CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER L 



DTTRODUCTOKT REMARKS— 17 

 Description ot lacen 17 Drones 19 



Age of queen 18 



Workers 19 



Age of worker 19 



Age of drone 20 



Preparations for swarming 30 



Their nature should be understood 20 



CHAPTER II. 



PHYSIOLOGY AND BREEDING.— 32 



Imperfectly understood 



When they begin te rear brood. 



How small colonies begin 



Different in large families 



Laying. 



Wlien the eggs hatch 



Kough treatment 



Time before the young bee commences 



labor 



Terms applied to young bees. 



Time from the egg to mature queen,. 

 Short cells usually taken for rearing 



queens 



When the queen leaves to meet the 



drone 



Number of eggs that n queen will lay. 



When drones are reared 



When queens are reared in swarming 

 hives 



When queens and drones are destroy- 

 ed before swarming 



Queen leaves with the first Swarm.. 



What becomes of the bees wlien no 

 swarm issues 



When a young queen takes the place 

 of the old one 



Wlien large numbers of drones are 

 reared 



Theory relative to drones 



Mr. Wagner's Tlieory 



Mr. Harbison's Theory 



CHAPTER III. 



HIVES.— 46 



Satisfaction In having no patent 46 



Xo difficulty in obtaining certiOcates 



and premiums ..., 47 



Hives furnished for trial 48 



Necessities of the bees 48 



Great discovery for patentrendere.,., 49 



Principlesof different hives 49 



Chamber hive 49 



Suspended hive ^50 



Inclined bottom board 50 



Dividing hive 50 



Cliangeable hive 51 



Ventilating hive 54 



Moth proof hive 54 



Non-S warmer , 55 



Common box hire 38 



