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INDEX. 



R. 



TAOE. 



EoUer, engraved pressing : — 



Description of - - - 69 



Application of - - - 69, 70 



Eoyal Agricultural Society's Show 48, 136, 



127, 128 



S. 



Spring, time to begin bee-lceeping - 11 

 Spring, Firsi flight of bees in, a poem 116, 1 17 



Sprinkling bees .... 77 



Stand for hives, engraving 24, 28, 36, 42 



Sticks in hives not necessary - 115 



Super for bar and frame hives 41 

 Bell glass (see Glasses) 



Straw .... 35, 36 

 Straw hives : 



Advantage of . - - 84 



Preference for - - - 34, 37 

 Swarming : — 



Usual time of year for - 11 



Cause of - - - 11 



Agitation before . - - 12 



Provisioning for - - 12 



Usual time of day for - - - 13 



Poetical description of - - 13 



Ringing on occasion of, needless - 13 



Desirable to prevent - - 16 

 Swarms : — 



Devices for inducing settlement of 13 



Consequences of a second flight - 14 



Means of preventing ditto - 14 

 Two sometimes depart at same 



time and mingle - - 14 

 Necessity of having hives in readi- 

 ness ..... 14 



Bee dress essential 



15 



PLOB» 



Time for removing - - - 15 



Care to be exercised when confined 



18, 24, 25, 29, 30 

 First swarms most valuable . - 16 

 Second, cause of . - - 16 



Premonitory symptoms - . 16 



Royal wailing indicative of 16 



Numerical composition of - - 15 



Third, name of . - - 16 



Fourth, name of - - - 16 



Care required to prevent loss of 14, 109 



T. 

 Taking honey, mode of - . 21, 22 



Thomson's " Seasons," extract from, 



on murdered bees - . 11 



Ventilation 



17, 18, 20, 21, 115 



W. 



Wasps, how to prevent the increase 

 of 106, 



Season 1864 productive of - 

 Water essential ... 



Mismanagemt of, during voyage . 

 Weighing hives, importance of . 



Salter's spriug balance best - 



How to judge of quantity without 

 Windows, objections to . . 

 Wadman . ... 



Marvellous feats of - - 



Secret of success ... 

 Worker bee : — 



Description of - - 



Sex of .... . 



Number in hive ... 



Young ones, employment of 



107 



107 



94 



101 



102 

 103 

 103 



S 

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