j^ CONTENTS. 



PACE 



Chapter XXI—Hiving: Uniting and Transferring Bees 130 

 Confidenoe in protection from stings, 231. Preparing the hiv«, Z32. 

 Hivins swarms direct, 233. Swarms in high trees, 284. Swarm- 

 in awkward places, 236. Hiyine from a skep, 236. Secure all the 

 cluster, 237. Sweetening the hiving skep, 238. Hiving by caging, 

 239 Hiving a swarm on the old stand, 240. Heddon method, 241. 

 Returning swarms, 242, Retracing swarms, 243. Yi"''^^T u^*'' 

 244 Uniting swarms, 248. Uniting two stocks, 246. '-'"'''"S 

 queenless bees to a stock, 247. Uniting a swarm to a stock, 248. 

 Uniting driven bees, 249. Uniting driven bees to a stock, ZSJ). 

 Tranaiasring bees, 261. Transferring from hive to hive, 282. 

 Transferring from skep to modern hive, 253. Automatic transfer 

 from 8k«p, or box, to modern hive, 2i34. Heddon method of 

 transfer, 294b. Separating swarms, 2B4o. 



Chapter XXII.— Surplus Honey ... ... ... 13Q 



Preparing in time, 255. Extracted honey more profitable than comb 

 honey, 286. Preparing oratea and sections, 267. Three-split 

 sections, 258. Split top sections, 259. Unsplit sections, 260. Pre- 

 paring frames, 261. Wiring frames, 262. Fixing foundation in 

 frames, 263. Three " Donts," 264. The honey flow, 265. 

 Putting on crates, 266. Putting on super boxes, 267. Use of 

 excluders, 268. Tiering orates, 269. Doubling and storifying, 270. 

 Snpering skeps, 271. Removing supers, 272. Use of oone escapes, 

 273. Super clearer, 274. Use of super clearer, 275. 



Chapter XXIII. — Extracting Honey ... ... ... I54 



Extracting, 276. Straining and ripening, 277. Cleaning extracted 

 combs, 278. 



Chapter XXIV.— Extracting Wax ... ... ... I57 



Use of wax extractors, 279. Extracting by boiling, 280. 



Chapter XXV. — Queen Rearing and Introduction ... 158 



Old queens, 281. Deferotive queens. 282. Queenlessness, 283. Signs 

 of queenlessness, 284. Nucleus hives, 285. Queen rearing, 286. 

 Using a swarmed stock, 287. Returned swarm method, 288. 

 Using an unswarmed stock, 289. Forming nuclei, 290. Inserting 

 queen cells, 291. Management of nuclei, 292. Using two stocks, 

 293. Distributing the nuclei, 294. Queen introduction, "295. 

 Balling the queen, 296. Use of queen cages, 297. Introduction by 

 artificial swarming, 298. Direct introduction, 299. Sending 

 queens per post, 300. Queen rearing on a large scale, 300b. 



Chapter XXVI.— Marketing Honey ... ... ... 169 



Home honey, 301. Storing honey, 302. Preparing comb honey for 

 market, 303. Glazing sections, 304. Packing sections for tract- 

 port, 305. Preparing and packing extracted honey for market, 30€ 



Chapter XXVII. — Robbing and Fighting ... ... I75 



Robbing, 307. Precautions, 308. Signs of robbing, 309. Treat- 

 ment, 310. 



