CONTENTS. 



PART I.— ADVICE TO BEGINNERS. 



Introductoiy . . 



Who should not keep Bees 



Beekeeping for Ladies 



Beekeeping for Returned Soldiers 



Cadetship 



Cadets at the Government 

 Apiaries 



Proiits in Beekeeping . . 



Beekeeping Literature 

 The Hive to adopt 



The Langstroth Hive . . 



The Dovetailed Langstroth Hive 



The Bottom-board 



Frames . . . • , 



Wiring Frames 



Fitting Foundation to Frames . 



Making Hives 



Mats 



Covers 



Shallow Frames and Supers 



A Cheap Frame Hive . . 



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When and how to start Beekeeping 12 



Sections and Extracting-frames 13 



Cost of Beginner's Outfit .. 13 



The Apiary .. .. •• 13 



Location of First Importance . . 13 



Site and Shelter .. ■ ■ 14 



Honey-producing Hedge-plants 16 



Area of Ground for a Bee-farm. . 16 



Water . . . . . . 16 



Laying out an Apiary. . . . 16 



Keeping the Hives free from 



Grass . . . • . . 18 



Shade . . . - ..18 



Apiary Buildings . . . . 19 



Handling Bees . . . . ■ ■ 23 



Bee-veil and Smoker ... . . 24 



How to manipulate a Hive . . 24 



Handling Frames of Comb . . 25 



The Inm'ates of the Hive . . 28 



The Development Question . . 28 



The Use of Comb-foundation 



New Zealand Comb-foundation. 

 Swarming 



Hiving Swarms 



Prevention of Swarming 



Prevention of After-swarming . 



Treatment of Swarms — Provision 

 of Supers . . 

 Artificial Increase 



Nucleus Hives 



Reasons for Requeening 



How to tell a Poor Queen 



How to tell a Good Queen 

 Queen-rearing . . 



The Swarthmore System 



The Alley System 



The Stewart Method . . 



Queen-nurseries 



Mating-boxes 



Introducing Queens . . 



Finding Queens 

 Seasonal Operations, &c. 



Early Spring Work 



Preparations for the Season 



.Apiary Register 



Enlarging the Hive 



Removing Honey from the Hive 



Uncapping . . 



The Honey-extractor . . 



Queen-excluders 



Bee-escapes . . 



Size of Honey-tanks . . 



Strainers 



Care of Extracting-combs 



Care of Utensils 



Uniting Colonies 



Robbing 



PART II.— PRACTICAL NOTES. 

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29 Seasonable Operations, &c. — contd. 



32 Care of Comb-honey . . 



32 Marketing the Crop . . 



33 Honey for Export 



33 Transport of Bees 



34 Ripening and Maturing of Honey. 

 Amount of Moisture in Honey . 



35 Honey Analyses 

 35 Testing Honey for Ripeness 



35 Testing Thick Honey . . 



36 Ripening Honey Inside and Out 



37 side the Hive 

 37 Testing Strength of Liquid fo 

 37 making Honey-vinegar 



37 Liquefying Granulated Honey . 



38 Dealing with Thick Honey 

 40 Honey-capping Presses 



40 Capping-melters and Thick-honey 



41 Reducers ... 



41 Spring Feeding of Bees . . 



42 The Cause of Starvation 



43 Feeding 

 43 Feeders 

 43 An Excellent Method for the 



43 Large Beekeeper 



44 Sugar-candy 



44 Cautions 



45 Wax-extractors 



46 The Solar Wax-extractor 



47 The Hatch Press 



48 The Root Wax-press . . 



49 Method of rendering Wax 



49 Diseases of Bees and their Treat 



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51 Foul-brood . . 

 51 Other Diseases 

 51 The Bee or Wax-moth 



The Apiaries Act, 1908 



The Apiaries Amendment Act, 



1913 .. .. , 



Honey-export Regulations 



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 Foods and Drugs Act, 1908 . . 

 Containers 

 Honey 



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