CONTENTS. 



CHAP, PAGE. 



I. BEE-CULTURE AS A PROFESSION i 



Serve in some Well-Established Apiary — Obtaining the 

 Necessary Materials — The Choice of Location — Grow 

 suitable Crops— What Amount of Capital should be 

 Invested — Estimated Expenses for First Two Years — 

 Number of Colonies— Average Yields per Hive — What 

 Kind of Honey to Produce — One Point of the Greatest 

 Importance — Bees Moved in April — Sale of Bees and 

 Queens — ^The Manufacture of Appliances — Bee-Keeping 

 for Recreation. 



II. HOW TO HANDLE BEES— Precaution against Robbing i6 



Robbing Mania — Why Clustering Swarms do not Sting — 

 To Drive and Transfer Bees — Bumping — Throwing — 

 Manipulating Bees in Frame-Hives — Uniting — Agents 

 used in Quieting Bees — Gloves — Veils — Sweetened 

 Water. - - 



III. THE ECONOMY OF THE HIVE .. 25 



Substitute for Pollen ; Water Supply, &c.-^Young Bees 

 take their Share of Work — How the Honey is Stored — 

 Royal dells — Condition of a Colony Nearlng the Swarm- 

 ing Point — Securing the Swarm — Hatching of the Young 

 Queens. 



IV. VARIETIES OF BEES ; THEIR . CHARACTER AND 

 DISPOSITION 



Thef Black or Native Bees— Perpetuating their Working 

 Qualities — Ligurian, or Italian Alp Bees — Carniolans — 

 Good Temper — Cyprians — Syrians — Palestines — Other 

 Varieties. 



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