equipment for queen rearing 47 Caucasians ..16 



Cyprians 12 



Feeders 41 Egyptians 17 



Feeding .....76 Goldens 15 26 



Flour method of introducing queens 98 Germans.... 10 1 1 



Gentle stock for breeders. 25 Holylands..._ 13 



German bees 101 1 Italians.- 1113 



Giant bees of India 9 Punic .. _ . . 17 



Golden bees 1526 Syrians. 13 



Grading queens 89 Tunisan 17 



Grafting 6566 Rauchfusscage.... 44 



Grafting house. 31 Rauchfuss mating hi/e 34 



Grafting in drone comb 53 Royal jelly 63 



Grafting tools 66 



Shipping cages 44 



Holy land bees 13 Shipping queens 87 



Honey method of introducing queens.. 98 Stocking mating-hi ves .81 



Hopkins method of queen rearing 57 Swarm box _ 40 74 



Hybrid bees 11 



Transferring larvae 65 



Increase, combined with mating 83 



Introduction of queens 93 Virginqueens 90 



Cage method 94 introducing _ 98 



