CONTENTS. 



Part II. 



THE APIART, ITS CARE AND MAN- 

 AGEMENT. 



INTRODUCTION.— p. 201. 



.Stariitttj an Apiary. 



Preparation, Read a Good Man- 

 ual, Visit Some Apiarist, Take a 

 College Course, Decide on a Plan, 

 How to Procure First Colonies, 

 Kind of Bees to Purchase, In What 

 Kind o( Hives, When to ]?urchase, 

 How Much to Pay, Where to Locate 



CHAPTER V — p. 207, 



Hives and Sections. 



Box-Hives, Movable-Comb Hives, 

 Early Frame Hives, The Langstroth 

 Hive, Character of the Hive, What 

 Style to Adopt, The Heddon Sur- 

 plus-Case, The Cover, Division- 

 Board, Cloth Covers, The New 

 Heddon Hive, The Frames, A Block 

 for Making Frames, Cover for 

 Frames, the Haber Hive, Observa- 

 tory Hive, Apparatus for Procuring 

 Comb Honey, Surplus Comb Honey 

 in Sections, How to Place Sections 

 in Position, Sections in Frames, 

 Crates or Racks, Fences, Separa- 

 tors, Foot-Power Saw. 



CHAPTER VI.— p. 253. 

 Potiitionaud An'an'jcmini ofApiar/j 



Position, Arrangement of Grounds, 

 Preparation tor Each Colony. 



CHAPTER VII.— p. 258. 



To Transfer Bees. 



The Old Method, Hunting Bee- 

 Trees. 



CHAPTER VIII.— p. 264. 



Jfei-diiig and Feeders. 



What to Feed, How to Feed, 

 Smith Feeder. 



CHAPTER IX.— p. 273. 



Queen- Hearing. 



How to Rear Queens, Nuclei, 

 Queen Lamp-Nursery, Shall We 

 Clip the Queen's Wing ? Laying 

 Workers, Queen Register, or Api- 

 ary Register. 



CHAPTER X.— p. 293. 



Increa.te of Colonies. 



Swarming, Hiving Swarms, To 

 Prevent Second Swarms, To Pre- 

 vent Swarming, Artificial Increase, 

 How to Divide, Capturing Abscond- 

 ing Swarms. 



CHAPTER XI.— p. 306. 

 Italians and Jialianir.inff. 



The New Races of Bees, What 

 Bees Shall We Keep ? How to Ital- 

 ianize, How to Introduce a Queen, 

 Valentine's Comb Stand, To Get 

 Our Italian Queens, To Ship 

 Queens, The " Good " Candy, Prep- 

 arations to Ship, To Move Colonies. 



CHAPTER XII.— p. 321. 

 Extracting^ and the Extractor. 



JIoney-Extractor,Desirable Points 

 in an Extractor, Use of Extractor, 

 When to Use the Extractor, To 

 Keep Extracted Honey. 



CHAPTER XIII.— p. 335. 



Working for Comb Jfouey. 



Points to Consider, To Secure 

 Strong Colonies, To Avoid the 

 Swarming Fever, Adjustment of 

 Sections, Getting Bees into Sec- 

 tions, Removal of Sections. 



