100 



Texas incubators, 87 

 Travelling crate for sections, 42 



illustration of, 12 



Truant swarms, 54 



Uncapping honey, 47 



to stimulate brood rearing, 



52 



— knife, illustration of, 47 

 Uniting stocks of bees, how to 



do it, 42, 43, 71, 72 

 Unsealed brood, bees will not 

 desert it, 54 



Veils, see Bee veils 

 Ventilation of bee hives, 21 



Wax, bees, see Beeswax 



— foimdation, see Comb foun- 

 dation 



— how to extract from honey 

 combs, 83 



Wax moth, how to preserve 



honey combs from, 41, 48, 49 

 Wells system of keeping two 



queens in one hive, 75-7 

 — dummy board, 75, 76 

 Winter management of bees, 73, 



74 

 Wired frames, 27-9 



illustrations of, 29 



invaluable for extracting, 



27 

 — • — their great advantages, 27 

 Worker bees, age at which they 



first leave the hive, 5 



illustration of, 2 



longevity of, 5 



their natural history, 2-6 



Yucca brush, for removing bees 

 from honey combs, 46 



Zinc, queen excluding, 37, 46 



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