INDBZ. 



227 



CEsophagas, 23. 



OvaiieB of qneen and worken, 27, I 



Oviducis of queen, 27, 28, 



Tacking Lees tor transport, 84-87. 

 Packing honey — comb, 171 ; extracted, 



173. 

 Falpl, 17, 18, 26. 

 Faiagloasse, 18. 

 Paralysis, 186. 

 Parasites, 203. 

 Partlienogenesis, 11, 28. 

 Past and present, 76. 

 Pea flom, 111, 184b. 

 Pear, 223. 

 Petiole, 23. 



Petroleum jelly, 99, 100, 143. 

 Pickled brood, 188. 

 Pine, seasoned, tor hives, 44. 

 Pipe cover, queen cage, 167. 

 Planta, 19. 

 Pliny, 40. 

 Pollen, 3, 6, 33, 3S ; how gathered, 



19, 38 ; artificial. 111, 182. 

 Pollen mite, 203. 

 Poppy, 221, 223. 

 Porter beo escape, 1 52, 177, 

 FoI^tOk! masher, 74. 15S, _ 

 Prevention of Swarmibg, 124-126. 

 Profitable industry Bee-keeping a, 79. 

 Propolis, 3, 39 ; how gathered, 19, 39. 

 PulvillUB, 20. 

 Purchasing bees, 83. 

 Pyrus japonica, 221, 223. 



Queen, described, 2 ; length of life, 2, 

 12, 115 ; her fertilisation, 2, 25, 28 ; 

 egg-laying powers, 2, 4, 12, 28, 29, 

 108, 109 ; vugin queen, 10, 122, 123 ; 

 her wedding, 11, 81 ; queen's tongue, 

 18 ; sting, 26 ; organs, 27 ; finding 

 the queen, 103; searching for the, 

 107 ; drone-breeding, 109 ; caging, 

 134, 136; loss of, 168; old, 168; 

 defective, 158; "balled," 168, 

 165 ; clipping her wings, 121. 



Queen cages, 128, 134, 166. 



Queen cells, 8, 37, 106, 113 ; false, 113 ; 

 inserting, 162. 



Queen excluder, 57, 146, 148, 149. 



Queen Introduction, 166-168. 



Queen larvae, niirsine, 114. 



Queen rearing, 8, 158-165 ; limiting, 

 127 : on a large scale, 168. 



Queeiilessaess, 168 ; signs of, 159. 



Queens per post, sending, 168. 



Quilts, 60. 



Rabbet, Double, 46. 



Ragweed, 221, 223. 



Reaumur, 77, 203. 



Recipes, for bee-food, 183; carbolic 



solutions, 201 ; formalin solutlini, 



201. 



Bemedies for bcc stings, 97. 



Ee-queenlng, 1S6. See queen rearing. 



Bibes Kubra, 221, 228. 



Bipener, honey, 73, 156, 



Blpening honey, 73, 156. 



Bobbing, 64, 164, 176; precautions, 



176 ; signs of, 176 ; treatment, 176. 

 Boots of hives, 46; defective, to r>- 



patt, 207, 208, 209. 

 Boot, A. I., 60. 

 Boyal jeUy, 114. 



Sainfom, 221. 223, 



Sally, 221, 223. 



Sand bees, 32. 



Saw-dust, 45, 



Saxifrage, 221, 223. 



Scent difFuser, 90. 



Scilla, 221, 223. 



Second, third, and fourth casts, 117, 



123. 

 Section, the, 63. 

 Section crate. See Crate 

 Section honey less profitable than 



extracted honey, 139. 

 Section travelling crate, 171. 

 Sections, various makes, 63, 140-141 ; 



" bait," 56, 146, 166 ; preparing, 



140, 211-218; extracting honey from, 



166; cleaning, 166: storing, 166; 



gra^ng, 170, 212 ; glazing, 170, 218 ; 



packing, 171; for exhibition, 210-S14, 

 Seminal vesicles, 26. 

 Separators, 64, 140-141, 

 Shallow frames, 62. 

 Sheet and quilts, 60. 

 SUex, 6. 



Simmins, 95, 168. 

 Skeleton of bee, external, 16. 

 Skep, the, 41 ; use of, 41, 131-133 ; 



automatic transfer from, 138 ; 



giving place to moveable-comb hive, 



41 ; supering, 160 ; feeding bees in, 



382 ; protecting in winter, 107. 

 Smoter, Ihe, 67, 95, 99 ; jnupaiing, 



100. 

 Smoking overdone, 102. 

 Snow, to be removed, 207, 209. 

 Solar wax extractor, 74, 157. 

 Spermatheca, queen's, 12, 27, 28. 

 Bpermatophore, 26, 27. 

 Spennatozoa, 12, 25, 27, 28. 

 Spiracles, 21. 

 Spoon, 18. 



Spreading the brood. 111, 139. 

 Spring, the bee hi, 4-6 ; cleaning, 136 ; 



feeding, 179, 183 ; management, 208 ; 



fiowers, 221-223. 

 Standard frame, 51 ; number of cells 



in, 108. 

 Stand for combs, 99. 

 Steam wax extractor, 76, 167. 

 Stimulative feeding, 110, 117, 161, 179, 



208, 209. 

 Sting, worker's, 24 ; queen's, 25 ; use 



of, 26, 93, 95 ; unprovoked use of 



