CONTENTS. 



Size of hives needed, 



An I^periment, .... 



Bees do not increase if full after Ihe 



first year in same hive, . 

 Gillmore's system doubted, 

 Utility of moth-proof hives doubled, 

 Instincts of the bee always the 



same, ..... 

 Profit the object, 

 Common hive recommended, . 

 Size Important, .... 

 Small hives most huble to accidents, 

 Apt to deceive, .... 

 Unprofitable if too large, 

 Correct size between two extremes. 

 Size for warm latitudes, 

 Larger hives more safe for long 



Winters or backward Spring, . 

 2000 mches safe for this section, . 



C H APTER III. 



BRE EDING. 



Imperfectly Undertsood, . . 62 



Good stocks seldom without brood, 63 

 How small slocks commence, . 64 

 Difierent with larger ones, . . 65 

 How Pollen is stored in the breeding 



season, 



Operation of Laying, and the E^gs 



described, .... 



Time from the Egg to the perfect BeCj 

 Hough treatment of the young Bee, 67 



Guess-work, 68 



Terms applied to young Bees, . 69 



Discrepancy in lime in rearing brood 



as given by Huber, . . .70 

 The number of Eggs deposited by 



tlie Queen guessed at, . . 71 



65 



67 



A test for the presence of a 

 Queen, . ■ . . . 



When Drones are reared, 



When Queens, .... 



Liability of being destroyed, . 



Drones destroyed when honey is 

 scarce, 



Old Queen leaves with the first 

 swarm, 78 



A young Queen takes the place of 

 her mother in the old stock, 



Other Theories, .... 



Subject not understood, . 



Necessity for further observa- 

 tion^ 



Two sides of the qaestion, 



73 



74 

 74 

 76 



77 



CHAPTER IV. 



BEE PASTURAGE. 



Substitute for Pollen, ... 88 

 Manner of packing it, . . . 89 

 Alder yields the first, . . .89 

 Fruit Flowers important in good 

 weather, . . . .91 



Red Raspberry a favorite, . , 91 

 Catnip, Mother-wort, and Hoar- 

 hound, are sought after, , , 93 

 Singular fatality attendant on Silk- 

 weed, 9g 



