INDEX. 



Absconding swarms, 78 

 Acacins or wattles, 230 



false, 232 

 Age of brood, 43, 104, 109 



eggs, 46, 104 



queens 106, 110 

 Alexander's honey-house, 17 

 Alsike clover, 238 

 Americau honey plants, 233 

 Analysis of nectar, 160, 247 



pollen, 2, 6, 7, 129 

 Anatomy of bee, 1, 2, 5, 135 

 Anger of bees, 4, 136 

 Antennae, 2 

 Ants, 4, 148 



how to destroy, 148 



on combs, 148 

 Apiaries Act, 22 

 Apiary,how to move, 73, 221 



how to stock, 40, 71 



location of, 12, 18, 73 



of E. Garrett, 11, 100 



plan of, 39, 72 

 Apis Ligustica, 8, 98, 134 



Mellifica, 1, 98 



Nosema 162 



species of, 1 



Trigonum, 1 

 Appearance of disease, 153 

 Apple box, 243, 250 

 Artificial pollen, 127 

 Aspect of situation, 12, 71 

 Attachment of comb-guides, 36, 92 

 Automatic extractors, 62, 64, 66 

 Automatic separation of wax and honey, 



57 

 Autumn, 153 



Baby nuclei, 120 

 Bacilli and spores, 155 

 Bacillus Alvei, 158 



larvae, 153 

 Balling of queen, 124 

 Banana, 233 

 Barrow tank, 52 

 Basswood, 91, 234 

 Bauera, 233 

 Beans, 234 

 Bee, anatomy of, 1, 5, 135 



Black, 1, 98 



bread, 6, 125 



bush, 51, 171 



Garniolan, 1, 8 



crossbred, 8 



Cyprian, 1, 8 



diseases of the, 153 



eggs, 45, 104, 108 



escape, 52, 97 



hunting, 171 



hybrid, 1, 8, 9, 109 



Italian, 1, 8, 74, 98, 109 



Bee journals, 19, 106, 143, 197, 226 



legislation, 12, 185 



line of flight, 172 



louse, 151 



native, 1, 8 



sting, 4, 108 



veil, 19 

 Beehives, 23-28 

 Bee-moths, 149 

 Bee-shed, 86 

 Bee-space, 24, 90 

 Bees, buying, 40 



can distinguish colours and sounds, 4 



hanging out, 100 



how they grow, 46, 104 



moving, 41, 220, 223 



number in a swarm, 79, 165 



queenless, 137, 170 



to remove from supers, 56, 97 



weight of, 126, 165 



wild, 8, 171 

 Beeswax, 46, 205 



how produced, 46, 206 



how to refine, 208 

 Bell-flower, 281 

 Bingham honey-knife, 54 

 Bingham smoker, 20 

 Birds eat bees, 145 

 Bisulphide of carbon, 150 

 Black bees, 98 

 Blackberry, 234 

 Black box, 243, 250 

 Blackbutt, 243, 251 

 Black locust, 232 

 Blending, 183 

 Bloodwood, 244, 251 

 Blossoms, 6, 152, 246 

 Blue gum, 250 

 Boardraan's feeder, 141 

 Bolton hive, 24, 88, 90, 95 

 Borage, 234 



Bottle-brushes or callistemons, 233 

 Bottom-boards, 27 

 Box-hives, 22, 156, 225 

 Box thorn, 234 

 Braula, 151 

 Breathing holes, 85 

 Briar, 235 

 Brood comb, 46 

 Brood-frames, 43, 155 

 Brood-nest, 83, 153 

 Brushing bees, 54 

 Buckwheat, 234 

 Bugloss, 235 



Buildings, 9, 14, 15, 86 

 Busaria, 235 i 



Bush fire, 12, 86 

 Bush-flowers, 235 



Cabbage gum, 251 



Cages, 74, 77, 117 



introducing, 77 



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