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INDEX 



Irons, driving, 95. 



Insurance for beekeepers, 126. 



Jelly, royal, 10, 94. 

 Journal, British Bee, 125. 



K. 



Knife, uncapping, 82. 

 Krupnick, 118. 



Lace-edged paper, 103. 

 Langstroth, 22. 

 Larva, 8. 

 Life of bee, 6. 

 Lift, brood, 24. 



„ shallow, 25. 

 Ligurian bee, 12. 

 Ling, 18. 



List of appliances, 21. 

 Loss of queen, 87. 



M. 



Management, general, 122, 

 „ summer, 123. 



Manipulation, over, 3. 



,, subduing and, 66. 



Market, the, 102. 

 Mead, 116. 

 Meath, 116. 

 Medicated syrup, 60. 

 Mehring, 39. 

 Metal runners, 32. 



,, ends, "W.B.C.," 38, 80. 

 Metheglin, 116. 

 Mice, 112. 

 Miodomel, 118. 

 More, Sir J., 117, 

 Moth, virax, H2. 

 Munn, Major, 22. 



N. 



Nails for hive making, 27. 

 Napthol-beta solution, 61. 

 Natural history of the bee, 4. 

 Nucleus, 90. 



O. 



Odour of foul brood, 108. 

 Over manipulation, 3. 

 Origin of queen bee, 9. 



Painting hives, 33. 



Pea flour, 65. 



Pests, 112. 



Piping, 12. 



Plants, amount of honey secreted 



by, 20. 

 Plants and insects, 16 



,, pollen yielding, 17. 

 Pollen, artificial, 62, 122. 



,, bees and, 3. 



,, bees carrying in, a, 50. 



,, used by bees, 3. 

 Porter bee escape, 78. 

 Position of hives, 14. 

 Preparation for winter, 105. 

 Prevention of foul brood, 109. 

 ,, of swarming, 125. 



Prime swarm, 12. 

 Propokovitsch, 22. 

 Propolis, 6. 



Queen bee, description of, 4. 

 ,, fecundation of, 10. 



,, origin of, 9. 



,, time taken to hatch, 10. 



Queen cells, 9, 11, 68, 91. 

 ,, excluder, 76. 

 „ ,, to remove, 105. 



