CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE DISEASES OF BEES. 



PAGES 

 Dysentery : How Produced — Indications — Treatment. Foul- 

 Brood : two kinds — Nature — Propagation. Mr. Cheshire's 

 Discoveries and Treatment — Fatal Effects of Disease — De- 

 tection — Vertigo — Analogy of Human and Bee Diseases. 129 — 138 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE ENEMIES OF BEES. 



Birds — Mice — Moths — Braula Caca — Hornets and Wasps- 

 Spiders — Toads — " Robber Bees" — Prevention of robbing. 



139—147 



CHAPTER XVII. 



HIVES. 



Natural Abodes of Wild Bees — Taking Honey from Roof of 

 House — Straw Skeps — Cottager's Hive — Supering — Nutt's 

 Collateral Hive — Village Hive — Woodbury Hive — Abbott's 

 Hives — Sectional Snpering — Stewarton Hive — Carr- 

 Stewarton Hive — Observatory Hives — Bee-houses . . 148 — 170 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



NATURAL SWARMING. 



General Facts connected with Swarming — Reconnoitring — Settl- 

 ing — Pliving — Curious Incidents — Transferring Swarms to 

 Bar- Frame Hives — Division of Swarms — Placing Swarm in 

 Permanent Position — Number of Bees in Swarming — 

 "Casts" and Later Swarms — Prevention of Swarming — 

 Feeding of Swarms . . 171 jgg 



CHAPTER XIX. 



ARTIFICIAL SWARMING. 



Advantages -Driving : Close and Open — Transfer to Bar-Frame 

 Hive — Conditions of Successful Driving — Various Methods 

 of Artificial Swarming with Bar-Frame Hives . . . 187 — 195 



