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CONTENTS. 



Promotion of warmth 285 



Moisture 286 



Causes of starving 237 



Dysentery 287 



Water 292 



Natives of a warm climate 294 



Warm room 294 



Cellar preferred 295 



Housing 296 



Burying bees 299 



Straw hives SOC 



Philosophy 800 



Straw top 300 



Simplebox 304 



Mice 804 



Shade. 305 



Lose on snow 805 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



THE ITALIAN OK LIGURIAN BEE.-308 



Reputation 308 



Importers 303 



Superiority 303 



When first obtained. 309 



Object .310 



Peculiarities 311 



Longrer lived 312 



Robbing.... 313 



Disposition 314 



Swarming 315 



Hive crowded with bees in cool 



weather 317 



Remedy 317 



Purity to be secured 318 



Variation in color of queens 319 



Susceptible of Improvement 



Neiglibors join in purchasing queens. 



Mix three miles distant 



Colony to furnish drones 



Method of Italianizing a whole apiarj' 



Artificial queens 



How to rear them 



How to obtain bees for rearing queens. 



Black bees as nurses 



Best time to obtain brood 



. Finding queen 



Introduction of queen , 



Itali;inizing the box-luve 



Test of the presence of the queen 

 Transporting queen 



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CHAPTER XXV. 



PURCHASIJJG STOCKS AND TRANSPORTING BEE3.— 333 



Qualification for an apiarian 333 



Luck 333 



Pm-cliase the best 336 



Avoid diseased stocks 



Old ones not objectionable.. 

 Transporting bees. . . , ; 



CHAPTEE XXVL 



CONCLUSION.-SIO 



