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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Introduction 5 



Location of apiary 6 



Apparatus 7 



Hive stands , , '. 7 



Hives 7 



Honey boards and queen excluders 8 



Bee escapes 9 



Drone traps . , 9 



Division boards 10 



Veils and gloves 10 



iManipulation and behavior of bees 11 



Variety of cells 11 



Preparing hives for the honey crop 13 



Swarming 13 



Hiving of swarms 15 



Shook swarming 15 



Clipping of queens 16 



Breeding queens Ig 



Introduction of queen cells and queens into colonies and nuclei 18 



Preparstion for making of nuclei 20 



Uniting oq 



Feeding bees 21 



Handling of honey 22 



Extracting houses 22 



Extractors 24 



Uncapping cans and !■: nives 24 



Shipment of honey 25 



A record of production 25 



Honey plants „„ 



Principal honey plants 27 



Other honey plants „„ 



Insect pests and diseases „„ 



Ants and cockroaches „„ 



Bee moths 



Foul brood 



