xii Contents, 



PAGE 



Separators 211 



Foot Power Saw 211 



CHAPTER VI. 



Position and Arrangement of Apiary 214 



Position 214 



Arrang^ement of Grounds 214 



Preparation for Each Colony .'. 215 



CHAPTER VII. 



To Transfer Bees '. '219 



The Old Method 220 



Hunting Bee Trees 223 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Feeding and Feeders 225 



How Much to Feed 226 



What to Feed 226 



How to Feed 227 



White Feeder 229 



CHAPTER IX. 



Queen Rearing 233 



How to Rear Queens 233 



Nuclei 236 



Queen Lamp Nursery 241 



Shall we Clip the Queen's Wing ? 243 



Fertile Workers 245 



Queen Register, or Apiary Register 246 



CHAPTER X. 



Increase of Colonies 248 



Swarming 248 



Hiving Swarms 252 



To Prevent Second Swarms 255 



To Prevent Swarming 256 



Artificial Increase 257 



How to Divide 258 



Capturing Absconding Swarms 260 



CHAPTER XI. 



Italians and Italianizing 261 



The New Races of Bees 264 



What Bees Shall we Keep 265 



How to Italianize 265 



How to Introduce a Queen 265 



Valentine's Comb Stand 269 



To get oui- Italian Queens » , 271 



