INDEX, 



275 



N. 



Neglect of bee-keeping 

 Neighbour's hives, tee 



Bee-hives. 

 New bottle-feeder . 

 Number of eggs in the 



season 

 Nutt's hive, see Bee-hives 

 Niitt, Thos. (the late) . 



O. 



Ornamental zinc cover 



Pasturage for bees 



honey yielding 



flowers . 



wild flowers best . 



Poison of sting 



Pollen, food for infant- 

 bees .... 



how collected 193, 



-r-»— brush (Plate i, 

 fig. I, zb.) 



basket, zb*, de- 

 scription of . . +1 



Putting in super-hives 

 and bell-glasses, 56, 64, 65, 

 72, 79, 81, 83, no, 113 



Propolis, or bees' cement. 195 



Q. 



Queen (Plate i, fig. i), 



description of . . 4 



movements of, lay- 

 ing eggs ... 5 



s. 



43 



Spiracles 



Spring, good time to 

 commence bee-keep- 

 ing . . . . zi 



Sprinkling bees . 146,165 



Stands for hives — 



6z, 69 



• 84 



Woodbury . 54, 94 



Stewarton hive, see Bee- 

 hives. 



■ engravings 

 • for Nutt's 



