44^ Glossary, 



Queen Rearing- — ^Raising- of queens, p. 233. 



Queen Register — Card to show state of hive as to queen, p. 246. 



Queen's v oice — Noise made by queen like piping*; true voice, p. 142. 



Queen Yard — Box with perforated zinc, to keep a clipped queen from being lost 

 when she comes out with a swarm ; also called queen trap, p. 141. 



Quilt— Cover for brood frames, consisting of two cloths containing wool or cotton 

 sewed together, p. 185. 



Quinby Hive — Large Ruber style of hive, p. 198. 



Quinby Frame— Large frame 1B% by llj^ inches, p. 191. 



Quincunx — Where things in rows alternate, thus, . ' . ' . 



Rabbet^— Where one si(^ of the edge of a board is planed down for a short distance, 

 p. 182. 



Race — Breed. Where a variety has been closely bred so long as to transmit its 

 peculiarities to its offspring, Ra.ce is a natural breed, p. 37. 



Rack — Crate or case ; section rack. 



Rectal Glands — Glands in the rectum, p. 121. 



Rectum — Lar^e intestine, p. 121. 



Rendering Wax — Melting and cleaning wax, p. 317. 



Reversing— Inverting ; turning bottom up, p. 257. 



Rhomb— Four equal sided figure, two of wliose opposite angles are equal and acute, 

 the others equal and obtuse. 



Ripe honey — Honey that has cured or evaporated, so it is thick, p. 149. 



Roobing — When bees steal honey from another colony, p. 402. 



Royal Jelly — Food fed to queen I.irva^, p. 8S. 



Scouts — Bees that go forth just before swarming to find and prepare the new home. 



Seal— To close. 



Sealed Brood — Brood in cells that the bees have capped, p. 136. 



Sealed Honey— Honey in cells that are capped. 



Section- Small frame for comb honev, p. 203. 



Separator — Wood or tin strip, very thm, for separating sections, so that bees will 

 build straight and true combs, p. 211. 



Septum — Base between cells of comb • incorrectly called mid-rib. 



Sholtz Candy— Good candy; sugar and honey mixed ; described years ago by Sholtz, 

 a German. 



Skip^^traw hive, such as were used in olden times. 



Smell — Sense located in antennae of insects, p. 56. 



Smoker— Instrument used to smoke or quiet bees, p. 298. 



Smymian Bees — A variety or race of bees from a province — Smyrna — in Asiatic 

 Turkej^, p. 46. 



Species — Animals so long bred as to have distinctive characteristics, more fixed 



than a race, p. 37- 

 Spent Queen — One sterile with age. 



Spermatheca — The sac off oviduct of queen that holds the sperm, p. 75. 

 Spermatozoae — Sperm cells ; the male element or fecundating principle, p. 94. 

 Spring Dwindling — Rapid aying of bees in tlie spring, p. 396. 

 Stand — Support of hive. Incorrectly used for colony. 

 Starter — ^A small piece of comb or foundation fastened to the top bar of a hive, p. 



250. 

 Sterile Queen— One tliat does not lay, p. 97. 

 Sting — The organ of defense of bees, wasps, etc., p. 130. 



StocK — ^W^rongly used for colony ; if used at all it should refer to bees, hive and :ill. 

 Stomach — Where the food is mainly digested, p. ''20. 

 Storify — Used in England for adding upper stories to hives. 

 Strain — A variety, as a strain of bees, developed by the bee-keeper. 

 Strained Honey — Honey strained through a cloth, not extracted honey. 

 Sulphur — A yellow mineral used to fumigate honey. 



Super— Upper story, either for extracted Taoney or honey in sections, p. 209. 

 Supersede — To replace with another. 

 Swarm — Bees that leave hive in natural division, 140. 



Swarming Basket— Basket to convey swarm from place of clustering to hive, p. 140. 

 Swarming Impulse or Fever— Desire of the bees to swarm. 

 Swarming Season — Season oi year when bees are likely to swarm. 

 Syrian Bee — Race of yellow bees from Ntjrtheni P;Llestinc, p. 44. 

 Taking up Bces-r-Destroying bees, to get tlie honey. Rare now. 



I'arsus— Last one to five joints of insect leg ; foot, p 128. 

 Tested Queen — One proved pure by examination of her offspring. 



