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INDEX 



Capping of cells, 9. 

 Carbolic acid, 71, 105. 



„ cloth, 105. 

 Carniolan bee, 13. 

 Carr, W. B., 23, 38. 

 Casts, II. 

 Catalogues, 114. 

 Cells, capping of, g. 



,, drone, 8. 

 , honey stored in, 7. 



„ queen, 8, 11, 68, 91. 



,, size of, 7. 



,, worker, 7. 

 Chilled brood, 108. 

 Chyle food, 8. 

 Chylinski, D., 118. 

 Cleaning extractors, 84. 

 ,, hives, 106, 123. 

 „ sections, 78. 

 ,, wet combs, 82. 

 Cloth, carbolic, 105. 

 Clover, 18, 72. 

 Comb foundation, 39. 



„ „ " Root," 39. 



„ ,, Weed, 39. 



„ honey, 74. 

 Combs, renewing of, 123. 

 Cottagers and beekeeping, 119. 

 Cotton, W. C, 119. 

 Cowan extractor, 8 1 . 

 Cowan travelling crate for 



bottles, 103. 

 Cowan travelling crate for 



sections, 103. 

 Cross breeding, 13, 92. 

 Cross-leaved heather, 19. 

 Crown boards, 42. 

 Cyprian Bee, 1 3. 



D. 



Dimensions of hive, 28. 



„ of shallow frame, 36. 



„ of standard frame, 34. 



Direct introduction of queens, 94. 

 Diseases of bees, 107. 

 Dividers or separators, 76. 



Division boards, 36. 



Domestic economy of the hive, 7. 



Double flowers, 16. 



Doubling and storifying, 84. 



Driving, 95. 



„ irons, 95. 

 ,, precautions, 98. 

 Drone brood, 9. 



„ cells, 8. 



.. eggs, 9. 

 Drones, description of, 5. 



„ in queenless stocks, 5, 87. 

 Dysentery, 1 10. 

 Dzierzon, i. 



E. 



Eggs, kinds of, 8. 

 ,, queen laying, 8. 

 ,, time taken to hatch, 8. 

 Embedder, Woiblet spur, 41. 

 Ends, "W.B.C." metal, 38, 80. 

 Enemies of bees, 1 1 2. 

 English bee, 12. 

 Excluder, queen, 76. 



„ to remove, 105. 

 Extracted honey, 80. 



,, ,, super for, 33, 80. 



Extracting, 82. 



,, avoidance of robbing 



during, 84. 

 Extracting wax, 8j. 

 Extractor, " The Cowan," 81. 

 ,, " The Raynor," 8 1 . 

 „ wax, 85. 



Extractors, cleaning, 84. 



F. 



Fecundation of queen, 10. 

 Feeder, Canadian, 63. 



„ slow, 46. 

 Feeding, artificial, 60. 



„ rapid, 62, 106. 



,, slow, stimulative, 60, 105. 



,, syrup lor rapid, 62. 



