CONTENTS. Xm. 



XIV. THE PRODUCTION OF HONEY 12a 



Extracted Honey — Bottled Honey— Sealing Wax ; Colour 

 — Waxing the Bottles — Canned Honey — Provide for 

 Extracting — Spare Combs — Bee Traps — Extracting 

 Machine — Uncapping Can — Uncapping Knife — Rate of 

 Speed— Combs containing Brood — Storage— To Prevent 

 Granulation — Crates — Extractors — Exhibition : Comb- 

 Honey — Sections : Preparing Stocks for Comb-Honey — 

 Why the Brood Nest should not be Extended— An 

 Exception — First Honey Flow— Remove Sections — 

 Grading ^The Store Room — Preparing for Market — 

 Selling Honey. 



XV. QUEEN REARING .. .. , 143 



The Plan often Recommended— My Own Plan — Another 

 Method— The Cell Nufsery — Qiieen Nursery — The 

 Lamp Nursery-rNuclei — Virgin Queen Cage — Surplus 

 Virgin Queens — Folly of Keeping Young Queens Con- 

 fined — Supplying all Hives with Young Queens — The 

 Young Queens'— Eggs for Queen Raising— Drones. 



XVI. INTRODUCTION OF ALIEN QUEENS TO STOCKS.. 157 



Finding the Queen — Introduction by Caging — Direct 

 Introduction — " Comb Method " — •" Fasting Method " — 

 Mr. Pond's Method — Introduction by Chloroform^ 

 Covering Queens with Honey — Running in at Entrance 

 — Nucleus Method — Colonies long Queenless — Virgin 

 Queens — Queens Dying in Cag6 — Loss of Queens — 

 .^ Direct Introduction Proved. 



XVII. INCREASE AND ITS RELATION TO PROFITS . . 169 



Dividing — Contraction — Natural Increase — Swarming 

 without Increase — Prevent After-Swarms — Securing a 

 Profit in Poor Seasons. 



XVIIL FEEDING AND FEEDERS 174. 



Dry Sugar Feeding — Syrup Feeders — Simmins' Syrup 



' Frame Feeder— Circular " Amateur " — Bottle Feeders — 



■ Feeding without Feeders— Candy — No Feeding in 



Winter — Making Candy — Outdoor Feeding — During 



Spring — In Autumn — Most Suitable Feeder. 



XIX. BUYING, PACKING, AND MOVING BEES .. ..184. 



Packing Stocks — When Delivered on Rail — For Export — 

 Receipt of the Bees— Packing Queens— Benton Cage — 

 The Food — Inserting the Bees — Packing Swarms — 

 Weighing Bees — Three-Frame Nuclei — Standard Colo- 



XX. HOUSE APIARIES, STORE ROOMS, &c 193, 



The Workshop— The Window — Honey Room— The 

 Covered Apiary-rThe Hives under Cover — The Advan- 

 tages — Bee-Houses sc-called. 



