INDEX 



123 



Marketable Produce — 

 Furniture cream, 59 

 Honey — 

 Good extracted honey, 



Price of, in bulk, 61 

 Section honey sells quick- 

 ly, 61 

 Honey soap, 59 

 Honey vinegar, 59 (recipe 



for, 59) 

 Lip salve, 59 

 Mead, 59 (recipe for, 64) 

 Nuclei, 59 



Practical advice on, 60 

 Queen bees, Prices of, 59, 64 

 Stocks, 59 



Swarms, 59 ; Prices of, 62, 63 

 Wax, 59, 61 

 May swarms, 18 

 Mid-season work, 71 



Prices of a good colony of, 22 

 Profits attainable by bee- 

 keeping, 12 



Queens — 

 Deposed by the bees, 85 

 Duties of, 16 

 How to force bees to raise 



new, 86 

 To introduce to a new 



colony, 87 

 To raise for commercial 



purposes, 88 

 Young ones essential, 85 



Races of Bees — 

 Brown bees, 109 

 Camiolan race of, 109 

 Italian race of, 168 



Removing stocks when bees 

 are flying, Precaution in, 75 



Robbing bees, To check, 73 



Sale stock and production, 



59 

 Sections — 

 Finished ones necessary for 



sale, 72 

 Rack for, 39 

 Solid ones, and how to fix, 



38 

 To fix foundation in, 37 

 Various kinds of, 37 



Skeps — Prices of, 23 

 Small-holders, Valuable source 

 of profit 'to, 11 



Stings, and what to do for 

 them, 69 



Swarms — 

 Casts, and after-swarms, 57 

 How they leave the hive, 54 

 How to capture, 55 

 Reason of natural swarms. 



53 

 Recommended for begin- 

 , ners, 24 



Sold by the pound, 24 

 To obviate swarming, 54 



