446 Glossary. 
Queen Rearing—Raising of queens, p. 233. 
Queen Register—Card to show state of hive as to queen, p. 246. 
Queen’s Voice—Noise made by queen like piping; true voice, p. 142. 
Queen Yard—Box with perforated zinc, to keep a clipped queen from being lost 
when she comes out with a swarm ; also called queen trap, p. 141. 
Quilt—Cover for brood frames, consisting of two cloths containing wool or cotton 
sewed together, p. 185. 
Quinby Hive—Large Huber style of hive, p. 198, 
Quinby Frame—Large frame 18% by 1114 inches, p. 191. = 
Quincunx—Where things in rows alternate, thus,.°*.*. 
Rabbet—Where one side of the edge of a board is planed down for ashort distance, 
. 182. 
Hace-(Breed, Where a variety has been closely bred so long as to transmit its 
peculiarities to its offspring. Race is a natural breed, p. 37. 
Rack—Crate or case ; section rack. 
Rectal Glands—Glands in the rectum, p. 121. 
Rectum—Large intestine, p. 121. 
Rendering Wax—Melting and cleaning wax, p. 317. 
Heversing inverting ; turning bottom up, p. 257. 
Rhomb—Four equal sided figure, two of whose opposite angles are equal and acute, 
the others equa! and obtuse, 
Ripe honey—Honey that has cured or evaporated, so it is thick, p. 149. 
Robbing—When bees steal honey from another colony, p. 402. 
Royal Jelly--Food fed to queen larva, p. 88. 
Scouts—Bees that go forth just before swarming to find and prepare the new home. 
Seal—To close. 
Sealed Brood—Brood in cells that the bees have capped, p. 136. 
Sealed Honey—Honey in cells that are capped. 
Section—--Small frame for comb honey, p. 203. - 
Separator—W ood or tin strip, very thin, for separating sections, so that bees will 
build straight and true combs, p. 211. 
Septum—Base between cells of comb ; incorrectly called mid-rib. 
Sholtz oe net candy; sugar and honey mixed ; described years ago by Sholtz, 
a German. 
Skip—Straw hive, such as were used in olden times, 
Smell—Sense located in antennz of insects, p. 56. 
Smoker—Instrument used to smoke or quiet bees, p. 298. 
edie ier variety or race of bees from a province—Smyrna—in Asiatic 
rkey, p. 46. : 
Species—Animals so long bred as to have distinctive characteristics, more fixed 
than a race, p. 37. 
Spent Queen—One sterile with age. 
Spermatheca—The sac off oviduct of queen that holds the sperm, p. 75. 
Spermatozoz—Sperm cells ; the male element or fecundating principle, p. 94. 
Spring Deindles ee dying of bees in the spring, p. 396. 
Stand—Support of hive. Incorrectly used for colony. 
Starter—A small piece of comb or foundation fastened to the top bar of a hive, p- 
250. 
Sterile Queen—One that does not lay, p. 97. 
ating tne organ of defense of bees, wasps, etc., p. 130. 
Stock—Wrongly used for colony ; if used at all it should refer to bees, hive and all. 
Stomach—Where the food is mainly digested, p, 120. 
Storify —Used in England for adding upper stories to hives. 
Strain—A variety, as a strain of bees, developed by the bee-keeper. 
Strained Honey—Honey strained through a cloth, not extracted honey. 
Sulphur—A yellow mineral used to fumigate honey, a 
Super—Upper story, either for extracted Roney or Coney in sections, p. 209. 
Supersede—To replace with another, ; 
Etc pace es leaves hive in natural division, 140. 
warming Basket—Basket to convey swarm from pla i 
Swarming Impulse or Fever—Desire of the bees 6. pres eee eo ren es kee 
Swarming Season—Season of year when bees are likely to swarm. 
Syrian Bee—Race of yellow bees from Northern Palestine, p. 44, 
Taking up Bees—Destroying bees to get the honey. Rare now. 
Tarsus— t one to five joints of insect leg ; foot, p, 123. 
Tested Queen—One proved pure by examination ott her offspring. 
