CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
PREFACE, ‘ . 5 . ° . . 5 
Cuap. I.—Introduction, 3 . ‘ z 9 
II.—The Queen Bee, . ‘ rn 10 
UI.—The Operation of Lovie 3 11 
IV.—The Development of the Brood, 12 
Y.—The Working Bee, - . é 15 
VI.—The Drone, 17 
VIl.—Longevity of Bees. 2 Ronnie ‘of the ake 19 
VIl.—The Apiary.—Influence of the morning sun peneficial.— — 
22 
Out-door Apiary, : 
IX.—Hives—Bee-Hives.— Weeks’ ‘ennai Hives —Storitying 
and Subtended Hives.—Bevan’s Cross-Bar Hive,— 
Collateral Hives.—Nutt’s Collateral Hive.—Miner’s 
Equilateral Cross-Bar Hive. F 7 : 
X.—Formation of Swarms, . . 
XI.—Symptoms prior to Swarming. — Symptons pier to a se- 
cond Swarm, 
XII.—Hiving Swarms.—Preparation of Hives for fhe reaction 
of Swarms, 
XIU.—Artiticial clustering diate or ih 7 
XIV.—Hiver, . : ‘ ‘ a 
XV.—Different swarms uniting, _ “ 
XVI—Uniting second or weak swarms, 
XVIL—Reunion of the parent stock with a ae or third 
swarm, 
XVUI.—Equalizing Colonies. ia siete condat of Bees of all ages, 
XIX.—The conversion of the Egg or Larva of a worker to a 
Queen, é F 7 5 
XX.—Formation of Artificial Swern . : - 
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