370 INDEX. 
Slate for journal, 108. 
Slides or dividers, 58, 64, 93, 103. 
Smell, seat of, 18; bees know each 
other Py, 19, 223, 499; know of 
stinging by, 168. 
Bee bad or strong 
158, 167. 
Smith, Mr. C. W., 140. 
Smith, Mr. Freceric, 321, 347. 
Smith, Dr. Wm , 302, 329 
Smokers, 215-217. 
Smyrnean bees, 44. 
Snails, 74. 
Snow, to be cleared away, 234; 
reflection from, 235, 238. 
“Song of the Bees,” 175, 
South-east aspect recommended, 157 
Southey’s lines, ‘Thou busy, busy 
hee,” 285. 
Spatulas, 202. 
Spermatheca, 26, 31. 
eae 27; 
Spiders, 159, 188. 
Spinola, Marquis cde, 35. 
Spitzner, 255, 
Sporting before hive, 16. 
Pps , need of supplies for, 212; 
i i 3; fee ving in, 
ls in, 339. 
Sprinkling bees with scent, £0, 220; 
with sugared ale, 221. 
Stewarton, hive, 84, 1358, 223; slides, 
97, 113, 137; supers, superiority 
of, 332, 
Stic 3 
Stimulating feeding, 210. 
Sting, of queen, 5,328; of workers,1] 4. 
Stinging, when to be apprehended, 
156, 167, 1 rare at swarming, 
156, 290, 308; precautions ayainst, 
164, 167§; remedics for, 1668; 
ancient specific, 302; dispositions 
of different varieties as to, 327 ; 
by queen, 328. 
Stock-hive, 65. 
“Stockings” of bees, 183. 
Stocks, strong, 50, 227; the most 
irascible, 189, 225; meaning of 
term, ee which best for depriy- 
ing, 227; ; driven bees make strony- 
est, 233. 
g, objectionable, 
Storifying, 51; up to eight or ten 
boxes, 139. 
Strange bees—see Intruders. 
Straw compared with wood, 52, 62, 
81; with glass, 191. 
Stupefying bees, 218; objections to, 
222, 262. 
Sugar, how far suited to hees, 
rstallisable, &e., ib., 27% 
ject of converting honey into, 
| 346. 
Sun, direct rays of, to be excluded, 
| 154; in winter lures bees out, 
| 238; makes less tractable, 290 ; 
swarms must be sheltered from, 
305. 
Supers, defined, 51; detached hy 
passing wire beneath, 59, 198 ; 
bell-glass, 60, 189$ ; of straw, 60, 
| 191; first uppermost, 60, 95 (ut 
cep. 540); applying, 57, 66, 96, 
188, 2828, 340; should be covered, 
60, 61, 70, 191; removing, 61, 
189, 194, 195§ ; for frame hives, 
91, 95; of glass, 91, 104; exit 
from, 104, 340; Lee’s, 113; shal- 
low, 114; sectional—see Sections ; 
divisional, 116, 118, 121; as venti- 
| lators, 188 impor tance of warmth 
in. 191,283; raising edges of, when 
too warm, 191, 284; temporarily 
removing, in bad weather, 340. 
| Supplying new queens, 3188. 
Suspenders, zine, for frames, 103 
109. 
Swammerdam, 5. 
Swarming, how it affects re: wring of 
princesses and life of drones, 23; 
and depriving systems, 468 ; lx 
placed high fy long distance in, 
151; stinging rare during, 156,290, 
303; arr: ment of hives at 
time of, 226 ; how far preventable, 
283, 305; time, conditions, and 
signs of, 286$; causes of delay in, 
288 ; limit of term of, 294: : 
ultimate causes of, 305 3 irreeilar 
issues for, 306: artifici: 310s 
(see also 48-51); anomalies in, 
328. See also Swarms. 
| Swarming board, 179, 308. 
