88 



•Jnbreeding objectionable, (146) 



j:nereasing stocks by artificial swarming, (188, 189) 



introducing queen by cage, (152) 



introducing queen direct, (153) 



Italian bees, as honey gatherers, (119) . 



„ disposed to raise queens, (11) 



PCilling bees by smothering with sulphur, (171) 

 Knife, uncapping, (52) 



Lace paper for sections, (160) . 

 Larva, (10) 



Laying power of queen, (6, 144) 

 Lift, (22) 



„ second, (111) 

 LiiEe of worker, (7) 



Manipulating stocks, (62) 



„ position of operator when, (61) 



Measures and weights, (181) 

 Medicated candy, (176) 

 syrup, (179) 

 Moving hives, (15, 182 to 184) 



Naphthol Beta solution, (177). 

 Nucleus hive, (57) 

 Nuclei, forming, (148, 149) 

 „ management of, (150) . 



Operator, proper position of, (61) 



Packing honey for transit, (161-163) 



„ bar-frame hive with stock for transit by road 

 Paper for covering sections, (158-160) 

 Parcel post orate, (161) . 

 Passage for winter feeding, (129) 

 Personal supervision essential, (2) 

 Pollen, substitutes for, (106) . 

 Porch, (21) 



Porter bee-escape, (41, 113) 

 Post, sending queen by, (154) . 

 Preparing stocks for winter, (125) 

 Prevention of swarming, (88, 95-97, 118, 122) 

 robbing, (143) . 

 „ foul brood, (172) 



Profits of bee-keeping, (3) 



Queen bee, (6) 



„ cage. (55) 



„ caging, (151) . . ' 



„ catching, (151) . 



„ cell, (9) 



„ excluder zinc, (48) 



„ introduction by cage, (152) 



„ „ direct, (163) 



„ laying power of, (6, 144) 



„ lost when hiving, (77) . 



„ rearing, (144-150, 155) 



„ sending by post, (154) . 



„ time when young queen will lay eggs, (14) 

 Queenlesaness, signs of, ( 145) . 

 Queens, providing, (146) 



„ selecting, (146) 



„ wintering spare, (155) . 

 Quilt. (26, 102) . . ' 



„ for corkdust, (129) 



or rail, 



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