INDEX. 



181 



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Combs, renewal of 76 



Cells, size o£ 20 



„ worker, necessary 55 



„ queen 21, 56 



„ pitch of 21,121 



„ cappings of 29 



Condemned bees 139 



„ ,, disposal of 161 



Colony of bees, a good ... 89 



Cone escape 65,130 



Casts 32 



„ sign of issue 33 



Cyprian bees 38 



Camiolan bees 39 



Carbolic spray 45 



Carbolic cloth 45 



CarboUc solution 46 



Crowding bees, advantage 



of 64 



Clubbing, advantage of ... 170 

 Commencing bee-keeping 99 

 Cleansing flight 156 



Dbones 26 



„ when produced ... 26 



„ massacre of 26 



Drone comb, disadvantage 



of 77 



Distance-keepers 69 



Dysentery 90, 146 



Dry sugar feeding 91 



Diseases 9, 145 



ExTEACTOE (honey) 118 



Little Wonder 118 



Cowan ... 8, 119 



„ Meadows ... 120 



,, how used ... 121 



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Extractor (wax), Gerster 178 



Killick 177 



,, Cowan 176 



Cost of 102 



Solar 177 



Eggs, quantity laid daily 29 

 Egg-laying, sole work of 



queen 24, 90 

 ,, when com- 

 menced ... 29 

 „ when stopped 29, 89 

 Excluder zinc 64, 102, 115, 127 

 Enemies of bees 153 



Foundation 9, 56, 68 



„ advantage of 74, 85 

 „ casts for ... 75 



„ wired 76 



wiring ... 81, 82 



„ brood 75 



„ super ... 75, 102 



,, fixing 78 



,, why use full 

 sheets 75, 85, 



102, 127 



Foundation fixer, Abbott's 83 



„ Parker . 84 



Foundation mill 75 



Flowers, how fertilised ... 12 

 ,, nectaries of ... 12 

 „ colours of, at- 

 tractive 12 



„ odours of 12 



Fruit production, value of 



bees in 13 



Fumigator, Webster's ... 44 

 ,, Bertrand ... 150 



Fixed-comb hives 52 



Frames, British standard 67 



