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INDEX 



Sections in super, 28, 90, 99 



miniature, 100 



of comb, 94, 100 



one-piece, 28, 90 



unfinished, 99 



unmarketable, 90, 91 

 Selecting queen-cells, 69, 107 

 Self-spacing frames, 29 

 Selling extracted honey, 191 

 Selling price of comb honey, 47, 100 

 Sense of bees, 4 

 Separators, 28, 89 

 Shade, 79, 86 



Shaking bees off combs, 53 

 Shallow bodies, 30 

 Shallow frames, 29, 31 



supers, 48, 89 

 Shed for protection from sun, 86 

 Sheep in apiary, 12, 39 

 Sheep's sorrel, 281 

 Shelter for apiary, 71, 86 

 Sheoke, 281 

 Silky oak, 281 

 Silver top, 243, 262 

 Simplicity frames, 29 

 Size of cells, 35, 219 

 Size of sections, 28, 89, 91 

 Small honey house, 14, 17, 72 

 Smelter for wax, 37 

 Smoker, 20, 45 



fuel, 21 



how to light, 21 



Root's, 21 

 Smooth bell, 281 

 Smothering of bees, 81, 85 

 Snap gum, 243, 263 

 Soldering, directions for, 190 

 Soldering fluid, 191 

 Soldering iron, 190 

 Spare combs, 169 

 Species, 1 



Spermatozoa, 103, 194 

 Spiders, 148 

 Spiracles, 3, 85 

 Spoon for hot wax, 36 

 Spotted gum. New South Wales, 261 



Queensland, 261 



Victoria, 243, 261 

 Spraying fruit blossoms, 152 

 Spraying water on swarms, 86 

 Spring, 1 



Spring dwindling, 161 

 Spring work in apiary, 70 

 Standardization of supplies, 26 

 Staples, 197 



Starting bee-culture, 9, 40 

 Starved bees, 78 

 Steam, 183 



Steam wax extractor, 210 

 Sting, 2, 3, 4 



effect of, 108 



how it works, 2, 3 



penetrates leather, 4 



poison of, 3 



structure of, 2 

 Stocking outyards, 40 

 Stomach of bee, 4, 126 



mouth, 4 

 Storage for comb, 18, 43 

 Storage tanks, 67 

 Stores, 179 



amount of, 179 



for winter, 180 

 Strainers, 2, 18 

 Stringybark, 243 



Stringybark, brown, 243, 260 



Gippsland, 260 



red, 259 



Tasmanian, 261 



yellow, 260 

 Sugar, 140, 143 

 Sugar gum, 242, 262 

 Sugar syrup, 140 

 Sulphuric acid, 212 

 Summer, 78 

 Sunflowers, 270 

 Super, 17, 89, 112, 114, 121 



crosswise of brood- chamber, 49 



for comb-honey, 89 



for extracted-honey, 25, 49 



for queen-rearing, 121 



to remove, 17, 97 

 Supercession of queens, 70, 110, 166 



when performed, 70, 166 

 Supers, how to take into honey-house, 17 



how to store, 169 



when necessary, 47 

 Swamp gum, 242, 261 

 Swarm- catcher, 8 5 

 Swarm control, 78 



deserting hive, 78 



leaves queen-cells, 80 



number of queens in, 124 



temper of, 4, 85, 137 

 Swarming and locality, 79 



box, 81 



cells, 83, 103 



instinct, 79 



prevention of, 79 



signs of, 80 



time of, 79 

 Swarms, "78 



absconding, 78 



and introduction of queens, 88 



and strange queens, 88 



artificial, 120 



how to hive, 3, 81, 85 



how they cluster, 82 



hungry, 78, 86 



issue of, 78 



number of, 78, 79 



return to hive, 80 



select a future domicile, 78 



to prevent deserting, 73, 80, 85 



to travel, 81 

 Systematic records, 200 



Tallow-wood, 243, 263 

 Tanks, 52, 67 



for storage, 67 



how to empty, 13, 63 

 Tea tree, 243, 283 

 Temperature of honey, 196 



of swarm, 46, 177, 207 



of wax, 213 

 Thistles, 245, 282 

 Thorax, 4, 134 

 Tiering up, 69, 80, 121 

 Time to put on supers, 47, 93 

 Tin packages for honey, 187 

 To get bees to work, 93 

 To get cells accepted, 112 

 To remove black or old queens, 74 

 Tongue of bee, 2, 136 

 Tools, 22 

 Trachea, 3, 85 



Transferring from box hives, 40 

 Transferring larvae, 109 



suitable time for, 44 



