CONTENTS. XI 



Chapter X. 

 ■SPEING, SUMMEK, AUTUMN, AND "WINTER MANAGEMENT. 



Spring Management — Candy^Eobbing — Hive Roofs Blowing ofE — 

 Planting for Pees — Summer Managements-Introducing Queens 

 — Shading Hives — Autumn Management — Condemned Bees — 

 Driving — Robbing — Packing up Bees for Winter — Winter 

 Management . . .... • PP- 65—74 



Chapter XI. 



THE WELLS SYSTEM OF KEEPING TWO QUEENS IN ONE 



HIVE, THE DISEASES OF BEES, AND FINAL HINTS 



TO THE BEE-KEEPER. 



ilow to Keep Two Queens in One Hive — Mr. Wells' Discovery — 



Autumn the Best Time to Start— The Wells Hive— The Wells 



Dummy Board and How to Make It — Seotjou Racks for Wells 



Hive — Metal to be Avoided as a Material for Wells Dummies — 



What to do when the Bees Swarm — The System only Suitable 



for Experienced Bee-keepers — Dysentery — Foul Brood — 



Symptoms of Foul Brood — Remedies — Salicylic Acid— Phenol 



— Formic Acid — Naphthol Beta — Prevention Better than Cure 



— Naphthaline — Keep all Stocks Strong — Use Cane Sugar — 



Manipulating — Extracting Wax pp. 75 — 83 



Chapter XII. 

 BEE-KEEPING IN HOT CLIMATES. 

 Thick Wood should be Used for the Construction of Bee-hives in 

 Hot Climates — Great Necessity for Shading Hives — The Best 

 Method of Artificially Increasing the Number of Stocks of 

 Bees in Hot Climates — Baby Nuclei — The Use of Sections as 

 Miniature Frames— South African Standard Size Frames — 

 Fitting the Sections- into Frames — No-bee-way Sections- 

 Hatching Bee Brood in Chicken Incubators — Its Advantages 

 — Bees thus Hatched will not Desert Nuclei — How to Convert 

 Sections info Miniature Frames-Removing the Bees from 

 the Incubator to the Baby Nucleus Hives — The Newly Formed 

 Nuclei should be Stood in a Warm Room for a Few Days 

 before being put out in the Apiary— The Danger of Robbing — 

 Baby Nuclei must always be Fed — Baby Nucleus Hive— Rapid 

 Method of Building up Baby Nuclei into Strong Stocks — 

 Hatching Queens in Incubiitors — How to Make a Natural 

 Incubator — Bee-keeping in Canada, Australia, and South 

 Africa — Ants must be Guarded against— Conclusion . pp. 84 — 94 



