INDEX. 



315 



Boxes, Puttins on and taklns off 185 



" Too easy or access, 13S 



" To prevent qiieoii entorliis 139 



" Transferred 19S 



" "When to take off 1 10 



Breeding and physiology 'ii 



'* In large and small colonies.. 23 



Brood, Best time for oil 



" Diseased 310 



" *' cause and remedy 213 



" " description of 211,216 



" " examination of. 218 



" *' Mr. Wagner's vie\vof..217 

 *' When they begin to rear 23 



Bnckwhe^ t , 89, 99 



Button-ball 88 



Cat-bird 'J30 



Catnip 80 



Cells, Containing honey for daily use. . 95 



" For drones 251 



" For rearing queens 29 



'* Dniformity of 252 



Cephalanthus occidentalis 88 



Chamber hive 49 



Cherry, "Wild 79 



Chickens eat drones 230 



Chrysalis 27 



Clover 80, SI. 99 



Clustering bushes 161 



Colonies, Deserting when destitute 124 



" Inclined to rob 267 



" Selecting for winter 236 



Size of J 285 



When to feed 124 



Conclusion 310 



Comb. Commencement of 247 



" Constructed as needed 96 



" Croolced 250 



" Melting of .254 



" Eemoving 279 



" Straight 250 



Dandelion 79 



DIervilla trifida 81 



Disease 210 



" Cause and remedy 212 



" Description of. -.211 



" Manner of spreading 316 



*• Mr, Wagner's view of 217 



Diseased bvood, Knowledge of. 220 



Drone and worker-combs 191 



Drone cells 231 



Drone-nomb 195 



Dronc-corabs, Too many ...19^ 



1* 



Drone eggs, Theories about unimpvog- 



mvted 39, 40 



" " When laid 36 



Drone layers :)6, 37 



Di'onoB 10 



" Agoof 20 



*' Colony for 321 



" Destroyed before swarming 3;J 



" Eaten by chickens 230 



" Needed 197 



" Number of 35 



" Theories relative to SfJ 



'* When met by queen 2D 



*' When reared 33 



" Why sometimes killed 1.53 



Dysentery among bees 287 



Eggs, Number laid by queen 30,31 



" Of drones, When laid 36 



" When they hatch 25 



F 



Feeding, A last resort 123 



" Care in 123 



" Manner of 126 



Object of 127 



" Promiscuous 129 



" When best 377 



*' liefuse honey, 281 



Flowers of fruits 79 



" Yielding pollen first 78 



Fruit flowers, Important 79 



Fumigator 271 



Glass boxes, Advantage of 139 



Grub 27 



Guide-comb G4 



H 



Hamamselis Vlrginiana 86 



Hive, Accessibility of 265 



Chamber 49 



Changeable 51 



Common box 58, CI, 304 



Dividing 50 



Farmer's 57 



In cold weather 317 



Italianizing the box 339 



Moth-proof 54, 134 



Movable comb 66 



" How.made 68 



" To use... 171, 191, 194 



Non-swaj.'mcr 55 



Observatory. 75 



Of straw, for winter 73 



