XU. CONTENTS. 



V. HOW TO OBTAIN GOOD WORKING STOCK .. 48 



Secret of Successful Honey Production— To Obtain Good 

 Stock — Queens cannot be too Prolific— The Equivalent 

 of Swarming— Most Suitable Bees. 



VI. PLANTING FOR BEES— Area required for 100 Colonies 53 



Plants should be Grown that are Useful for Hay — For a 

 Succession — Late Forage Undesirable — Cultivation — 

 Systematic Planting makes Profits certain. 



VII. THE AGRICULTURIST AND FRUIT GROWER. 59 

 Fruit Culture 



VIII. ENEMIES AND DISEASES OF BEES— Foul Brood . . 62 



Chilled Brood and Simple Dead Brood — Cheshire Cure for 

 Foul Brood — Rational and Simple Cures — My Own 

 Experience — Caution — Another Plan of Immediate 

 Renovation— Change of Queens as an Aid in Subduing 

 the Disease — Dysentery — Prevention — Another Item. 



IX. MODERN HIVES ; HOW CONSTRUCTED AND 



FURNISHED 70 



Economic Hive— The Cover — The Conqueror Hive — A 

 Commercial Standard— Super Crates — Space between 

 the Sections and Top Bars — Super Crates — Sections 

 — Folding Sections — Simmins' Bee-Space Sections — 

 Separators — No space between Supers — Completely 

 Divided Sections. 



X. COMB FOUNDATION ga 



How to Insert in Frames and Sections — Simmins' Divided 

 Section and Holder — Melting the Wax — Other Plans — 

 Where Swarms are Hived upon Foundation — Wiring the 

 Frames — Simple Imbedder — Sections should be filled. 



XI. HOW TO STOCK THE FRAME HIVE loi ' 



Best Time to Transfer — Other Plans of Transfering. 



XII. GENERAL MANAGEMENT 104 



Autumn : Unite Stocks of Doubtful Strength — What is a 

 Strong Stock ? —Winter : Position of Frames — Space 

 below the Frames — Covering above Frames — A Perfect 

 Winter Arrangement — Spring— Summer — The Doubling 

 System — Comb Honey — Extracted Honey — Surplus 

 Combs — A Great Evil. 



XIII. SIMMINS' NON-SWARMING SYSTEM— -The-Working 



of New Combs. 114 



True Principle of Management — Worked-Out Combs for 

 Sections — Swarm Attachments. 



