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INDEX. 



Black Bees, 71 



Book-keeping recommended, 332 

 Box Fumigator, 206 

 British Bee-keepers' Association, 

 6, 48 



Caledonian Apiarian Society 



(Appendix), 354 

 Carbolic acid, use of, 208, 220, 305 

 Carniolan bees, 45, 46, 53, 78 

 Change of frame-hives beneficial 



in spring, 223 

 Cheshire's (F.) frame-hive, 145 

 , , nucleus hive 197 

 ,, transferring board, 192 

 , , wax guide-maker, 191 

 Comb-building in supers, 338 

 „ fixing in ditto, 262 

 „ foundations (American), 190 

 Combs, placing in frame-hives, 223 

 Common cottager's hive, 108 

 Corri,Herr, 47, 78 

 Cottage hive, improved, 114 

 Cottager's hive, no 



,, improved ditto, 112 

 ,, improvedframe-hive,i42 

 Cotton, Rev, W. C, 5, 45, 78 

 Covers, zinc, for hives, 171, 172 



„ wood, 172, 174, 17s, 177, 179 

 Cowan's (Mr.) plan of working 



frame-hives, 255 

 Crystal Palace skep, 109 

 Cyprian bees, 47 



Darwin, Dr. 56, 57 

 Dathe, 53 



,, plan of fertilizing queens 

 with Italian drones, 253 

 Diseases of bees, 306 

 Donhoff, Dr. 5, 65, 96 

 Driving, 226 



, best condition for, 228 

 „ useful for taking honey,229 

 Drone bee, 19, 62 



„ „ has no father, 64 



., eggs, theorj' of production, 



62, 252 

 ., trap, 201 



, comb, to be used sparingly, 

 224 



Drone comb, building of, some- 

 times to be avoided, 238 

 Dummy frame, 140, 143 

 Dzierzon, Dr., 4, 10, 36, 42, 44 



,, description of the round 

 of the bees' concerns, 32 

 „ on swarming, 77 

 „ not a smoker, 210 



Egg-laying, 10, 67 

 Eggs and transformations, 59 

 Ekes, description of, 186 

 Epitaph on brimstoned bees, 85 

 Evans' (Dr.) poem on bees, 3, quo- 

 tations from, 59, ']ij^ 76, 107, 165 

 Extracting honey from comb, 274 

 Extractor, honey, 193 

 Eyes of bees, 89 



Faculties, and functions, 54 



Feeder, Nutt's, 126 



Feeders, (various), 202 



Feeding, 279 



Fertile workers, 62, 67 



Fittings and apparatus (outside), 



166 

 Flat-topped glasses, 182 

 Foul brood, 307 



„ Langstroth, Woodbury, 

 and Dzierzon on, 308, 312 

 Fox, A'Ir. George, 278 



„ Mr. S. Bevan, 278, 332 

 Frame-hive, putting swarm into,2i9 

 „ facility for placing 



combs, 223, 

 „ with cover and stand, 



17S. ^n, 179 



Frames, removing, 268 

 French exhibition, 165 

 Fumigators, 206 

 Fumigating, description of, 231 



General hints on frame-hives, 254 



„ remarks, 332 

 Gerstacker, 54 



Glass hives, ladies' observatory, 120 

 ., frame, 138 

 „ with cover and super, 

 177, r78 

 I Glasses for supers, 180, 181, 182 



