INDEX, 
board, /b., 308; smoker, 217; trans- 
ferring board, 281; section frame, 
330. 
Chill from stone floor-board, 73. 
Chilled brood, 2548. 
Chloroform as a stupetier, 222. 
Clay prescribed for stings, 302. 
Cleaning, hives, 250§ ; tloor-boarcs, 
2798. 
Clipping queen's wings, 308. 
Cloth spread before hive, 154. 
Clustering outside of hive from heat, 
2845; previous to swarming, 287 ; 
on bush during swarming, 307. 
Cobwebs, 159, 188. 
Cocoons, 15. 
Cohn, Dr., 256, 
Collateral hives. 1253. 
Colours known by bees, 18, 150. 
Columella, 153. 
Comb foundations, 88, 344. 
Combs, in supers worked down to 
bottom, 59 ; melting on stone 
floor-boards, 73 ; from exposure 
to sun, 54, 158, 185; additional, 
worked into interspaces, 88, 91 ; 
contrivances for keeping straight, 
88 ; bow to produce beautiful 
specimens, 91; rapid construc- 
tion of, 174, 177 ; comsumption 
of honey in order to construct, 
176; form, appearance, &c., of, 
177; collapse at 100 degrees, 191, 
288; worked upward imto supers, 
198 ; old heavier than new, 205 ; 
extended for winter store, 210 ; 
thickened by age, 225 ; saving, froin 
empty hives, 7b. ; re - working 
portions of old, ib.; outer, in stock- 
hive often contain pure honey, 
226 ; inner, destitute of honey in 
winter, 240 ; winter passages 
through, <b. ; attached to sides of 
skeps, ib. ; turning mouldy, 241 ; 
melting down, 251§; containing 
fermented honey may cause foul 
brood, 263 ; pruning and excising, 
2808, 294; transferring to new | 
hives, 280§ ; built on bushes, 297, 
307; new ones brittle, 298 ; 
where built quickest, 330. 
363 
Combats—see Royal combats, 
“Communism of dw ellings,” 19. 
Condemned bees, 233. 
Condensers, 241, 339. 
Confectioners’ shops, 153. 
Confinement, pairing under, 41 ; of 
colonies, 226, 237, 318 ; of queen, 
319; in her own hive, 320, 
Conveying bees, 172, 272. 
Copulation—see Pairing, 
Cori, Herr, 327. 
“ Cottage Gardener,” 34. 
Counterfeit bees, 3458. 
“ Country Doctor, A,” 327. 
Covers, of hives : for skeps, 66$; of 
zine, 67, 68, 69-72, 124; of felt, 67 ; 
of straw, 69; for frame hives, 99, 
119; opening as tables, 108 ; 
whether to open behind or at side 
120; hayrick, 122; of cheese- 
boxes, 123 ;—of cells : brood dis- 
tinguished from honey, 15, 181 ; ap- 
pearance of,in foul brood, 268,270 ; 
not touching honey, 331. 
Cowan, Mr. T. W., cited, 203, 205, 
233, 24%, 244, 250, 276; his 
sectional supers, 118; extractor, 
200$; paper on “ Wintering,” 
204, 214, 235 ; on ‘* Foul Brood,” 
268; 0n “Working Bar and Fraie 
Hive,” 3388. 
Crown-boards, 57, 61, 82, 91, ‘2, 
111; mode of fastening, 93 ; re- 
moving, 192§; substituting box 
orempty super, 241,242,338 ;lifting, 
in winter, 244. 
Crushing bees, excites rage, 168. 
Crystal Palace prize supers, 113. 
Cuban practices, 261. 
Cuckoo bees, 345§. 
Curiosities among bees, 34. 
Cyprian bees, 44, 45, 372. 
Dalmatian bees, 327. 
Damp in hives, 81, 236, 241§ ; a 
supposed cause of foul brood, 23. 
Dark, bees to be undisturbed in, 208. 
Dathe, Herr, 45. 
Dead bees, to be removed in winter, 
250; strung together to attract 
swarms, 300. 
Deprivation, 51. 
