366 
posing two, 204, 320; comparison 
of skep and frame, for wintering, 
240; advised to incline slightly 
forwards, 242; leaving open at 
bottom in winter, 244, 338; 
disinfecting, after foul brood, 
266 ; preparing, to receive swarms, 
303; transferring quarters of, 
314, 316. See also Frame hives. 
Hoge, Mr. W. M., 342, 344. 
Holes in crown-board, 58, 85, 93, 
103. 
Home labours, 16. 
Honey, 181§; essential to wax- 
secretion, 49, 174,175;instock-hive 
impure, 66 ; large harvests of, 137, 
158, 341, 343; chemical change in, 
183; gathered from flowers 
promiscuously, unlike pollen, 7b. ; 
virgin, 194 ; sometimes removed 
from super to stock-hive, 195 ; 
smell of, attracts bees, 197; 
thin and fluid at first, 198; spoiled 
by brimstone system, 199; average 
quantities, ib. ; how extracted and 
preserved, ib.; candied, 205, 246; 
unsealed, to be extracted, 206 ; 
artificial sealing of, 7b.; taken 
from stock-hive by fuming, 226 ; 
by driving, 230; Polish and 
American cask, 261; infected 
with foul brood, 269; pouring, 
into hive in spring, 275 ; seldom 
used for feeding, 276 ; collection 
of, promoted by electricity, 284 ; 
sealed latest at hive sides, 330 ; 
unsealing, to rouse bees, 339 ; 
American, production and export- 
ation of, 341§; project of convert- 
ing, into sugar, 345. 
“Honey Bee, The”—see Bevan, 
Langstroth, Samuelson, 
Honey-board, 92. 
Honey-dew, 182. 
Honey-extractor, 2008. 
Honey-knives, 202§ 
Hooker, Mr. J. M., 128. 
Houses, stables, &c, hives within, 
150, 158. See also Bee-houses. 
Hruschka, Herr von, 13, 200. 
Huber, cited, 3, 15 (ter), 22, 23, 33, 
INDEX. 
187, 284, 288, 293, 321, 323, 324; 
his “ Observations on the Natural 
History of Bees,” 16. 
Huish, 164, 187. 
Humming, caused by breathing, 284. 
Humble-bees, 348-351. 
Hungarian bees, 327. 
Hunter, Dr. John, 3, 324. 
Hybrids, 41, 43. 
Hymenoptera, 1, 346. 
Imago, 15. 
Indian bees, 44. 
Insect enemies, 188. 
Iustinct, aberrations of, 328§. 
“ Intellectual Observer,” 345. 
Interbreeding, 21, 312. 
Interregnums in hives, 291, 296, 
Intervals between hives, 80; between 
frames, 85, 90; between frames 
and hive, 88 ; comb worked into, 
ib. ; between frames in supers, 91. 
Intruders often slain, 19, 223; not 
so between swarms and parent 
stocks, 314; nor by any new 
swarms, or young bees, 316 
TInverting hives, 172, 219. 
Italian bees, 1, 34$; have often two 
queens at once, 13 ; service of, in 
proving age of bees, 17; queen 
lays drone eggs in first year, 2), 
801; prove descent of drones 
from mother alone, 29; test of 
their pure breed, 39 (bis); sus- 
pected of thriving by plunder, 
326; and of introducing foul 
brood, ib. (cp. 262); queens, 
price of, in America, 343, 
Italianising, 36, 319; reprobated, 
262, 326. 
Jackson, Mr. F R., 241. 
“Journal of Horticulture,’ 268 
(bis), 306, 326, 330. 
Kensington sections, 118. 
Keys ‘apiarian writer), 293. 
Killing bees, 54, 227. 
Kirby and Spence, 176, 351. 
Krainer (Carniolan) bees, 44. 
Labours, home and field, 16; effect 
of, upon life of bees, 17. 
“ Lanarkshire Bee-Keeper,” 263. 
Landmarks of bees, 273. 
