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INDEX. 



Roof apiary 301 



Root, A. I. (Novice) chaff-hive. .357 

 "on adultera- 

 tion. .519 

 " " candy- 



making. .334 

 " " " comb- 



building. . 



96, 97, 98 

 " " " extracting 



454 

 " " " feeding 



bees. .33i 

 ** " " foundation 



machines. 385 

 " " " hive- 



making. 178, 179 

 " " " Italian 



bees. 295, 298 

 " " " long and 



short 

 frames. 153 

 on drone 

 production 63 

 " " on shipping 



bees by the 



pound 325 



Root, B. R., on foul-brood. .481, 482 



on frames 150 



" on Danzenbaker 



frames . . 151 

 " on weight of bees. . . .326 



Root, L. C, author of Quinby's 



New Bee-keeping. .141 

 *' uses closed-end frames 



141 



Royal jelly 17, 47, 259 



Russia, wintering in 340, 361 



Sack for hiving swarms 223 



Salivary glands 15, 16, 21 



Salt for bees 130, 131 



Saltpeter-rags 194 



Sartori &. Rauschenfels, honev- 



cake. .528 

 " on comb- 



building. . 96 



Sashes for windows 318 



Saunier experiment on brood.. 75 



Savage observing hive 186 



Scales of wSx 94 



Schiemenz describes the stomach 



mouth. . 28 

 Schirach discovery of the origin 



of the queen. . 40 



Scholz candy 324, 335 



material for hives 177 



Schonfeld on the chyle 28 



Scouts 216 



" returning 219 



Screen 318 



Scudamore on swarm 227, 243 



Sealed honey for extracting. .. .401 

 " " in sections. .443, 444 



Sealed queen cells 45, 269 



Sealing of comb 122 



Sectional hives 135 



Sections 431, 432 



brood frames for.. 433, 448 



" case 433 



" Miller 449 



propolizing 442 



removing 444 



securing straight combs 



in.. 439 

 Selection in bees. .235, 236, 261, 267 



Selling honey 518 



bees 327 



Separators 439 



Shade 239 



Shakespeare 336 



Shaking the bees like seeds. 32, 223 



Sheds 306 



Shipping bees 320 



to better pasture. 322 



honey 511, 512 



queens 323 



by mail 324 



food for 323 



from Italy 324 



Shook-swarming 250 



Siebold, his opinion of the "Ber- 



lepsch" hive. .144 

 " on parthenogenesis. . .56, 60 



Sieve 469 



Simmins' method of introducing 



queens. .285 

 " non-swarming system. 236 



Size of frames 149,153,154 



" of our hive 164 



Skeleton of insect 2 



Slanting apron-board. '. . . . .166, 167 



Smelling organs 11 



** " direct bees to 



flowers. .13, 14 

 Girard experi- 

 ments on. . 13 

 " " very acute . . . 



13. 206, 288 



Smoke for handling bees 193 



" helping robbers 201 



Smokers 191, 192 



fuel for 194 



Smoking bees 193 



not always necessary. 198 



Snails propolized 112 



Snow 350, 353 



Soria space hive 136 



Sounds produced In flight 34 



Sour honey 517 



Space around the frames. .142, 164 



under division board 172 



Spaces between brood stories. . .152 



Spacing wire 170 



Sparrows and bees 503 



Spermatheca 56 



Spine of the second pair of legs 24 

 Spinola on the Italian bees. 293, 294 

 Spiracles of the lungs of bees. . 32 



Spring dwindling 363 



feeding 330 



Sproule on foul-brood 481 



Square frames 153 



