572 



INDEX. 



Root apiary 301 



Root, A. I. (Novice) chaff-hive. .357 

 on adultera- 

 tion. .519 

 " candy- 

 making. .334 

 " comb- 

 building. . 



96, 97, 98 

 " extracting 



454 

 " feeding 



bees . . 334 

 " foundation 



machines. 385 

 " hive- 

 making. 178, 179 

 " Italian 



bees. 295, 298 

 " long and 

 short 

 frames. 153 

 on drone 

 production 63 

 " " on shipping 



bees by the 



pound 325 



Root, B. R., on foul-brood. .481, 482 



" on frames 150 



on Danzenbaker 



frames. .151 

 on weight of bees. . . .326 

 Root, L. C, author of Quinby's 



New Bee-keeping. .141 

 " uses closed-end frames 



141 



Royal jelly 17,47,259 



Russia, wintering in 340, 361 



Sack for hiving swarms 223 



Salivary glands 15, 16, 21 



Salt for bees 130, 131 



Saltpeter- rags 194 



Sartori & Rauschenfels, honev- 



cake. .528 

 " " on comb- 



building.. 96 



Sashes for windows 318 



Saunier experiment on brood. . 75 



Savage observing hive 186 



Scales of wax 94 



Schiemenz describes the stomach 



mouth. . 28 

 Schirach discovery of the origin 



of the queen. . 40 



Scholz candy 324, 335 



material for hives 177 



Schonfeld on the chyle 28 



Scouts 215 



" returning 219 



Screen 318 



Scudamore on swarm 227, 243 



Sealed honey for extracting. .. .461 

 " " in sections. .443, 444 



Sealed queen cells 45,269 



Sealing of comb 122 



Sectional hives 135 



Sections 431, 432 



" brood frames for..433, 44& 



" case 433 



" Miller 449' 



" propolizing 442 



removing 444 



securing straight combs 



in. .439- 

 Selection in bees. .235, 236, 261, 26T 



Selling honey 51S 



bees 327 



Separators 439 



Shade 239' 



Shakespeare 336 



Shaking the bees like seeds. 32, 228 



Sheds 308 



Shipping bees 320- 



" to better pasture.322 



honey- 511, 512 



queens 323 



by mail 324 



food for 32S 



from Italy . . . .324 



Shook-swarming 250- 



Siebold, his opinion of the "Ber- 



lepsch" hive. .144 

 " on parthenogenesis. . .56, 60- 



Sieve 46!> . 



Simmins' method of introducing 



queens. . 285 

 " non-swarming system. 236; 



Size of frames 149, 153, 154 



" of our hive . . . . ^ 164 



Slteleton of insect 2 



Slanting apron-board 166, 167 



Smelling organs 11 



" " direct bees to 



flowers. .13, 14 

 " " Girard experi- 



ments on. . U 

 " " very acute . . . 



13, 206, 28S 



Smoke for handling bees 193 



" helping robbers 201 



Smokers 191, 192 



fuel for 194 



Smoking bees 193 



" not always necessary. 19S 



Snails propolized 112 



Snow 350, 353 



Soria space hive 136 



Sounds produced in flight 34 



Sour honey 517 



Space around the frames. .142, 164 



" under division board 172 



Spaces between brood stories. ..152 



Spacing wire 170 



Sparrows and bees 503 



Spermatheca 5S 



Spine of the second pair of legs 24 

 Spinola onThe Italian bees. 293, 294 

 Spiracles of the lungs of bees. . .32 



Spring dwindling 368 



feeding 330 



Sproule on foul-brood 481 



Square frames 153 



