6 Index. 



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HONEY PRODUCTION f ° 



What is Honey? °i 



No Manufactured Comb Honey °^ 



Preparing the Supers °2 



Putting in the Foundation 63 



When to Put on Supers °^ 



Why Bees Don't Work in Supers 65 



COMB BUILDING AND BEESWAX 65 



Rendering Beeswax 66 



Sun-Extractors and Presses 67 



Comb Foundation 68 



Why Comb Honey Costs More 70 



Artificial Comb 70 



WORK SHOP AND HONEY HOUSE 71 



Under One Roof, But Separate 71 



Everything In Its Place , 73 



Where to Keep Honey , 74 



Honey as a Food 74 



Honey Vinegar 75 



COMPARATIVE PROFIT IN COMB AND EXTRACTED HONEY 7 6 



Texas Standard Packages 77 



Bulk Comb Honey 78 



Taking Oft Honey 80 



How It Is Packed 83 



Extracted Honey 85 



MARKETING HONEY 88 



Low Honey Prices : 89 



A Honey Price List 90 



Shipping, Sight Draft Attached 91 



Shipping Honey 92 



Granulation of Honey 93 



SWARMING 94 



Scouts Before Swarming 9 6 



Swarm Prevention 97 



Preventing After-Swarms 99 



Clipping Queen's Wings 100 



Natural or Artificial Increase '. loi 



Making Rapid Increase . 102 



QUEEN REARING ' 104 



Improving Bees 106 



Re-Queening IO7 



Kind of Queens to Buy 108 



Rearing, or Buying, Queens 108 



Introducing Queens I09 



TEXAS DIVIDED APICULTURALLY '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 110 



Main Honey Sources HI 



Other Honey Plants II3 



Planting for Honey _\ 115 



Bees and Alfalfa 115 



Buckwheat as a Honey Plant . . 115 



White and Yellow Sweet Clover 116 



Cotton very Important -iio 



DISEASES AND ENEMIES '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. II9 



Foul Brood 120 



Giving Treatment 124 



Other Diseases ■< 05 



Bee Moths 127 



Other Enemies ,01 



WINTERING t^5 



EDUCATIONAL |,° 



Field Meetings 134 



Beekeepers' Associations -.or; 



Exhibiting at Fairs '.'.'.'.'.'. Jor 



Books on Beekeeping ^ o^ 



Bee Journals f,° 



Binding Publications ^3? 



