fl CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VI.— HiTES and Boxes. 



Movable Comb Hive— Constraction and AdvaDtages— Intelligent Manipa- 

 latlon NeceuBary — Hanging Frame ur Langstroth Hive— Frames- 

 Division Board — Sioe-boxing Hives — Observatory Hive — New 

 Qainby Hive— Standing Frame— Panels or Side-boards— Small 

 Bottom-board /or Qiiinby Frames- Out«r Casu not Always Essential 

 — Complete New Quinby Hive— Position of the Frames —Stands for 

 Hives — Alighting Boards— Koofa— Painting Hives — Accuracy Essen- 

 tial — Honey 5oJ»* — Section Frames Objectionable— Two-comb 

 Boxes— Block for Setting up Boxes— Single-comb, or Section Boxes 

 — Construction of Section Box — Guide Combs — Separators — The 

 Clamp 95-125 



CHAPTER VII.— TRANSrEBBINQ. 



Advantages- Time to Transf er- Preliminaries- Process 135-129 



CHAPTER VIII.— Queens. 



Impoi-tance of Selecting Good Stock— Fertilization in Confinement— 

 Bearing Queeru: When to Rear— How to Rear Queens- Another 

 Method— Forming Nuclei— Queen Nursery— Queen Cages— Introduc- 

 ing Queens— Clipping Queens' Wings — Process- How to Handle a 

 Queen— Age of Queens— Drone-Laying Queens— Loss of Queens- 

 Indications of Loss— Mure than one Queen in a Hive 129-152 



CHAPTER IX.- Natural and Artifioiai, Increase. 



Natural Incream— "When Swarming Commences— Indications of Swarm- 

 ing—Preparations—Which Bees Compose the Swarm— Immediate In- 

 dications of a Swarm— How to Hive tbem — Emergencies— Separating 

 Swarms— Swarms Returning to the Old Hive- After-Swarms- Pre- 

 venting After-swarms— ^rti/fc&ii M«r«(M«— Straight Combe— ControU- 

 ing Sijiarmin^' -Non-Swarming Hives— Methods —Depriving of a 

 Queen— Suggestions-Hints for Exceptional Seasons 152-172 



CHAPTER X.— Box-Tira and Surplus Hokit. 



Patting on Boxes- Removing Boxes— Care of Box Honey— Presence of 



Larvee — Suggestions for Securing Choice Specimens of Honey 172-179 



CHAPTER XI.— Th« Honet Extractor and its U«b. 



Its Value- Description— Desirable Features— The Use of the Honey Ex- 

 tractor — When to Extract— Arranging Hives for Extracting— How to 

 Extract— Curing Extracted Honey — Honey Knife — Securing Extra 

 Combs of Honey— Securing Guide Combs— Relative Amount of Box 

 and Extracted Honey 180-190 



CHAPTER Xn.— Wax and Coxb. 



Wax— Honey-Comb— Size of Cells— Hexagonal Shape not Essential- 

 Cost of Comb — Aitiflcial Comb — Supplying Material for Comb— 

 Comb-Foundation— Sheeting Wax— Wire In Foundation — Advan- 

 tages of Wire— Heavy Foundation Preferable— Uses and Value of 



- ■ Foundation — Foundation In Sorplns Boxes>~To fasten Foundation In 



Frames- Expense of Foundation Machines— Rendering Wax 190-21)? 



