INDEX. 
high at starting, 157; homeward 
lower, ib. ; of young bees first 
time, 160 ; back to old spot, 161, 
226, 237; range of workers’,163 ; in 
winter, 204, 238 ; first, after hiy ing, 
304. See also Wedding tlights. 
Flight-holes, 73-76, 107 ; contraction 
of, 187, 20%, 234, 244, 
Floor-boards, 738, 106-108; clean- 
ing, 2798. 
“Floral World,” 332, 
Flowers, fertilised by bees, 18, 183; 
those desirable to cultivate, 162. 
Food—see Feeding, Syrup, &e. 
Foreign bees, 438, 8278, 4458, 372. 
Foul brood, apple blossoms suspected 
of causing, 162, 261; the uncon- 
tagious, 254, 265; the contagious, 
255$ ; the two compared, 265, 
Fowls—see Poultry. 
Frail—see Bast. 
Frame hives, 87§; advantages of, 
98, 224, 227, 313, #14, 
Neighbours’, 103-105, 115; Che- 
shire, 105 ; Philadelphia, 115; how | 
to place, on a par with skeps as to 
wintering, 240. 
Frames, intervals between, 8); 
construction of, 7b., 88, 90; inven- 
tion of, 87; wedge-shaped, 90 ; 
resting on strips of zinc, 103, 109; 
in supers, 104; Woodbury, 109: 
transferring and adding, 110, 315; 
removing, 192; outer ones trans- 
posed or removed in winter, 240 ; 
gaps between, cause exertions, 
315 (cp. 114 as to supers); for 
sections, 430§. See also Bars. 
Fuming, 2148; suspected of being 
injurious, 222, 262; honey taken 
by, 226. 
Fungus, in fuming, 218; in stomach 
of bees, 262. 
Gaps incentives to exertion: in 
frames, 114; in supers, 315. 
Gauge for frames, 85. 
Gelieu, M. Jonas, cited, 46, 54, 62, 
160, 185, 210, 211, 237, 241, 27a, 
304; his “‘ Bee-Preserver,” 46. 
German, hives, 84, 332§; bee-houses, 
151. 
815; 
365 
Glass, compared with straw, 191. 
See also Bell-glasses, Observatory 
hives. , 
| Gloves, 165. 
Golding, Mr. Robert, cited, 12, 53, 
58, 172, 187, 197, 229, 292, 294, 
300, 312; his “Shilling Bee- 
Book,” 313. 
Gordon, Mr. Robert, 326. 
Grating in crown-board, 95. 
Grecian bees, 327. 
Guard round queen a fiction, 14 (ep. 
456, poetry). 
Guide-comb, 88, 190. 
Giinther, 45. 
Hackles, 67. 
Hand not to be waved or pointed at 
bees, 168. 
Hayrick covers, 192. 
Hearing, seat of, 18. 
Heat, conducted slowly by air, 108; 
honey a source of, 184, 212. 
Heath bees, 44, 45, 46. 
Hermann, M., 34. 
Herzegovinian bees, 44, 45, 327. 
| Hibberd, Mr. Shirley, his “Rustic 
| Adornments” cited, 83, 92, 135, 
| 152, 155, 161, 163, 178. 
| Hinges apt to crush bees, 336. 
| Hive-range, 79. 
' Hive-stands, 76§, 102, 108 ; bricks 
| under feet of, 121. 
Hives, common straw or single, 548; 
whether high or broad, 54, 57, 
82; sticks in, 55; plastering, 56; 
straw depriving, 2b.§; painting, 
62; Neighbours’ cottage, 64, 64; 
Taylor's, 64; Lee’s economic and 
octagon, 65; with bars, 7b., 845 ; 
procedure with cottage, 65; 
intervals between, 80; exposed to 
damp, 81; wooden box, tb.S; 
capacity of, 82; German, 54, 
432§; with sloping interior walls, 
90; with double walls, 108 ; 
contracted by dummies, 110; 
collateral, 125$; nadir and nether, 
129§; Stewarton, 135§; Renfrew- 
shire, 159 ; Carr-Stewarton, 140 ; 
nucleus, 7ib., 146§; divisional, 
141§; observatory, 144§; trans- 
