450 



Index 



Blood of bees, 150 



Boiler for wax rendering, 335. 



Bonnier, 120. 



Bordas' names of glands. 111. 



Bottles for honey, 322. 



Bottom starters, 312. 



Bouvier, 52. 



Brain, 163. 



Bravla coeca, 416. 



Break test for wax, 339. 



Breathing, 151. 



Breeding, 269, 417. 



investigations needed, 428. 

 Brood, 46. 



concentric arrangement of, 56. 



development, 55. 



diseases, 397. 



early arrangement of, 55. 



-emergence, effect on swarming, 

 280. 

 Brood-rearing cycle, 57. 



end of, 86. 



temperature, 60. 



time of beginning, 55. 



in winter, 347. 

 Brood, removal, 283. 



spreading of, 262. 



stages, length of, 60. 



uses after swarming, 275. 

 Brush for bees, 31. 

 Bulk comb-honey, 318. 



marketing, 330. 

 Bulletins on beekeeping, 435. 

 Bureau of Entomology, 435. 

 Buttel-Reepen, v., 172. 

 Buying bees, 222. 



Caging of queen, 281. 

 Canada, statistics of beekeeping in, 4. 

 Candy for winter food, 345. 

 Capping cans, 294. 



melters, 295. 



of cells, 49. 

 Care of comb-honey, 316. 

 Carniolau bees, 202. 



hive, 9. 

 Cartons for comb-honey, 329. 

 Casteel, 110, 123. 

 Caucasian bees, 196. 



hives, 6, 8. 

 Cause of swarming, 75. 



Cellar temperature, 347, 353. 



wintering, 353. 

 Cell division, 96. 

 Cells, accuracy, 48, 49. 



contents, 49. 

 Cellular structure of tissues, 94. 

 Cheshire, 111, 112. 

 Chilling of brood, 56. 

 Chinese- Japanese bees, 203. 

 Chorion of egg, 184. 

 Chunk honey, 318. 

 Circulation, 148. 

 Cleaning hives in spring, 259. 



new home, 68. 



sections, 325. 



wax, 337. 

 Climate, influence on secretion, 362. 

 Clipping queens, 260, 273. 

 Closed-end frames, 28. 

 Closing the hive, 240. 

 Clustering of swarm, 65. 



aids to, 66. 

 Cocoon, 51, 101. 

 Cold-blooded animals, 59. 

 Colonial life, necessity of, 38, 39. 

 Color, European foul brood, 402. 



of combs, 51. 



of hives, 30. 



perception, 169. 

 Comb-building, 68, 108. 



plan in, 51. 



description, 46. 



-foundation, 28, 340. 



-honey marketing, 325. 



-honey production, 301. 



-honey production decreasing, 303. 

 Commercial breeders, 417. 

 Complete metamorphosis, 100. 

 Compound eyes, 166. 



hairs, 104. 

 Condensation in hive, 345. 

 Confinement in winter, 356. 

 Conservation of heat, 90. 

 Constancy of workers, 119. 

 Consumption of colony, 364. 

 Contents of cells, 49. 

 Contraction of swarms, 278. 

 Control of natural swarms, 272. 

 Cook, 113. 



Cooking, honey in, 433. 

 Co-operative selling, 333. 



