LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, 



Advance Australia (Frontispiece) 



Honey Bees 



Bee Farming (past and present) 



Queen cages and protectors 



Queen cages (another type) 



Queen cells 



Queen cells on natural combs 



Queen cells on bar-frames 



Alley queen nursery (reversed) 



Nursery cage 



Comb built in the' open air 



Queen rearing 



Shallow bar-frame 



Old straw hives 



N.S.W. written by bees 



Catching a swarm 



Taking a clustering swarm 



Transferring bees from a log 



The smoker 



Introducing queen cages 



The author transferring bees at the Hawkesbury College 



"Yes, we believe it" 



The Heddon Hive 



Bottom Board, No. 1 



Bottom Board, No. 2. 



Alighting Board 



Descriptive Bar-frame 



Frame Block, Fig. 1 



Frame Block, Fig. 2 



Concrete floors for bee-hives 



View of Apiary and Kiosk, Agricultural College 



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