CONTENTS. 



Part II. 



THE APIAHT, ITS CAKE AND MAN- 

 AGEMENT. 



INTRODUCTION.— p. 301. 



Starting an Apiary. 



Preparation, Read a Good Man- 

 ual, Visit Some Apiarist, Take a 

 College Course, Decide on a Plan, 

 How to Procure First Colonies^ 

 Kind of Bees to Purchase, In What 

 Kind of Hives, When to Purchase, 

 How Much to Pay, Where to Locate 



CHAPTER V— p. 207, 



Hives and Secilo^ts. 



Box-Hives, Movable-Comb Hives, 

 Early Frame Hives, The Langstroth 

 Hive, Character of the Hive, What 

 Style to Adopt, The Heddon Sur- 

 plus-Case, The Cover, Division- 

 ijoard, Cloth Covers, The New 

 Heddon Hive, The Frames, A Block 

 for Making Frames, Cover for 

 Frames, the Huber Hive, Observa- 

 tory Hive, Apparatusfor Procuring 

 Comb Honey, Surplus Comb Honey 

 in Sections, How to Place Sections 

 in Position, Sections in Frames, 

 Crates or Racks, Fences, Separa- 

 tors, Foot-Power Saw. 



CHAPTER VI.— p. 253. 

 Posltionand Arran'jcynent of Apiary 



Position, Arrangemcntof Grounds, 

 Preparation for Each Colony. 



CHAPTER VII.— p. 2.58. 



To Transfer Bees. 



The Old Method, Hunting Bee- 

 Trees. 



CHAPTER VIII.— p. 264. 



Feeding aiid Feeders. 



What to Feed, How to Feed, 

 Smith Feeder. 



CHAPTER IX.— p. 273. 



Queen- Re aring . 



How to Rear Queens, Nuclei, 

 Queen Lamp-Nursery, Shall We 

 Clip the Queen's Wing ? Laying 

 Workers, Queen Register, or Api- 

 ary Register. 



CHAPTER X.— p. 293. 



Increa.'ie of Colonies. 



Swarming, Hiving Swarms, To 

 Prevent Second Swarms, To Pre- 

 vent Swarming, Artificial Increase, 

 How to Divide, Capturing Abscond- 

 ing Swarms. 



CHAPTER XI.— p. 306. 



Italians and Italianizing. 



The New Races of Bees, What 

 Bees Shall We Keep ? How to Ital- 

 ianize, How to Introduce a Queen, 

 Valentine's Comb Stand, To Get 

 Our Italian -Queens, To Ship 

 Queens, The " Good " Candy, Prep- 

 arations to Ship, To Move Colonies. 



CHAPTER XII.— p. 321. 

 Extracting, and the Extraetor. 



Honey-Extractor, Desirable Points 

 in an Extractor, Use of Extractor, 

 When to Use the Extractor, To 

 Keep Extracted Honey. 



CHAPTER XIII.— p. 335. 



Wm-king for Comb Honey. 



Points to Consider, To Secure 

 Strong Colonies, To Avoid the 

 Swarming Fever, Adjustment of 

 Sections, Getting Bees into Sec- 

 tions, Removal of Sections. 



