LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Magnified pollen grains . . ' 6 

 Queen, drone and worker 



Frontispiece 



An alpine bee-farm . . 10 



A bee-farm in Victoria . . 10 

 Garrett's apiary, Gippsland, 



Victoria . . . . 11 

 Typical Australian bee 



country . . . . 11 

 Part section and elevation 



of honey-house . . 14 



Plan of small honey-house 14 

 Plan of large concrete 



honey-house . . . . 15 



Porter bee-escape . . 16 



How to wear a bee-veil . . 19 



Bingham smoker . . 20 



Hive tools . . . . 22 



Bolton or Heddon hive . . 24 



The Langstroth hive . . 25 



Interior of Bolton hive . . 27 

 Langstroth hive for comb 



honey . . . . 28 



Bolton and Hoffman frames 29 

 Correct position of Hoffman 



frames . . . . 32 



20. Wired " Simplicity " frames 33 



21. Comb foundation . . 35 



22. Grooved frames . . . . 36 



23. Fastening foundation in 



frames . . . . 37 



24. How to group hives . . 39 



25. A section of brood-comb . . 43 



26. An ' ' odd size ' ' super . . 49 



27. Barrow and tank for ex- 



tracting . . . . 51' 



28. Bingham uncapping knife 54 



29. Uncapping can . . . . 55 



30. Section of "Beuhne" device 58 



31. Beuhne device in operation 59 



32. "Geue's" uncapper .. 60 



33. Section of "Geue's" un- 



capper . . . . 61 



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34. Draining tank . , . . 62 



35. Small hand-extractor . . 63 



36. Power extractor 



37. Extractor slip gear 



38. Honey-tank 



39. Plan of out-yard 



40. Mailing cage for queen-bees 



41. Swarming box 



42. Swarm clustered on young 



loquat tree 



43. Hiving a swarm conveni- 



ently settled 



44. Shade board for summer . . 



45. Comb-honey super 



46. • Sections 



47. ' ' Woodburn ' ' section fas- 



tener . . 



48. Evolution of comb honey. . 



49. Cardboard boxes for comb- 



honey 



50. Bees hanging out in hot 



weather 



51. Portion of brood-comb with 



queen-cells 



52. ' ' West ' ' cell-protectors . . 



53. Prepared drone-comb 



54. Queen-cups, and sealed 



queen-cells 



55. Comparative view of 



nucleus-boxes 



56. Cell-frame and nucleus- 



cover 



57. How to transfer larvse 

 57a. Queen-excluder 



58. Baby-nuclei frames 



59. How to clip the queen's 



wings 



60. "Doolittle" Bee-feeder .. 



61. "Thale" vacuum feeder.. 



62. "Alexander" feeder 



63. Bee-eating wood swallow. . 

 63a. Eggs and larvae of wax- 

 moth . . 



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