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INDEX. 



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Diseases of Bees — co?i. 



" Malignant and Infectious 



Dysentery " 141 



Symptoms and Remedy 142 



Other Diseases 141 



Saving Healthy Brood ... 140 

 To Prevent Swarming Out 139 

 Young Queens 140 



Doolittle Plan 95 



Drone Trap ... 105 



Dysenterj;, Malignant and In- 

 fectious ... 141 



Symptoms and Remedy ... 142 



Embedding Wire in Foundation 69 



Enemies of Bees 143 



Ants 143 



Bee or Wax Moths 143 



Remedy 145 



Birds 143 



Extracting 118 



Extracting House 42 



Windows ... 44 



Fastening Foundation in Fram 



Feeders 



Feeding and Disinfecting 



in Queen Rearing 



Spring 



Stimulative 



Forming Nuclei 



Foul Brood in Australasia 



Symptoms of 



Treatment of ... 

 Frames, Broad Section ... 



Handling 



Mats for Covering ... 



Number of to Hive ... 



Numbering the 



Self-Spacing 



Shallow Extracting ... 



Fuel for Smokers 



Fumigating Combs 



es 6*- 



.. 114 



" '39 



.. loS 



.. 112 



.. 113 



.. 100 



■■ 135 



■■ 135 



-■ 137 



.. 62 



.. 81 



.. 63 



.. 63 



.. 120 



.. 60 



.. 61 



.. 78 



- M5 



Gloves 80 



Grazing Stock, Question as to 161 



Hive, A Cheap Frame 59 



Cramp 58 



How to Open a 81 



Langstroth 48 



Number of Frames to ... 63 



Space, Contracting m 



Hives 47 



Frames and Section Boxes 47 



Instructions for Making ... 49 



Nucleus 57 



Nucleus 100 



Observatory 57 



Painting 57 



Hiving go 



Hiving by Catching Queen ... 91 



Honey 26 



Adulteration of 28 



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Honey— C(7«, 



Bee and its Varieties ... 7 



Dew 27 



Liquefying Granulated ... 124 



Motor Power for Extracting 73 



Proportion Possibly Con- 

 sumed by Stock 163 



Quantity of, Furnished by 

 Pasture Land 



Ripening Extracted 



Strainers 



Supers, Surplus (Extracted 

 Honey) 



Surplus 



Taking the Last Surplus ... 



White Clover 



Honey Extractor - Extracting 



Appliances 



162 



f20 



123 



IIS 

 III 



127 

 149 



71 



Increase by Artificial Means ... 



Natural Swarming 



Increasing, Natural and Artificial 

 Inmates of the Hive : Their 



Natural History 



Introductory and Historical ... 

 Italianising ... 



Liquefying Granulated Honey ... 124 

 Location ... 39 



Markings of Pure Italians ... 8 



Mats for Covering Frames ... 63 



and Covers, Extra 132 



Natural Swarming, Increase by 8G 



Nectar of Plants 158 



Superfluous 160 



" New Zealand Apiaries Act " 146 



Overstocking a District 



Parthenogenesis 



Pollen and Bee-bread 



Precautions 



Preparation for Swarms ... 

 Preparing Colony for Cell Build- 

 ing 



Prevention of After-swarms 

 Propolis 



46 



18 

 37 

 130 

 87 



99 

 92 



38 



Queen and Brood, Returning ... 99 



Nurseries 102 



Reproductive Organs of ... 15 



Queens, Choice of Breeding ... 94 

 Emerging and Mating of ... loi 



Introducing 103 



Superseding 107 



Young 140 



Queen Cells, Raising 95 



Wood Bases for ;o8 



Queen-exchiding Honey Boards 116 



Queen Rearing 94 



Feeding in 108 



Importance of 94 



Season for 97 



