FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Alfalfa 143 



Balled Queen 87 



Bee-dress 227 



Bees Playing 225 



Bee Working on Red Clover. . 199 



Bottom-rack 37 



Brood of Laying Workers. . . 173 



Busy at the Typewriter 300 



Caged Queen-cell 254 



Carrying with Rope 25, 29 



Catching the Queen 63 



Catnip 153 



Caught 65 



Cleater Smoker 221 



Clipping the Queen 71 



Coggshall Brush 62 



Colonies Home from Out-api- 

 aries 2H1 



Colonies Intended for Out-api- 

 aries 33 



Colony Treated for Swarming 191 



Colossal Ladino Clover 145 



Comb for Queen-cells 257 



Comb for Queen-cells Trimmed 



239, 246 



Comb Resting Diagonal in Hive 106 



Combs of Brood 98 



Combs of Honey 94 



Crock-and-plate Feeder 132 



Cutting Foundatio-n 177 



Dripping-pan Wax-extractor. . 283 



Emptying Out Slumgum 288 



Entrance-block 40 



Entrance-closers 50 



Feeder Sections 261 



Field of RaspbeiTiBs in Bloom 138 



Folding Sections 169 



Foundation with Splint Sup- 

 ports 90 



German Steam Wax-press... 307 



Heartsease 164 



Heddon Slat Honey-board. . . 23 



Heddon Super IH 



Hive Closed for Hauling. . . . 205 



Hive-dummy 129 



Hive-seat with Hand-hole. ... 59 



Hive-seat with Strap-handle.. 56 



Hivsl-stand 115 



Hive-staples 35 



Home from the Out-apiary. . . 74 



Home of the Author 11 



Honey-dishes 315 



Honey-show 277 



Improved iVIiller Queen-cages. 253 



Jumbo Hive 192 



Lifting Off the Super 217 



Linden or Basswood Blossoms 148 



Little Work-table 179 



Load of Forty Supers 187 



Miller Cages 235 



Miller Feeder Dissected 3 24 



Miller Prami^ • 258 



Miller Queen-nursery 241 



Miller Tent-escape 207 



Movable Shade 171 



Muench Hivetool 61 



Nail-boxes 291 



Nucleus Bottom-hoard 248 



Nucleus Hives 250 



One-cent Queen-cage 189 



Original Miller Feeder 119 



Painted Tin Hive-covers 109 



Part of Home Apiary (from 



Northwest) 100 



Part of Home Apiary (from 



Southwest) . . . ." 104 



Peabody Honey-extractor ... 13 



Pile of Stories 195 



Philo Carrying a Hive 32 



Pounding Bees off Comb. ... 78 



Push-board 213 



Pushing Sections out of Super 215 



Putting Foundation in Sections 235 



Queen-cell Stapled on Comb. . 230 



Queen-excluder 167 



Rack for Hauling Bees 46 



Ready for Clipping 67 



Record-books 54 



Robber-bees 223 



Robber-cloth 210 



Rows of Lindens in Bloom. . . 150 



Scraping Sections 267 



Second-class Sections 271 



Sections Ready for Casing. . . 269 



Sections Wedged for Scraping 265 



Set of Honey-dishes 315 



Shop 202 



Starters in Breeding-frame. . 232 



Super-filler 182 



Supers of Sections Blocked up 219 



Swarm Dumped before Hive. 137 



Sweet Glover 140 



Three Asters 171 



Tool-basket 85 



Top and Bottom-starter in 



Section 175 



T Super 20 



Twelve-section Shipping-case . 274 

 Twenty-four-sectiou Shipping- 

 case 276 



Two Asters 159, 161 



Two Carrying with Rope. ... 26 



Unmarketable Sections 263 



Vacated- Queen-cells 256 



Vase of Goldenrod 155 



Wagon-load of Bees 44 



Watering-crock 134 



Weed-brushes 80 



Weighing Colonies 278 



Wheeling Load of Supers. . . . 209 



Wide Frame 16 



Woman's Bee-dress 229 



Zinc Hive-covers Ill 



Wax-press, Screwing Down.. 285 



