302 
Retail markets, 274 
Returns from beekeeping, 12 
Rhododendron, $1 
Robber fly, 225 
Rosin weed, 65 
Sacbrood, 221 
Sage, 77 
Sale of honey, laws concerning, 216 
Saw palmetto, 77 
Seasons management, 149 
Sections, for comb honey, 138 
removing from super, 163 
Sentinels at entrance, + 
Separators, 141 
Shade, value of, 36 
Shipment, of queens, 296 
restrictions of, 295 
Shipping cases, for comlh honey, 261 
for extracted honey, 263 
Signs, 270, 271 
Simpson’s honey plant, 78 
Situations for keeping bees, 11 
Skunks, 224 
Smartweed, 74 
Smoke, use of, 5 
Smoker, 22, 23 
Smoker fuel, 22 
Snakefeeders, 224 
Sneezeweed, 81 
Snow-on-the-Mountain, 81 
Solar wax extractors, 200 
South, honey plants of, 49 
Space under brood nest as swarm 
prevention, 160 
Spacing hives, 38 
Spiders, 225 
Split sections, 144 
Spotting clothes, 284 
Spraying when in full bloom, 291 
Starters, putting in, 147 
Starved brood, 222 
Starwort, 69 
Steam press, 203 
Sting, 2 
Strong colonies, important, 83 
Sunflowers, 63 
Super springs, 148 
INDEX 
Supers, enticing bees into, 151 
putting on, 184 
Supplyinig empty combs, 110 
Swarm control, 156 
Demaree method of, 185 
Swarming, 100 
Tools for apiary, 20 
Transferring, 32, 33, 34 
Trembles, caused by boneset, 72 
Trouble, causes of, 284 
Truck crops, 57 
Uncapping boxes, 170 
knives, 173 
Veil, 20, 21 
Ventilation, of hives, 30, 186 
Walnut, source of pollen, 80 
Watering devices, 41, 42 
places, bees at, 284 
Water, method of introducing queens, 
lla 
need of, 41, 238 
Wax, adulteration of, 199 
bleaching, 204 
cooling, 205 
moths, 225 
fumigation for, 163 
press, 203 
production of, 195 
rendering, 200 
substitutes for, 190 
uses of, 198 
Weak colonies, care of, 154 
White snakeroot, 70 
Whitewood, 60 
Wild bergamot, 74 
Wild cucumper, 79 
Willow, 52, 74 
Wintering, avoid failing queens in 
236 
best feed for, 235 
essentials of successful, 234 
influence of the queen in, 236 
methods of, 239-256 
protection from winds, 237 
Wiring frames, 181 
Worker bees, 92 
