INDEX. 
for, in frame hives, 315; 
wing, in) own hive, 320; 
peculiar, 827; stinging, ib. 5 sting 
of, supposed to guide eges, 328 ; 
aying several eges in a cell, ib. 
See also Princesses, Reproduction, 
Royal combats, Wedding flights. 
Queen-caves, 37, 40, 148, 319. 
Queen-preventers, 66, 93, 
diameter of openings in, 840. 
Queenless hives, 9, 18, 22, 32. 
Quilts, 97, 248, 339. 
Raitt, My. W., 306. 
Range of tlight—see Flight. 
Raynor, Rev. G., 319. 
Rear of hives,access to, 149, 153, 157. 
Reaumur, 3, 178, 323; the name, 
329. 
Red bees, 34. 
Remedies for stinging, 166§. 
Removing, bees—see Conveying, 
Moving ;—supers, 61, 189, 194, 
195$ ; crown-boards and frames, 
1928. 
“* Renfrewshire 
139, 519, 355. 
Renfrewshire Stewarton, 139. 
Repairs, when to attend to, 274. 
Reproduction, laws of, 258. 
Return of bees to old quarters, 161, 
226, 272. 
Riem, 323. 
Robber bees, 33, 149, 197, 2038, 
279$; transposing hives to per- 
plex, 204, 320. 
Rorl, Mr., 33. 
Royal cells, construction of, 5 
(figures, 6, 148); started upon 
loss of queen, 9, 38; none con- 
structed when swarming super- 
seded, 23; always before swarm- 
ing, 46; transferring, 146; cau- 
tion in handling, 147; guarding 
from queen, ib.; how to obtain, 
ib. ; cut out to prevent swarming, 
283, 300; destroyed if swarming 
postponed, but new ones set on, 
288; no longer guarded when 
swarming over, 295; cut out to 
prevent opposition to new queen, 
320; omission to prepare, 328. 
104 ; 
9¢ 
a4, 
Bee-Keeper,” 
369 
Royal combats, 13; oldest. princess 
victorious in, 295; some queens 
refuse, 328. 
Royal jelly, 10; supposed to incite 
workers to regicide, 32; transfer- 
ring, to worker cell chosen for a 
queen, 147; omitted by bees, 328. 
Runners to floor-board, 107. 
“Rustic Adornments’’—see Hibberd, 
My. Shirley. 
Rye meal used for pollen, 247. 
Sack, for covering in winter, 240. 
Sagot, Abbé, 333. 
Salicylic acid, 256, 265, 270; solu- 
tion of, 205, 250. 
Samuelson’s ‘‘ Honey Bee,” 321. 
Sanders, Messrs. C. J., and Son, 63. 
Schirach, 3, 8, 254, 323. 
Schonfeld, Dr., 256, 263-265. 
Schulze, Jacob, 256. 
Scottish moors, honey from, 137. 
Scouts in swarming, 296, 307, 
Screens from sun, 155, 238. 
Sealing of cells, 180; of pollen, 184 ; 
artificial, 206. 
Section frame, 3308. 
Sectional slides, 137. 
Sections, or sectional supers, 116- 
119; of tin, 118; Kensington, ib. 
Senses of bees, 18. 
Sentinels a fable, 16, 
Separators, 118, 331. 
Sex, not determined by cells, 27 ; 
dissimilarity between male and 
female, of some foreign bees, 354. 
Shade, 185$. 
Shades (covers), 70. 
Shaving, in winter passages, 240. 
“Shilling Bee-Book,” 313. 
Shovel (to feeding-bottle), 112. 
Shrubs useful to alight on, 154. 
Shutters, to windows, 64, 83, 101, 
124, 136 ; to entrance, 107, 116. 
Siebold, Prof. von, 27. 
Silenus stung, 302. 
Silesia, a bee country, 45. 
Simmins, Mr. 8., 141. 
Single-hiving system, 46$. 
Skeps, covers for, 66§; advantages 
of, for wintering, 240. See also 
Hives. 
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