INDEX 



293 



Transferring larvsB, various methods of, 



40, 42 

 Transportation by mail, 123 



by road, 99 



by rail, 99, 224 



in hot weather, 81, 223 



of swarms, 33, 81, 225 

 Travelling box hives, 41, 224 



frame hives, 220 



swarms, 81, 225 

 Treatment of disease, 54, 156 

 Tree clover, 282, 283 

 Tree-lucerne, 282 

 Tree-violet, 282 

 Trigona bees, 1 

 Trumpet-flower, 284 



Uncapping, 56 



can, 55 



device, 59 



knife, 54 



machines, 57-62 

 Unfinished sections, 97 

 Union of swarms, 80 

 Uniting bees, 171 

 Use of foiindation, 38, 93, 157 

 Use of swarm box, 81 



Value of foundation, 218 

 Varieties of acacias, 231 



of bees, 1, 8, 9 



of eucalypts, 241, 250 

 Veils, 19 



how to wear, 20 

 Ventilation, 101 



how performed, 86, 101 

 Vinegar, 173 



barrels, 174 



how it is made, 173 

 Virgin queen, to introduce, 124 

 Virgin queens in a swarm, 85 

 Voice of queen, 105 



Washing tins, 189 

 Water for bees, 144 

 Wattle, 230 

 Wax, analysis of, 209 



bleaching, 212 



cost of, 206 



extractor, 210 



how produced, 46, 205 



moth, 149 



origin of, 46, 206 



points given for, 205 



Wax presses, 57, 210 



pressure necessary to secure, 211 



secretion, 46, 207 



smelter, 37 



specific gravity of, 210 



to mould, 212 



to refine, 212 



to remove from old comb, 210 



when produced, 46, 207 

 Weak colonies, 84 

 Wedge and groove frames, 36 

 "Weed" process, 216 

 •Weeds, 39, 276 



to keep down, 39 

 Weight of queen, 126 



of wax, 206 

 ' 'West' ' cell-protectors, 110 

 Wet combs, 3, 85 

 Wheelbarrow, 52 



how to construct, 53 

 Where to keep bees, 9 

 White box, 242, 265 

 White gum,, 241, 263, 265 

 Wholesale methods, 182 

 Wild bees, 8 

 Wild flowers, 284 

 Wild hop, 284 

 Wild mustard, 274 

 Wild sage, 284 

 Wind-break, 72 

 Windows, 16, 201 

 Wing cutting, 133 

 Wings of bee, 1, 2, 85, 135 

 Winter, 182 



Winter flow of honey, 192 

 Winter stores, 179 

 Wire gauze, 16, 221 

 Wired frames, 32, 33 

 Wooden honey-house, 16 

 Wood-rush, 284 

 Woollybutt, 263 

 Worker bees, 5, 6, 7 



cells, 35, 219 



comb, 35, 120, 219 

 Work in supers, 93 

 Working equipment, 19 



Yate tree, 241, 266 

 Yellow box, 243, 265 

 Yellow wood, 285 

 York gum, 241, 266 

 Young bees, 123 

 Young queen, 73, 119 



Zinc, 68, 119 



