LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



Queen 24 



GroapsofBees 25 



Worker 25 



Sting of Worker 26 



Drone 87 



Esfgs and Larvae 32 



Ovarie8 of the Queen 36 



White Clover 50 



Alsike Clover 51 



Motherwort 52 



Silkweed 63 



BasBwood or Linden 55 



Fuller's Teasel 57 



Wild Teasel 57 



Smooth Sumach 58 



Golden Rod 61 



Hives upon Roofs at Ilion, N. Y 69 



View of Author's Apiary 71 



House Apiary of J. H. Nellis, Cana- 



joharie, N. Y 78 



The Quinby Smoker 91 



The Quinby Smoker^ Improved.... 91 



The Bee Veil 92 



Iron for Holding Frames 98 



Hanging-Frame Hive and Cap 99 



Hanging-Frame 100 



Division Board 101 



Observatory Hive 103 



New Quinby Hive, with Frames and 



Boxes 103 



Standing Frame 105 



Eoolc on the End of Standing 



Frame .106 



Form for Building Frames 106 



Panel for Side of Frames 107 



Panel, Improved 107 



Small Bottom-board for Quinby 



Hive 108 



Quinby Frames and Boxes in 



Clamps 109 



Large Bottom-board, with Frame., 110 



The Quinby Hive Clasp Ill 



The Quinby Hive with Roof 112 



Rooffor Hives 113 



Tin for Corner Popts of Boxes 117 



Two-Comb Box, 6 Honey-Board 118 



Block for Settin'JT up Boxes. 119 



Standard for Tops of Boxes 119 



Tin Point for Holding Glass 121 



Section Boxes 121 



Form for Making Section Boxes.. .121 



Separator 122 



Improved Separator 123 



An Empty Clamp.... 123 



Clamp Filled With Boxes 124 



Frame ContainiuL' Six Boxes 124 



Frame Containing Three Boxes 124 



Transferring Board 126 



Transferring Sticks 126 



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Transferred Combs 128 



NuclcusBox 133 



Comb with Brood for Queen Rais- 

 ing.... 134 



Comb with Brood Inserted in Comb.134 



Queen Cells Built upon Comb 185 



Queen Nursery 136 



Queen-Cell Box 141 



Queen Cages 143 



Queen with Clipped Wing 147 



Brood of Drone-laying Queen in 



Worker Cells 160 



Queen Cells over Drone Brood 150 



Cluster of Queen Cells and a Queen 



Cell cut from Comb 166 



Everett's Honey Extractor 180 



The Excelsior Honey Extractor. ... 181 



A Two-story Hive 184 



Van Deusen's Clasp 1K4 



Straight Honey Knife 188 



Curve-pointed Honey Knife 188 



Bingham & Hetherington's Honey 



Knife 188 



Abdomen of Bee with Scales of 



Wax 190 



Machine for Making Metallic Comb. 193 

 Manner of Setting up Metallic 



Combs 194 



Distorted Cells in Foundation 197 



Comb Foundation with Wires 197 



Machine for Making Worker-Comb 



Foundation 198 



Swiss Wax Extractor 202 



The Author's Wax Extractor 203 



Feeder for Quinby Hive on Panel. .206 



Van Deusen's Feeder 208 



Method of Filling Combs for Feed- 

 ing. 209 



The Honey Bug 222 



Trichodes Apiarius 222 



Seed-glass for Examining Parasites. 222 

 "American Agriculturist" Simple 



Microscope 223 



The Bee-moth in Different Posi- 

 tions 224 



Gallery of the Bee-moth Worm in 



Comb 225 



The Worm Gallery Removed 226 



Larva of Bne-moth 226 



Cocoons of Bee moth 227 



The Bee-killer 229 



Three Sizes of Honey Boxes 214 



Eight Five-pound Cases Kecased. . .234 

 Twelve Cans of Extracted Honey in 



Case 240 



Muth's Honey Bottles 24J 



Frames of Quinby Hive Prepared 



for Winler 244 



Tbermiimeter 250 



Double Clamp for Wintering Eees..2il 



