300 
Cucumber, bee as pollenizing agent, 
85 
Cup-plant, 65 
Cutting out queen cells, 102, 158 
prices of honey, 282 
Cyprian bees, 98 
Dadant method of wintering, 242 
hive for extracted honey, 173 
Dandelion, 48, 53 
Demaree method of swarm control, 
185 
Demonstrations, with bees, 5 
De-queening during honey flow, 158 
Devil’s darning needles, 22+ 
Diseases, 206 
American foul brood, 207 
dysentery, 223 
European foul brood, 215 
laws for controlling, 292-296 
sacbrood, 221 
treatment of, 21%, 219, 228 
Disinfecting, for foul brood, 215 
Division board feeder 134 
Doolittle feeder, 134 
method of queen rearing, 124 
Doorweed, 74 
Double-walled hives, 245 
Dragon flies, 224 
Drone, 95 
Dysentery, 223 
Elm, source of pollen, 80 
Empty combs, care of, 206 
Enemies of bees, 206 
Entrance feeder, 134 
Entrance, width of, 186 
Equipment, for beginner, 18, 19 
for com) honey production, 137 
minor, 23 
Excluders, 186 
Exhibits, at fairs, 269 
Experience, getting, 18 
Extracted honey, packages for, 265 
power for, 168 
production of, 165 
storage tanks for, 169 
Extracting, 188 
Extractors, 165 
Failures, from lack of experience, 
16 
INDEX 
Fairs, exhibits at, 269 
Fall flowers, 63 
Farmer, bee-keeper, 16 
Feeding bees, 128 
for reserve supply, 129 
preparation for, 129 
to stimulate brood rearing, 
130 
Feeders, Alexander, 134 
division board, 134 
entrance, 134 
Miller, 133 
Minnesota, 131 
tin-pan, 133 
Fertile workers, 94 
Figwort, 78 
Flaxboard, 24 
Florida, honey plants of, 50 
Foul brood, 206 
American, 207 
European, 215 
Foundation, full sheets of, 180 
in sections, 145-198 
Frames, 174 
Fruit bloom, 55, 85 
Fumigation for wax moths, 163 
German bees, 98 
Getting acquainted with hees, 1 
Cloves, need of, 20 
Goldenrod, 61 
Grading. extracted honey, 205 
honey comb, 257 
official rules for 258 
Heartsease, 74 
Hive, for extracted honey, 173 
kind to adopt, 1!) 
markers, Bonney, 45 
marks, 43 
observatory, 25 
spacing, 38 
stands, 39 
to open, 5 
tool, 21 
Hiving swarm, 103 
Hot¥man frame, 174 
Home markets, 260 
Honey flow, of short duration, 9 
house, 175 
method of introducing queens, 
117 
