568 



INDEX. 



Honey cakes 528 



cells, are they air tight?. 122 

 " comb, see Comhs. 



" crop in California 425 



*' " Germany 424 



" " this country . . . .426 



" our largest 460 



*' dew 118, 119, 120, 121 



. " " as seen by Knight. . .120 

 " from aphides.119, 120, 121 



" " its looks 120 



'* " origin of 119 



■" different grades of SOS 



*' evaporating 122 



" extracted 451 



" extractor 434 



*' fermenting 510, 517 



" from clover 398-400 



" " divers flowers 398 



■" " hollow trees 453 



■" " linden 402 



" granulating 515 



" handling 508 



" harvesting 463 



" house 318 



" " implements ....463, 465 



" in sections 432 



" marketing 508 



" melting 517 



" poisonous 509 



" production 428 



" sack 26, 27 



*' shipping cases 509 



'" storing and evaporating. . 122 



■" strained 452 



" uses of 525 



" vinegar 528, 529 



Hornets damaging fruit.... 19, 128 



Horse killed by bees 206 



Hour of the fecundation of 



queens 



*' of swarming 214 



House apiary 306 



Hruschka 454 



Huber, apiary 301 



" experiments on comb 



building. .104, 105 



pollen 123, 124 



" propolis 110 



" the antennae 



8, 9, 10, 14 

 " the memory of 



bees. 

 " the sense of 



smell. 

 " ventilation . . . 



" virgin queens 



50, 51 



hive 141 



imported Melipones 300 



on artificial swarming. .. .244 

 bees transporting eggs. 47 

 drone reared in queen 



cell. . 59 



fertile workers 77 



how bees build their 



combs 394 

 location 301 



54 



14 



.206 

 .180 



Huber, on the impregnation of 

 I queens. .55, 57, 84 



the introduction of 



queens. .282 

 the talents of Burnens 



74, 77 



" tribute to 8, 9 



was blind 8 



" wife of 9 



Humming 26. 33 



Hutchinson, on comb building. . 97 

 " comb honey pro- 



duction. .442, 451 

 " packing comb 



honey. .511 

 " prevention of 



after-swarms . . 242 

 queen rearing 



279, 280, 282 

 " shipping honey . 511 

 " use of comb. . .221 

 " use of founda- 

 tion. .396 

 Hymenoptera 1 



Implements, see Tools. 



Importing bees.. 297, 298, 323, 324 



Impregnation of the queen 53 



" in confinement. ... 55 



" in the open air. . . 53 



Increasing too fast 487 



Inhabitants of a hive 2 



Insects and bees 506 



Introducing queens 282 



Irving, quotation from.... 289, 290 



Italian bees 59, 293 



color 295 



" description of . . . .295 

 *' destroy moths . . . .499 

 " first importa- 

 tion in America. .297 

 qualities of. .293, 294 

 " vary even in Italy. 296 

 Italian cakes 528 



Jarring combs, anger bees 202 



Jaws of bees 19 



Jefferson, quotation of 289 



Jelly fed to larvee 71 



Johnson, J. B., on feeding bees. 330 



Jones, cure of foul brood 449 



importer of bees 298 



" on number of queen cells. 46 



Kirby and Spence 119 



Knives for uncapping. .. .465, 468 



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Labial palpi and maxillte 20 



Labrum 19 



Landois on the humming. . . .26, 34 

 Language of bees 34 



