CONTENTS. 
Introductory Notices ... 
The Queen or Mother Bee 
The Common or Working Bees 
The Drone or Male Bees 
Laws of Reproduction : 
Fertile Workers and Black Fass 
The Italian or Ligurian Bee 
Egyptian and other Foreign Bees ... 
Swarming (or Single Hiving) and Depriving Sirstenie- 
Common Straw (or Single) Hives ... 
Straw Depriving Hives 
Skep Covers... 5 ee ae 
Floor or Hive guns ied re 
Hive Stands or Pedestals Ga 
Wooden Box Hives—without Frames 
Bar Hives 
Frame Hives ... Ses 
(Outer Covering, 99 ; ‘Stand, 102; Recent Feane Hiv es, tb) 
Collateral System we ae wee See 
The Nadir System... ai is ae ae 
The Stewarton System te 
The Divisional System 
Observatory Hives 
Nucleus Hives ro 
Bee Sheds and Higaies- 
Position and Aspect 6 
Bee Pasturage and Number ae ives 
Bee-Protector ... a 
(Remedy for the Sting of a Bee, 166; geen 167. ) 
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