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CONTENTS. 



Proper size of hive 58 



Directions for making box bive 61 



Top of hive not fastened 62 



Best surplus boxea 63 



Directions for making boxes 63 



Guide comb 64 



Some desirable things not found in box 

 hive a"> 



Movable comb lilve 68 



Some of its advantages 67 



Movable comb hive as used by the au- 



tlior 68 



Directions for making 63 



Straw hive for wintering bees 73 



Observatory hive 75 



CHAPTER IV. 



BEE PASTURAGE.- 



Substitute for pollen 



Substitute for honey 



Manner of packing pollen 



Flowers that yield first pollen 



First honey 



Fruit flowers important 



Ited raspberry a favorite 



Honey from red clover 



Catnip one of the best honey yielding 

 plants 



Singular fatality attendant on Silk- 

 weed 



Bass-wood very Important 



Honey-dew 



Unusual secretion 



76 Buckwheat 89 



77 Do bees Injure the grain? 89 



77 Bees necessary to insure a crop 90 



73 Two kinds of pollen stored In one cell 92 



79 No test of the presence of a queen 93 



79 Bee-bread seldom packed in drone cells 94 



80 Manner of discharging pollen 91 



80 Discharging hcney 94 



Some cells contain honey for daily use 95 

 80 Combs constructed as needed 96 



Best season for honey 96 



82 How many stocks may be kept 97 



88 Principal sources of honey 99 



85 Distance a bee will go for honey 100 



CHAPTER V. 



THE APIARY.— 100 



Location 100 



Location marked 10 J 



Should not be moved 102 



Space between stands 103 



Small matters 103 



Cheap stand 104 



Disadvantage of standing too high 105 



Best cover 107 



Bee-hoase unprofitable 107 



Some will have them i07 



Hives should be of different colors. . . .107 



Replacing queens , i09 



Several bee-houses - m 



CHAPTER VI. 



KOBBIXG. 



Not understood 113 



Dlfllculty In deciding 115 



Weak colonies In danger. 115 



When to look out for robbers .116 



-113 



First Indications 117 



Remedies ng 



Equalization 12O 



Battles 121 



CHAPTER VI I. 



FEEDING,-122 



Feeding a last resort 122 Manner of feeding.... log 



Care 193 Object In feeding .',"* 1J7 



Destitute colonies sometimes desert.. .134 Promiscuous feeding unprofitable 129 



When they muit be fed 124 



