X CONTENTS. 



Chapter V. 



HOW TO MAKE A START IN BEE-KEEPING 



What to Buy — How to Hive a Swarm^Comb-Foundation — Why 

 Foundation is Used — How to fix Foundation in Frames 

 — Wiring Foundation into Frames . . . pp. 24 — -29 



Chapteb VL 

 MANIPULATING BEES. 



What to do when. Stung — Bee Veils — Gloves — Gorging the Bees- 

 Smoking — How to Manipulate — Manipulating a Fall Hive — 

 Quieting Bees with Carbolic Acid . , . pp. 30 — 31 



Chapteb VII. 

 THE PKODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 



Sections — Section Crates — Frames of Sections — Dividers — When to 

 Super — Eaising the Saper — Taking ofE the Super — Packing 

 Sections — Strong Stocks Indispensable — How to Unite — How 

 to find the Queen— Swarming pp. 35 — 44 



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Chaptee VIII. 

 THE PKODUCTION OF EXTEACTED HONEY. 



How to Produce Combs — Doubling — Extracting — The Extractor 

 — Storing Combs in Winter — Eipening and Bottling — Shallow 

 Frames — Heather Honey pp. 45 — 50 



Chapter IX. 

 THE PEOFITABLE PKODUCTION OF BEES. 



Natural Methods of Increase — Stimulative Feeding — Spreading the 

 Brood — Truant Swarms — Building up the Stocks — Profit and 

 Loss — Begin with One Stock — Artificial Methods of Increase 

 — Give the Bees Plenty of Eoom — Queen-raising — Forming 

 Nuclei — Fixing the Queen Cells — Breed Queens from the Best 

 Stock in the Apiary — Building up the Nuclei — Profit and 

 Loss— Economy pp. 5l_64 



