CONTENTS 



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Chapter 1. Early experiments — Natural History. . 1 



The Queen.... 5 



The worker- bee 6 



Chapter 2. Size of Hives. 9 



The large hive 10 



Small hives 14 



Safety in wintering 20 



Frame spacing 21 



The supers 23 



Side storage 26 



Queen excluders 26 



Chapter 3. Drones and Drone Production. 29 



Chapter 4. The Dadant Hive 35 



A simplified Dadant hivo 42 



Hive making 46 



Chapter 5. Handling Bees. 47 



Chapter 6. Our Apiaries. 49 



Outapiaries 52 



Chapter 7. Apiary Management. 55 



Spring 56 



The honey crop 57 



Increase. _ 57 



Queens for increase 58 



Chapter 8. Swarm Prevention and Supering. 65 



Prevention of natural swarming 65 



Putting on supers 72 



Chapter 9. Extracting. 75 



Extracting implements 80 



Robbing...- 85 



Varying honey crops 87 



Requeening .._ 88 



Queen Introduction 89 



Chapter 10. Nomadic Beekeeping. 91 



Chapter 11. Fall Management. , 97 



Chapter 12. Wintering. 99 



Cellar wintering 100 



Our house cellar 101 



Wintering in clamps 102 



Wintering out-of-doors 102 



Chapter 13. Diseases of Bees. 107 



Chapter 14. Enemies of Bees. 113 



