362 
Bar hives, 848. 
Barley-sugar, device with, for ex- 
cluding wasps, 188 ; used as food 
in winter, 246; how to make, 
277 ; how to supply, 278. 
Barricades in flight-holes, 187. 
Bars, fixed, 65, 137; free, 84; in 
supers, 7b.,91, 95; in straw hives, 
86; passage way above, 94; with 
long ends, 103. 
Bast (or frail), 98, 240, 243 (bis). 
Battles, 34, 197, 203, 206, 224, 314. 
See also Royal combats. 
Bec-houses, 1498, 154, 159. 
Bee-keeping, when to begin, 172, 
224, I72. 
Bee-proutector, 164§. 
Bee-traps, 169, 195, 340. 
Beehives—see Hives. 
Bell-glasses, 60, 189§ ; as condensers, 
242; must be kept warm, 283. 
Bellows instead of smokers,195, 216. 
Berlepsch, Baron von, 3; cited, 6, 12, 
27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 36 (bis), 46, 
48, 92, 152, 177, 181, 184, 254, 
255, 257-262, 263, 264, 284, 286, 
289 (bis), 825, 327, 328; intro- 
duced frames, 87 ; his opinion of 
non-German bee-keepers, 332. 
Berlepsch, Baroness von, 223, 262. 
Bevan, Dr., cited, 56, 85, 87, 155, 
176, 187, 194, 195, 287, 293, 301, 
355 ; his ‘‘ Honey Bee,” 87,321. 
“ Bienen-Zeitung,” 45, 262, 264. 
Bilberries producing disease, 255. 
Bingham and Hetherington’s honey- 
knives, 203. 
Birds as bee-enemies, 186. 
Black bees, 31§; term commonly , 
applied in distinction 
“Ttalian,” 38, 43. 
Bleaching wax, 252. 
Blocks for flight-holes, 74, 75. 
from 
Blossoms, apple and mountain ash, | 
suspected, 162, 261. 
Bonner, 23, 255. 
Bonnet, M., 3, 323. 
Bottom-boards—see Floor-boards. 
Bottom feeuing, 206. 
Box hives, 81§. 
Braken, for stuffing quilts, 241. 
INDEX. 
Breath, human, hateful to bees, 168. 
Breathing of bees, 284. 
Breeding, maintained in some de- 
gree all year round, 12, 180; to 
be kept on as late as possible, 213 ; 
this mustcertain with driven bees, 
233; close—see Interbreeding. 
See also Laying. 
Bricks under feet of stand, 121. 
Brimstone system, 54, 199, 227. 
“British Bee Journal,” 22, 30, 41, 
265, 327, 338. 
British Bee-Keepers’ Association, 
235, 248. 
Brood, in supers, 196 ; demands of, 
inearly spring, 212 ; indispossessed 
hives, 229 ; should be supplied to 
new colonies, 307, 318. 
Brougham, Lord, 321. 
‘« Brown bees,” term, 43. 
Burnens, 3, 
Buying bees, 272. 
Carbolic acid, 263, 309. 
Carbonic acid in hive, 286, 243. 
Carniolan bees, 44, 45. 
Carr-Stewarton hive, 140. 
Cells, of queens—see Royal cells ; of 
workers, 15,177; used afterwards 
for honey, &c., 15 ; become con- 
tracted, ib. ; of brood, how known 
from honey, tb., 181; of drones, 
20, 177; whether they govern 
sex, 27 ; for honey made deeper, 
91 ; construction of different 
classes, 177-181; tilted, 177, 281; 
transition, 180; for pollen, 181 ; 
for propolis, 7b. ; too many filled 
with honey, 214, 276. 
Cement for straw covers, 69; for 
windows, 90. 
Chaff in quilts, 241. 
Cheese-boxes used for covers, 123. 
Cheshire, Rev. F. R., cited (chiefly 
from his ‘Practical Bee -Keep- 
ing”), 6, 43, 62, 67, 108, 114, 116, 
122, 183, 184, 209, 212, 226, 233, 
240 (bis), 241, 244, 248 (bis), 252, 
267, 268, 309, 317, 318, 329, 325, 
829, 330; his hive, 105-114 ; 
nucleus hive, 146 ;  pin-trap, 
169; guide-maker, 170; swarming- 
