INDEX. 



99 



Second swarms, time of day when 

 . they issue from hives, 10 

 Section block, 37 

 illustration of, 37 



— crates, 37, 38 



capacity of a hive with 



doubling box for, 22 



divisional, 25 



illustrations of, 25, 38, 39 



Sections, 35 



— grooved, 36 



illustration of, 36 



— how to fold, 35, 36 - 



— illustrations of, 35-7 



— in frames, 37, 38, 85-7 

 • illustration of, 38 



— no-bee-way, 85, 86 



— sizes of, 37 



— used as miniature frames, 85, 

 88 



Separators for section Tacks, 



see Dividers 

 Shading hives, 70, 84 

 Shallow frames, 50 

 Size of bee hives, the best, 21 

 Skeps, straw, 1, 16 



illustration of, 94 



Sliding inner walls for doubling 



boxes and hives, 22 

 illustration of, 



22 

 Smokers, their use, 33 



— illustration of, 32 



— material to burn in, 33 

 South African bees, 14, 15 

 Space between honey combs, 18, 



21 

 Spray diffuser, illustration of, 80 

 Spreading the brood, 52, 53 

 Spring management of bees, 65-7 

 Stands for bee hives, 18 



illustration of, 18 



Starting bee-keeping, advice to 



persons, 24 

 Stimulative feeders, illustrations 



of, 52, 90 



— feeding, 51, 52, 55, 89, 90 

 syrup for, 52, 



Stings of bees, remedy for, 30 



what to do whto stung 



while manipulating, 30, 31 



Stings of bees, preventives, 30, 



31 

 Stores, amount a colony of bees 



requires for winter, 56, 72 

 Storing honey combs, 41, 48, 49 

 Straw skeps, see Skeps 

 Strong stocks indispensable 



when comb honey is desired, 



42 

 Summer management of bees, 



67-70 

 Supers, how to clear the bees out 



of them, 41 



— must be kept very warmly 

 covered, 40 



— when and how to take them 

 off hives, 41 



— when to put them on hives, 40 

 Swarming, appearance of a hive 



before swarming, 9, 10 



— bees when swarming wUl not 

 sting unless hurt, 26 



— time of day when bees swarm, 

 10 



— time of year when it usually 

 takes place, 9 



Swarms of bees, how to make 



them settle, 10, 26 

 how to hive them, 25, 26, 



54 

 how to return them to the 



parent hive, 44, 76 



" hunger swarms," 11 



second swarms and casts, 



10, 11, 53, 54 



treatment when hived, 53- 



truant swarms, 54 



usually cluster in highest 



part of hives, 3 

 "Wells " hives, how to treat 



swarms from, 76 

 Symptoms of foul brood, 78 

 Syrian bees, 14, 21, 56 

 Syrio-Carniolan bees, 15 

 Syrup for feeding bees, how to 



mEJce, 46 



— for rapid feeding, 56 



stimulative feeding,. 



52 



wax production, 46 



medicated, 80, 81 



