98 



iS D'ji.v. 



Naphthaline, as a preventive of 

 foul brood, 82 



— will keep away the wax moth, 



41 



Naphthol beta, for medicating 



syrup, 81 

 Narrowing entrances in spring, 



66 

 Natural history of the bee, 1-11 



books on, 8 



Natural methods of increasing 



the number of stocks of bees, 



51-8 

 Neutrals, worker bees sometimes 



called " neutrals," 2 

 Newspapers used as quilts, 73 

 No-bee-way sections, 85, 86 

 Nucleus, baby, see Baby nucleus 



— hive, tee Baby nucleus 

 hive 



— how to form, 64, 76, 84-91 

 ; — how to prevent bees deserting, 



61, 87 



Packing sections to go by rail, 42 

 Palestine bees, 56 

 Pasturage for bees, 67 

 Phenol for medicating bee syrup, 



80 

 Pipe cover queen cage, 43, 68 

 Planting flowers for bees, 67 

 Plinths to bee hives, 21 

 Pollen, artificial, 65, 66 



— where stored, 4 

 ■ — baskets, 2, 3 



Porches to bar frame hives, 20 

 illustrations of, 19, 



23, 76 

 Prevention of foul brood better 



than cure, 82, 93 

 Profitable production of bees, 



51-64, 84-92 



Queen bee, the mother bee, 2 



■ drone-breeding queens, 7, 8 



• hatching queens in incu- 

 bators, 91 



her marriage trip, 7 



how to find the queen, 43, 



44 



Queen bee, how to introduce to 

 alien stocks and nuclei, 8, 

 ■ 43, 68-70, 87 



how to rear, 6, 7, 59, 60 



longevity of, 2 



natural history of, 6-8 



number of eggs laid by, 2 



their stings, 6 



— cages, 43, 68 



illustrations of, 43, 68 



" pipe cover," 43, 68 



" Raynor," 68 



— cells, built before swarming, 9 

 illustration of, 61 



method of fixing in nuclei, 



61 



— excluding dummy, 37 



illustration of, 38 



zinc, 37, 46 



— introduction to alien stocks 

 and nuclei, 8, 43, 68-70, 87 



— raising, artificial method of, 

 59, 60, 91 



natural method of, 53, 54 



Quieting bees with carbolic acid, 



32, 34 

 rapping on the sides of 



hive, 32 



smoke, 32, 33 



Quilts for bee hives, 22, 23, 73 



Racks for sections, see Section 



crates 

 Rapid feeder, illustration of, 57 

 ~ feeding, 56, 57, 72 

 "Raynor" queen cage, 68, 69 

 Ripening honey, 49 

 Robber bees, see Robbing 

 Rffibbing, 41, 66, 72, 84, 89 - 

 Roofs for bee hives, 20 

 — how to prevent them 



from blowing off 66 

 illustrations of, 20, 23 



Salicylic acid, 79, 80 



Sanfoin honey, 67 



Saw cut in top bar of bar frames, 

 28 



Second swarms generally re- 

 quire feeding, 25 



