INDEX 



of, 174-175; operation of, 177- 



179; general advisability of 



establishing, 184-186. 

 Outdoor wintering, 283, 286-291, 



295-296. 

 Overalls for women beekeepers, 



69. 



Paralysis, disease of bees, 197- 



198. 

 Parthenogenesis among bees, 44. 

 Paste made from honey, 247. 

 Phillips, E. F., bee expert, 195. 

 Physiology of bees, 11-17. 

 Plants on which bees feed, 306- 



321. 

 Poison in stings, 16. 

 Pollen-gathering, 38-39. 

 Pollination of fruit blossoms by 



bees, 4-5. 

 Porter bee escape, the, 129. 

 Pratt, E. R., 101. 

 Preserves made with honey, 251. 

 Presses for extracting wax, 222- 



224. 

 Prices of honey, 203, 206, 207. 

 Profits from bee-keeping, 6, 8-9, 



206-207. 

 Propolis, bee-glue, 23, 34-35. 

 Purchasing swarms, 59. 

 Pure food laws, 208; effect on 



honey production, 231-232. 



Queen bees, 13; choice of, in 

 selecting Italian bees, 26-27; 

 position of, in hives, 40-41; 

 fertilization of, 41-44; appear- 

 ance of, 44; age and powers of, 

 46; laying of eggs by, 48; rais- 

 ing of, 97 ff . ; destruction of old, 

 100; tested and untested. 111; 

 introduction of, to strange 

 hives, 113-115, 164-167; ene- 

 mies that prey on , 199. 



Queen-excluding boards, 136-137. 



Queen-rearing, 97 ff.; Swarth- 



more system of, 101-110; 

 danger from robber bees during, 

 261. 



Races of bees, 18-27. 

 Raising queen bees, 97-116. 

 Rauchfauss veil, the, 67. 

 Recipes, honey cooking, 240-253. 

 Refining wax, method of, 225-228. 

 Reproduction, method of, 41-44, 



83, 109-110. 

 Robbing, the matter of, 258-268. 

 Ronan, J. D., mentioned, 161. 

 Root Jumbo smoker, the, 66. 

 Root twin mating-box, 110. 

 Root wire excluding-board, 137. 

 Rules for grading comb honey, 



211-214. 



Sale of honey, 202-216. 



Sections, choice of size, 131; for 



marketing comb honey, 215. 

 Sentinel bees, 3. 

 Shipping bees, 69-64, 180-183. 

 Shipping honey, 208-211. 

 Shipping-cases, 209-210. 

 Shook Swarm Plan, the, 90. 

 Simplicity feeder, the, 272. 

 Skimks as bee enemies, 200. 

 Smokers, 65-66. 

 Snakes as bee enemies, 200. 

 Solar wax extractors, 221-222. 

 Sources of honey, 55-57, 297-321. 

 Spring dwindling, condition 



known as, 198-199; preventive 



measures, 285. 

 Stands for hives, 176-177. 

 Sting, the, 16. 

 Stings, avoidance of, 73-76; the 



poison of, 80; removal of, 80- 



81 ; remedies for, 81 ; effect on 



the bee, 82. 

 Sulking, treatment for, 126-127. 

 Super chamber, the, 71 ; insertion 



of, 124; for extracting honey, 



133-134. 



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