INDEX 



289 



Exotics, 266 



Extracted honey, working for, 48, 67 



Extracting barrow, 52 



house, 13-19 



tools, 51 

 Extractors, hand, 63 



how to anchor, 65 



power, 65 

 Bye of bee, 2 



Fancy comb-honey, 100 

 Panning, 177 



Fastening foundation, 34, 92 

 Feeders, 140 



Alexander's, 142 



division board, 141 



Doolittle, 141 



vacuum, 142 

 Feeding bees, 104, 139 

 Feeding in winter, 178 

 Fence separators, 28, 89 

 Fencing, 13, 72 

 Fermentation of honey, 173 

 Fertile workers, 170 

 Fertilisation of queens, 105 

 Finding black queens, 74 

 Finding the queen, 74 

 Fireweed, 267 

 Flatweed, 267 



Flavour of honey, 228, 246, 273 

 Flax lily, 245, 269 

 Flight, 1, 71, 105 

 Flooded gums, 252 

 Flora, indigenous, 226, 241 

 Flowers, fertilised by bees, 6, 275 

 Folding sections, 91 

 Food for larv£e, 46, 104 

 Formalin, 148 

 Formic acid, 3, 160, 247 

 Foul brood, 23, 153 



symptoms of, 154 



treatment for, 156 



very infectious, 23, 157 

 Foundation, 34, 213 



brood, 34 



cutting, 216 



for sections, 34, 91 



how to fasten, 36, 37, 91 



how to stay and strengthen, 34 



its use, 36, 218 



starters of, 91 



stretching, 34 



temperature to work, 38, 213 



thin surplus, 34, 92 

 Frames, Bolton or Heddon, 29 



how to fasten for travel, 222 



how to manipulate, 44, 220 



how to nail, 32 



Langstroth, 24 



self spacing, 29 



simplicity, 29 



unspaced, 30 



wired, 32 

 Fruit blossoms, 152, 268 

 Fruit trees, 152, 267 

 Fuel for sniokers, 21 

 Fumigating by gas, 148 

 Furze, 267 



Galvanised iron for buildings, 17 



for hive covers, 28 

 Garden flowers, 2 69 



Getting bees out of supers, 53 



Glass hive, 203 



nuclei, 202 

 Golden bees, 8 



pennants, 269 



spray, 269 

 Granulation, 187 



how caused, 187 



to prevent, 185 

 Grey box, 243, 252 

 Grey gum, 252 

 Guides, comb, 36, 92 

 Gum trees, 240, 250 



Handling combs, 45, 219 

 Hawthorn, 271 

 Heather honey, 63 

 Heating honey, 182 

 Heddon hive, 24, 88 

 Hedge, 72, 232 

 Herbs, 271 

 Hibbertias, 271 

 Hive body, 88 



box, 22 



capacity of two patterns, 30 



chaff or double-walled, 177 



covers, 28 



divisible, 24, 30 



dovetailed, 26 



entrance, 27, 28, 79, 86 



glass, 202 



how to open, 44 



Langstroth, 26 



observatory, 203 



painting, 198 



patent, 23, 24 



records of, 200 

 Hives, arrangement of, 12, 13, 3 

 Hives packed for winter, 178 

 Hiving bees on wet combs, 3 



hungry bees, 85 



swarms, 85 

 Hoarhound, 271 

 Hoffman frames, 29 

 Holterman's tram track, 19 

 Honey, 165 



analysis of, 160, 247 



at shows, 201 



beer, 173 



bees, 1 



blending, 183 



colours of, 88, 245 



comb, 47, 88. 91, 219 



composition of, 189 



congealed, 183 



dew, 164 



drinks, 175 



extracted, 47, 48 



extractors, 62-67 



extra floral, 164 



floral, 165 



flows, 9, 226 



houses, 9, 13 



how to clarify, 182 



how to remove, 53, 99 



in sections, 89, 91 



judging, 204 



knives, 54, 55 



locust, 271 



marketing, 47, 99 



mead, 173 



sac, 4, 85 



tanks, 67 



vinegar, 173 



when ripe, 50 



