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INDEX 



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, 224 

 Diseases, 206 



American foul brood, 207 



dysentery, 223 



European foul brood, 215 



laws for controlling, 292-296 



sacbrood, 221 



treatment of, 212, 219, 223 

 Disinfecting, for foul brood, 215 

 Division board feeder 134 

 Doolittle feeder, 134 



method of queen rearing, 124 

 Doorwecd, 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, 135 



Entrance, width of, 186 



Equipment, for beginner, 18, 19 



for comb honey production, 137 

 minor, 23 



Excluders, 186 



Exhibits, at fairs, 269 



Experience, getting, 18 



Extracted honey, packages for, 263 

 power for, 168 

 production of, 165 

 storage tanks for, 169 



Extracting, 188 



Extractors, 165 



Failures, from lack of experience, 

 16 



Fairs, exhibits at, 269 

 Fall flowers, 63 

 Farmer, bee-keeper, 16 

 Feeding bees, 129 



for reserve supply, 130 

 preparation for, 130 

 to stimulate brood rearing, 

 131 

 Feeders, Alexander, 134 



division board, 134 



entrance, 135 



Miller, 133 



Minnesota, 132 



tin-pan, 134 

 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 bees, 1 

 Gloves, need of, 20 

 Goldenrod, 61 



Grading, extracted honey, 265 

 honey comb, 257 



official rules for 258 



Heartsease, 74 



Hive, for extracted honey, 173 



kind to adopt, 19 



markers, Bonney, 45 



marks, 43 



observatory, 25 



spacing, 38 



stands, 39 



to open, 5 



tool, 21 

 Hiving swarm, 103 

 Hofl'man frame, 174 

 Home markets, 260 

 Honey flow, of short duration, 9 



house, 175 



method of introducing queens, 

 117 



