X CONTENTS. 



Chapter V. 

 HOW TO MAKE A START IN BEE-KEEPING 



What to Buy — How to Hive a Swarm — Comb-Foundation — Why 

 Foundation is Used — How to fix Foundation in Frames 

 — Wiring Foundation into Frames . . pp. 24—29 



Chaptee VL 

 MANIPULATING BEES. 



What to do when Stung — Bee Veils — Gloves — Gorging the Bees- 

 Smoking — How to Manipulate — Manipulating a Full Hive — 

 Quieting Bees with Carbolic Acid . , . pp. 30 — 34 



Chapter VII. 



THE PRODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 



Sections — Section Crates — Frames of Sections — Dividers — When to 

 Super — Raising the Super — Taking off the Super — Packing 

 Sections — Strong Stocks Indispensable — How to Unite — How 

 to find tiie Queen— Swarming pp.35 — 44 



Chaptee VIIL 

 THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 



How to Produce Combs — Doubling — Extracting — The Extractor 

 — Storing Combs in Winter — Ripening and Bottling — Shallow 

 Frames — Heather Honey pp. 45—50 



Chaptee IX. 



THE PROFITABLE PRODUCTION OF BEES. 



Natural Methods of Increase — Stimulative Feeding— Spreading the 

 Brood — Truant Swarms — Building up the Stocks — I'rofit and 

 Loss — Begin with One Stock — Artificial Methods of Increase 

 — Give the Bees Plenty of Room — Queen-raising — Forming 

 Nuclei — Fixing the Queen Cells — Breed Queens from the Best 

 Stock in the Apiary — Building up the Nuclei — Profit and 

 Loss — Economy pp. 51—66 



