INDEX. 



Cainiolan bees, 13, 21 



— hybrids, 15 



Carr section crate, its advan- 

 tages, 40 



Chilled brood, 53, 82 



Close driving, 72 



Clover honey, 67 



Cocoons spun by bees in larval 

 state, 4, 5 



Combination hives, 21 



Comb box, illustration of, 47 



— foundation, 26, 27 



for the stock hive, " brood 



foundation," 27 



how to fix into frames, 28 



illustration of, 27 



wired, its advantages, 



27-9 



illustration of, 29 



Combs, see Honey combs 



Composition of a hive or colony 

 of bees, 1 



Condemned bees, 70 



Co-operation desirable in bee- 

 keeping, 92 



Crates of sections, see Section 

 crates 



Crossbred bees, 15 



Cyprian bees, 14, 56 



Dalmatian bees, 15 

 Development of the bee from 



the egg, various stages of, 4-7 



illustration of, 2 



Direct introduction of queen 



bees to alien stocks and 



nuclei, 8, 69, 70, 87 

 Diseases of bees, 77-82 

 Disinfecting hives, 79 

 Dividers for sections, 39, 86 



illustrations of, 39, 86 



Division boards, see Dummy 



boards 

 Divisional section crates, 25 



illustration of, 25 



Doubling, 45, 46 



• — boxes for bar frame hiyes, 21 



illustration of, 23 



sliding inner walls 



for, 22 

 illustration of, 22 



Driving bees out of straw skeps, 

 method of, 70, 71 



— irons, illustration of, 71 

 Drone comb, 3 



— eggs, time of year when first 

 are laid, 9 » 



Drones, illustrations of, 2 



— longevity of, 6 



— should be bred from the best 

 stocks only, 62 



— their natural history, 2, 5, 6 

 Dummy boards, 20 



illustration of, 20 



queen excluding, 37 



illustration of, 38 



" Wells," 75 



Dysentery, 77 



Economy essential when breed- 

 ing bees for sale, 64 



Eggs, laid by the queen, 2 



are of two kinds, 3 



fertile workers' produce 



only drones, 8 



Empty honey combs for hiving 

 swarms upon, 24 



how to fix them into 



frames, 25 



how to preserve them 



from the wax moth, 41, 48, 49 



English bee, the, 12 



Entrance contractor, 19 



illustration of, 19 



Entrances to bar frame hives, 19 



— should be narrowed in spring, 

 66 



: — width in autumn, 72 



in winter, 73 



Extracted honey, advantages of, 



45 

 Extracting honey, 46, 47 



— beeswax from honey combs, 

 83 



Extractors, honey, illustrations 

 of, 48 



Feeders, illustrations of, 52, 57, 



88, 90 

 Feeding, rapid, 56, 57, 72 



— stimulative, 51, 52, 55, 89, 90 



— with candy, 65, 66 



