INDEX 



AdTantages of bar-frame hives, (18) 

 Age^of biood, (10) 



„':i queen, (6) 

 Alley method of transferring, (87) 

 American cloth, use of in feeding, (103) 

 Ants, protection of hive from, (69) 

 Apiary, site of, (68) 



„ arrangement of, (68) . 

 Appliance-box, (47) 

 Appliances for driving, (81) 



„ for commencing bee-keeping, 

 Artificial swarming, (185 to 189) 

 Autumn feeding, (104) 



Bar-frame, (24) 

 Bar-frame hive, (18) 

 Bee, queen, (6) 

 „ worker, (7) 

 „ drone, (8) 

 „ escape, cone, (23, 42, 112) 



„ Porter, (41, 113) 

 „ ,, Federation, (41) 



Bee-keeping, commencing, (67) 



„ requisites for commencing, 



„ works on, (1) 



„ profits of, (3) 



Bees, range of flight of, (15) 

 „ handling, (62) 

 „ uniting, (132 to 136) 

 „ subduing, (63) 

 „ driving, (81, 84) 

 „ transferring from fixed-comb hive 

 „ smothering, (171) 

 Beeswax, extracting, (138, 139) 

 Body-box, (21) 

 Box, appUance, (47) 

 „ swarm, (66) 

 „ for sendmg queen by post, (154) 

 „ for frames, (63) 

 Board, hiving, (54) 

 Brood (10), 



„ *ge of, (10) 



„ chamber, (21) 



„ spreading, reasons for, (88) 



„ „ time for, (89) 



„ j „ method of, (90) 



„ chilled, (164) 



„ foul, (165-172) 



Cage, queen, (55) 

 Caging queen, (161) 

 Candy, soft, (174) 



„ flour,i(n5) 



„ medicated, (176) 

 Capping cells, (17) 

 CarboUc solution, (180) 

 CarboUc^feather, use of, (64) 

 Caibolio;^cloth, (43, 66) %,>.„ 

 Cast, dewsription pf, (12)] " 

 CaatB, prevention of, (13, 96, 96, 100) 

 Cells, (9) 



(58) 



(58) 



to bar 



frame hive, (86, 



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87) 



60- 



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.10, 



