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INDEX 



Caging the queen, 80, 123 

 Canada thistle, 278, 282 

 Candied honey, 100, 187 



how to liquefy, 187 

 Candy, 122 



how to make, 122, 142 

 Cape broom, 235 

 Cape weed, 235 

 Carbolic acid, 157 

 Carniolan bees, 8 

 Carrob bean, 235 

 Cartons for comb-honey, 99 

 Cast larval-skins, 45 

 Castor oil plant, 238 

 Catering for special trade, 100 

 Catching swarms, 80, 84 

 Cedar tree, 237 

 Cell-cups, US' 

 Cell-protectors, 110 

 Cells, drone, 35, 219 



holders, 115 



how to make, 113 



queen, 68, 103 



ripe, 73, 105 



size of, 35, 219 



transition, 219 



worker, 35, 219 

 Centrifugal force, 62 

 Chaff-hives, 177 

 Cheshire, Rev. F., 35 

 Chicory, 235 

 Chilled brood, 159 

 Chitine, 4, 154 

 Chunk honey, 100 

 Chyme-stomach, 4, 112 

 Cider gum, 251 

 Cleaning honey-tins, 189 

 Clematis, 235 

 Clipping queens, 73 

 Clover, 6, 9, 237 



Alsike, 238 



crimson, 238 



red, 237 



strawberry, 238 



sweet, 247 



white, 237 

 Clover-fields, 9, 245 

 Clover-honey, 237, 245 

 Clustered bees, 43, 87, 100 

 Cocoon, 107 



Cold weather, 100, 177, 196 

 Colony of bees, 7 

 Colour of comb, 45 

 Colour of honey, 242, 245 

 Colour of pollen, 208, 263, 283 

 Colour of wax, 208 

 Comb, construction of, 46 



disensed, 54, 155 



drone, 35, 43 



face, 50 



foundation, 35, 92, 213 



guides, 92 



honey, 92, 94, 99, 100 



how to uncap, 56 



or extracted honey, 47 



number of cells, 35, 206 



prepared for queen-rearing. 111 



sections, 94 



showing change of pattern, 219 



storage, 96, 169 



worker, 35, 43 

 Comb-honey supers, 28, 89 

 Compound eyes, 2 

 Concrete honey-house, 15 

 Construction of honey-house, 14, 71 



Contracting the hive, 97, 179 



Coolibah, 244, 251 



Corrugated card-board boxes, 99 



Cotton bush, 235 



Crossbred bees, 1 



Curing foul-brood, 156 



Cut comb, 100 



Cutting out queen-cells, 112, 132 



Cyprian bees, 1 



Dandelion, 238, 245 



Dark coloured clothes, 4, 5 



Date palm, 239 



Dead brood, 159 



Demonstrations at shows, etc., 201 



Destroying ants, 148 



Detachable screens, 222 



Development of brood, 43 



comb-honey, 94 



disease, 156 

 Device, Beuhne, 59 



uncapping, 57 

 Dextrose, 187 



Difficulty of finding virgin queens, 106 

 Dipping boards, 213 

 Diseased bees, 158 

 Diseases, 54 



Disposal of surplus brood, 84 

 Distance bees fly, 71, 129, 166 

 Distance between comb faces, 56 

 Divisible hive, 30 

 Division-boards, 121 

 Doolittle feeder, 145 



system, 113 

 Dorfble-walled hive, 177 

 Dovetailed hive, 26 

 Draining tank, 61 

 Drawn comb, 96 

 Drone capping, 43 

 Drone cells, 35, 43 

 Drone comb, 35, 219 



Drones, do not gather honey, 8, 36, 106 

 Drone eggs, 109 

 Drone-laying queens, 102 

 Drone-traps, 75 

 Drumming on hive, 42 

 Dysenteric bees, 159 

 Dzierzon's theory, 170 



Easy plan to find queen, 74 



Egg diet, 128 



Eggs, do not always hatch, 109 



for queen rearing, 113 



hatch on third day, 46, 104 



how many kinds, 103 



producing system, 4 

 Embedder, 38 



Emergency queen-cells, 108 

 Enemies, birds, 145 



mice, 151 



of bees, 145 



spiders, 148 

 Entrances, 39, 79, 86, 101, 121 

 Epacris, 239 

 Eri6a, 239 



Ericacese, poisonous, 240 

 Escapes for bees, 16, 97 

 Eucalypts, 9, 125, 240-286 

 European foul-brood, 158 

 European heather, 239 

 Excluders, 95, 114 

 Exhausted queens, 195 

 Exhibition duplicity, 204 



points, 204 



