LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Frontispiece : The Author. 



FIG. PAGE 



1. Abdomen of Itahan Worker 8 



2 — 3—4. Queen. Drone. Worker 1 1 



5. Head of Worker Bee ... 14 



6. Ovaries of Queen 16 



7. From the Egg to the Bee ... 19 

 8.^. LarvEc and Q. Cells ... 20 

 QjQueen Cells over Worker 



# Cells 21 



J. The Sting 23 



11. Wax Pockets of Worker Bee 29 



12. Steam Wax Press 32 



13. Hatch Wax Press 33 



14. Solar Wax Extractor ... 35 



15. Drone and Worker Cells ... 37 



16. Government Apiary 41 



17. Ground Plan Extracting 



House 43 



18. Hopkins' Langstroth Hive ... 47 



19. Langstroth Hive for Comb 



Honey 48 



20. End of Hive (Inside View) ... 50 



21. End of Hive (Outside View) 50 



22. Side of Hive (Inside View) ... 51 



23. Putting Parts of Hive To- 



gether 52 



24. Bottom Board S3 



25. Alighting Board 54 



26. End of Cover 55 



27. Side of Cover 55 



28. Ridge Board of Cover ... 55 



29. Roof Board of Cover 56 



30. Cover Complete 56 



31. Hopkins' Hive Cramp ... 58 



32. Hoifman Brood Frames ... 60 



33. Metal Spaced Frame 61 



34. Shallow Hoffman Frame ... 62 



35. Half-story Frame with Sec- 



tions 62 



36. One Piece Section Box 64 



37. Comb Foundation 65 



38. Wax T-be Fastener 68 



39. Wiring jJoard 69 



40. Spur Wire Embedder ... 70 



41. Fixed Basket Extractor ... 71 



42. Six-comb Reversible Ex- 



tractor ... 72 



43. Automatic Reversible Four- 



comb Extractor 73 



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44. Bingham Uncapping Knife... 74 



45. Dadant Uncapping Can ... 74 



46. Root Cappings Melter ... 75 



47. Bee Veils 78 



48. Corneil Smoker 79 



49. Vesuvius Smoker 79 



50. Hive Tool ... _... ... 81 



51. Comb Holder 82 



52. Wood Cell Cups (cross 



sections) 96 



53 Wood Cell Cups Spiked to 



Frame ... 96 



54. Queen Cell Completed on 



Wood Base 96 



55. Showing How to Cut the 



Comb ... 98 



56. Frame for Raising Queen 



Cells 99 



57. Queen Cell Protector ... 101 



58. Alley's Queen Nursery ... 102 



59. Alley's Nursery Cage .-.. 103 



60. Alley's Introducing Cage ... 104 



61. TitofF Introducing Cage ... 104 



62. Introducing Cage in Use ... 104 



63. Drone and Queen Trap ... 105 



64. Clipping Queen's Wings ... 106 



65. Comb Prepared for Queen 



Cells 109 



66. Comb with Eighty Good 



Queen Cells no 



67. Division Board m 



68. Division Boards in Use ... 112 



69. Simplicity Feeder 114 



70. Doolittle Feeder 114 



71. Zinc Excluder ti6 



72. Wood and Wire Excluder ... 116 



73. Comb Basket ... 118 



74. Bee Brush ... ... ... 119 



75. "Daisy" Wheelbarrow ... 119 



76. Honey Tank ... 123 



77. Alexander Strainer 124 



78. Porter Bee Escape 128 



79. Portion of Diseased Comb ... 136 



80. Large Wax moth 144 



81. Silken Tube of the Moth 



Larvae 144 



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