TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PfifipAOE — lutrocluctory 



SECTION I. 



The inhabitants of the hive 

 The queen 

 The drone 

 The worker bee 



Eggs of bees 

 Increase of bees 

 Swarming 



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SECTION II.— Modern Bee-Hives. 



Nutt's Collateral Hive . » 



Neighbour's Improved Single Box Hive 

 Taylor's Amateur Shallow Box or Eight- 

 bar Hive 

 Taylor's Amateur Seven-bar Hive 

 Neighbour's Improved Cottage 

 Improved Cottage - 

 Ladies' Observatory or Crystal Bee-hive 

 Cottagers' Hive for talcing honey iu straw 

 caps without the destruction of the bees 

 Woodbury Bar and Frame Hives : — 

 Wood 



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SECTION III. — ExiEEioR Areangbmenis and Apparatus. 



Bee House to contain two hives - 53 



II II twelve hives • 55 



II II nine hives - 56 



Evening thoughts in January - - S6 



Exterior and interior of an Apiary - 58 



Zinc Cover - - - - - 59 



Ornamental Zinc Cover 59 



Cover of Zinc - - - 60 



BeU Glasses - ... 60 



Taylor's Glass 60 



Payne's Glass - - - 61 



BeU Glass with lid - - - - 61 



Guide Comb for Glasses - - - 61 



The New Bottle Feeder 



Round Bee Feeder 



Zinc Fountain Bee Feeder 



Nutt's Drawer Feeder 



Honey Cutters (13) - 



Fumigator (11) - 



Fumigator (12) - ... 



Bee Dress or Protector 



Engraved Pressing EoEer, for the gui- 

 dance of bees in the construction of 

 honey-comb on the bars - 



Impressed Wax Sheets for artificial comb 



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