INDEX. 



227 



(Esophagus, 23. 



Ovaries of queen and workers, 



Oviducis of queen, 27, 28 



Packing bees for transport, 84-87. 

 Packing honey — comb, 171 ; extracted, 



173. 

 Palpi, 17, 18, 2r.. 

 Paraglossse, 18. 

 Paralysis, 186. 

 Parasites, 203. 

 Parthenogenesis, 11, 28. 

 Past and present, 76, 

 Pea floiir, 111, 184b. 

 Pear, 223. 

 Petiole, 23. 



Petroleum jelly, 99, 100, 143. 

 Pickled brood, 188. 

 Pine, seasoned, for hives, 44. 

 Pipe cover, queen cage, 167. 

 Planta, 19. 

 Pliny, 40. 

 Pollen, 3, 5, 33, 38; how gathered. 



19, 38; artificial, Ul, 182. 

 Pollen mite, 203. 

 Poppy, 221, 223. 

 Porter bee escape, 152. 

 Prevention of Swarming, 124-126. 

 Profitable industry. Bee-keeping a, 79. 

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

 Pulvillus, 20. 

 Purchasing bees, 83. 

 PjTus 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 ; virgin queen, 10, 122, 123 ; 

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

 18 ; sting, 25 ; organs, 27 ; finding 

 the queen, 103 ; searching for the, 

 107 ; drone-breeding, 109 ; caging, 

 134, 136; loss of, 158; old, 158; 

 defective, 158 ; " balled," 158, 

 165 ; clipping her wings, 121. 



Queen cages, 128, 134, 166. 



Queen cells, 8, 37, 105, 113 ; false, 113 ; 

 inserting, 162. 



Queen excluder, 57, 145, 148, 149. 



Queen introduction, 165-168. 



Queen larvte, nursing, 114. 



Queen rearing, 8, 158-165; limiting, 

 127. 



Queenlessness, 158 ; signs of, 159. 



Queens per post, sending, 168. 



Quilts, 50. 



Rabbet, Double, 45. 



Ragweed, 221, 22:i. 



Reaumur, 77, 203. 



Recipes, for bee-food, 183 ; carbolic 



solutions, 201 ; formalin solutions, 



201. 



Remedies for bee stings, 97. 



Re-queening, 196. See queen rearing. 



Ribes Rubra, 221, 223. 



Ripener, honey, 73, 156. 



Ripening honey, 73, 156. 



Robbing, 64, 154, 175 ; precautions, 

 175 ; signs of, 175 ; treatment, 176. 



Roofs of hives, 46 ; defective, to re- 

 pair, 207, 208, 209. 



Root, A. I., 60. 



Royal jelly, 114. 



Sainfoin, 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, 53. 

 Section crate. See <'rate 

 Section honey less profitable than 



extracted honey, 139. 

 Section travelling crate, 171. 

 Sections, various makes, 53, 140-141 ; 



" bait," 56, 145, 156 ; preparing, 



140, 211-213; extracting honey from, 



156 ; cleaning, 156 ; storing, 156 ; 



grading, 170, 212 ; glazing, 170, 213 ; 



packing, 171; for exhibition, 210-214, 

 Seminal vesicles, 25. 

 Separators, 54, 140-141. 

 Shallow frames, 52. 

 Sheet and quilts, 50. 

 Silex, 5. 



Simmins, 95, 168. 

 Skeleton of bee, external, 15, 

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



automatic transfer from, 138 ; 



giving place to moveable-comb hive, 



41 ; supering, 150 ; feeding bees in, 



182 

 Smoker, the, 67, 95, 99 ; preparing, 



100. 

 Smoking overdone, 102. 

 Snow, to be removed, 207, 209. 

 Solar wax extractor, 74, 157. 

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

 Spermatophore, 25, 27. 

 Spermatozoa, 12, 25, 27, 28. 

 Spiracles, 21. 

 Spoon, 18. 



Spreading the brood, 111, 139. 

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



feeding, 179, 183 ; management, 208 ; 



flowers, 221-223. 

 Standard frame, 51 ; number of cells 



in, 108. 

 Stand for combs, 99. 

 Steam wax extractor, 75, 157. 

 Stimulative feeding, 110, 117, 161, 179, 



208, 209. 

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



of, 25, 93, 95 ; unprovoked use <jf 



