INDEX. 371 
Swarms, carry honey with them, 49, 
yadult bees take part in, 
49, 288; time required by, to 
furnish hive, 66; feeding newly 
settled, 174; never return to old 
hive, 272, 305; old queen accom- 
panies first, 287; weight of, 289 ; 
returning of, 10.8, 304 ;evilof many, 
292; issue scouts or pioneers, 296, 
307; entering unoccupied hives 
with combs, 296 ; disliking hive, 
297 ; uniting, 7.$; added to old 
stocks, 299; affinity of, for sh 
other, 300; attracted by dead 
bees or dark cloth, 7.3; maiden, 
3018; preparing hives for, 303 ; 
hiving, i). ; devices to cause to 
settle, 304; divided, tb. ; station- 
ing, ib. ; transferring hives to 
strenythen, 305; feeding, 7. ; 
clustering on trees, 307; brood to 
be supplied to, ib. ; transferring 
from skep to hive, 5083; some 
queens will not lead, 328. See 
also Swarming, After-swarms. 
Syrian or Holy Land bees, 372. 
Syrup, to be given to new swarms, 
174; recipe for, in autumn and 
winter, 205 ; stowed rapidly away, 
ib. ; preserved from candying by 
salieylic acid, 251; for spring and 
summer, 276 ; for stocks left too 
bare of bees, 318. 
Tablets, artificial, 344. 
Tancred, Sir T., 332. 
Tanging, 301. 
Taylor's glasses, 58 ; hive, 65. 
Tea lead, 58. 
Tevetmeier, Mr., 87. 
Temper, of Italians, &c., 89, 41; 
excited at certain times, 167. 
Temperature in winter, 235, 245§ ; 
in early spring, 283§. 
Thatched roofs over hives objection- 
able, 159. 
Thermometers, 64, 66, 246, 288. 
Thurber, Messrs., 342, 372. 
Thuringia, a bee country, 255. 
Tibia of hind leg, 548. 
“ Times,” extract from, 341. 
Toads, 187. 
Tobacco, care requisite in using, 
222; believed injurious, 223, 264. 
Tomtit or titmouse, 186, 239. 
Tongue of bees, 18. 
Torpidity in bees, not usual, 245, 
246. 
Traffic near hives objectionable, 156. 
Transferring, frames, 110, 315; bees 
with combs, 280§ ; swarms, 3088; 
hives, 311, 314, 316. 
Transposing two hives, 204, 320. 
Trees, bees’ natural residence, 54, 
160, 307; high, should not be 
béfore hives, 154. 
Triplets, 51. See also Supers. 
Tupper, Mrs. E. 8., 6, 36, 37, 50. 
Unicomb hive, 83, 145. 
Uniting : stocks, 214§ ; by stupefy- 
ing, 218-222; without stupefying, 
224; in frame hives, 224; choice 
of domicile upon, 225; shifting 
hives previous to, 226 ;—swarims, 
297§ ;—swarms to stocks, 299. 
Unsealed honey to be extracted, 206. 
Unsealing honey to rouse bees, 339. 
Vapour in hives—see Damp. 
Veil, 165. 
Ventilation: by wings, 16, 258, 
264,284 ;—artificial, of supers, 191, 
284; of hives in winter, 242-244; 
neglect of, supposed to cause foul 
brood, 263. 
Ventilators, 64. 
Virgil, 35, 357. 
Virgin, honey, 194; comb, 252. 
Volucella, 350. 
Vulcanite plate, 112, 209. 
Wagener theory, 27. 
Wasps, 187, 203, 279. 
Water, only shallow, should be near 
apiary, 153; to be supplied to bees, 
1858, 248, 274. 
Water-pot, useful for driving bees 
within, 186; for driving robbers 
away, 203. 
Wax, 1758; smell of, attracts bees, 
167, 252; pollen requisite to 
form, 184 ; melting down, 251S. 
Wax sheets, 88, 89; comb founda- 
tions, 88, 344. 
Weather foretold by bees, 285. 
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