INDEX 



291 



Packing comb honey, 99, lOD 



honey for market, 99, 191 

 Paint, 198 

 Paper bark, 278 

 Paralysis o( bees, 163 

 Parasites, 151 

 Parthenogenesis, 170 

 Paste for labels, 190 

 Pasture for bees, 9, 166, 241 



regulated by law, 12 

 Patent hives, 23 

 Patersou's curse, 278 

 Pea-flour, 6, 127 

 Pennyroyal, 278 

 Peppermint, 242, 256 

 Pepper-tree, 279 

 Perforated zinc, 68 

 Pink-gum, 243, 256 

 Piping of queen, 105 

 Pitto^porum, 278 

 Plain sections, 89 

 Plan of large honey-house, 13, 18 



small honey-house, 13 



outyard, 13, 71 

 Plan of wheel-barrow, 51 

 Plantain, 278 

 Plants for Honey 226 

 Plants, poisonous, 2, 240, 270 

 Play spell, 102 

 Poison sprays, 152, 268 

 Poisonous ericacejB, 240 

 Pollen, 2, 6, 7, 125 



analysis of, 2, 6, 7, 129 



artificial, 6, 127 



for young bees, 126 



grains, 2, 126 



number of grains, 7 



size of grains, 7 



shortage, 125 



substitutes for, 6, 125 

 Porter bee-escape, 16 

 Preparations for swarming, 78 

 Preliminary work, 34 

 Prickly beauty, 278 

 Prickly pear, 244, 278 

 Produce comb-honey, how to, 88, 91 

 Propolis, 90 



Protection for queen-cells, 110 

 Protection for winter, 176 



from cold winds, 71 

 Pseudo acacia, 232 

 Pure Food Act, 185 



Queen, balling of, 124 

 black, 74 



cells, 71, 103, 104, 107, 118 

 cells on frames, 114 

 cells, when ripe, 69, 107 

 destroys rivals, 108 

 development of, 1, 104 

 drone and worker, 8 

 finding the, 74, 76, 132 

 how to cage, 122 

 how to cut wings of, 133 

 how to handle, 134, 135 

 introduction, 88, 121 

 lost by swarm, 73, 80 

 mating of, 106, 119 

 nursery, 117 

 old, 70, 88, 170 

 period of development, 104 

 pugnacity, 107 

 rearing, 104, 109 

 the perfect female, 7, 47, 102 



Queen, virgin, 88, 102, 106 

 Queen-cells, age of, 104, 105, 106 



emergency, 108 



how to graft. 111, 117 



how to procure, 109, 168 



how to remove, 68, 112 



number of, 68, 112, 168 



preparing. 111 



small, 108, 117 



wasted, 68 



well developed, 103, 114 

 Queen-excluder, 68, 118 

 Queenless bees, 170 

 Queens, eggs fail to hatch, 109, 128 



number of, 105, 110 



oviparous duties, 7, 79, 109 



ovaries, 7, 109 



Range, bee, 12, 166 



Rape, 279 



Raspberry, 279 



Rearing queens, 109 



Record book, 131, 200 



Records of hives, 131, 165, 200 



Red box, 242, 256 



Red gum, 242, 257, 258, 259 



Regulated feeding, 138, 142 



Remedial measures for disease, 54, 122, 



157 

 Removing honey from hives, 52, 97 

 Removing wax, 207 

 Rendering comb, 210 

 Re-queeuing, 71, 108 

 Reserved forest areas, 166 

 Respiration of bee, 3, 180 

 Reversible hive and frames, 30 

 Rewa Rewa, 245, 279 

 Ribbon gum, 259 

 Rice flowers, 279 

 Rights of apiarists, 12, 166 

 Ringing timber, 246, 270 

 Ripe honey, 50 

 Ripe queen-cells, 107, 110 

 Robber-bees, 135, 137 



how to exclude, 53, 136 



persistence of, 136 

 Robber cloth, 53 

 Robbing, 53 

 Ropy foul brood, 154 

 Root Co., Ohio, 21, 100, 168 



extractors, 63, 65 



smoker, 21 

 Royal-jelly, 4, 104, 112, 126 



Sage, 284 



Sagging of foundation, 33, 92 



Sandalwood, 242, 281 



Scarlet gum, 262 



Scent plants, 280 



Scouts from the swarm, 78 



Screw press, 210 



Screens, 224 



Second-hand tins, 185 



Section, beeway, 90 



cartons, 99 



crates, 28, 89 



holders, 91 



plain, 89 



supers, 90 

 Sections and separators, 90 



basswood, 91 



fastening starters in, 92 



hold to fold, 91 



