CONTENTS. 



XI 



Success is certain to the per- 

 severing, 149 



Profits of bee-keepiug during 



the last five years, 149 



The importance of feeding 



well, 149 



What happens if not weU fed, 150 



Hunger swai'ms, 150 



Wealthy mill-owners of Lan- 

 cashire, 150 



Best artificial food is sugar- 



and-water, 151 



In what proportions mixed,. 151 

 Many ways of feeding bees, . . . 152 



None condemned, 152 



Feeding-board, cistern, and 



trough, 153 



Flower-pot saucers, 154 



The "express" method of feed- 

 ing bees, 155 



Feeding in winter, 156 



CHAPTER XXX. 

 Is sugar syrup converted into 



honey by bees? 157 



A fraudulent practice, 157 



A bad shilUng and spurious 



honey, 157 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Diseases of bees, 159 



Dysentery, 169 



Foulbrood, 159 



How to discover its existence, 162 



Incurable, 162 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



The enemies of bees, 163 



Mice; snails, 163 



Robbers, 164 



How bees know each other,.., 165 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

 Transporting bees from one 

 place to another, 166 



Great care required, 166 



Best hives generally suffer,... 167 

 Various ways of preventing 



suffocation, 167 



The value of cross-sticks, 167 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



The selection and preparation 



of stock-hives for another 



year, 171 



Should be full, or nearly full, 



of combs, 171 



Should contain young queens, 172 

 The destruction of swarms 



condemned, 172 



What should be done with 



them, 172 



Greater consumption of food 



in populous hives, 173 



What to do with very light 



hives, 173 



Value of fresh combs to a 



young swarm, 174 



What is to be done when all 



the hives are too heavy for 



keeping? 174 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



The brimstone-pit, 177 



Is it more inhuman to use it 

 than cut the throat of a 



? 17 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



On driving and shaking bees 

 from hives, and uniting 

 them to other swarms, ... 179 

 How they are shaken out, ... 180 

 Done in about half a minute, 180 

 Often done in candle-light, ... 181 

 Minted syrup and nutmeg,... 182 

 The hilarity of children and 

 bees, 182 



