FORTY YEARS AMONG THE DEES. 



Selection — Importance of 229 



Separators — Putting in 149 



Separators — Top 150 



Shade 96 



Shade— Movable 97 



Shaken Swarms 173 



Shaljen Swarms Without In- 

 crease 190 



Shaking Bees OtI Combs 261 



Shipping-Cases 268 



Shop for Bee- Work 139 



Smoker-Fuel...; 70 



Smoker-Fuel— Green 70 



Smoker-Kindling 72 



Smokers 69 



Smokers — Cleats on 70 



Smoking Bees Down 195 



Spacing End 84 



Spacing-Nails 83 



Sponge-Bath at Noon 227 



Spring Overhauling 54 



Standard Goods — Using 86 



Stands 94 



Starters in Sections — Size of. . . 142 

 Starters — Putting in Sections. . 146 



Slings— Getting Out 225 



Stings — Protection from 223 



Stove in Cellar 296 



Strong vs. Weak Colonies 110 



Sub-earth Ventilation 300 



Super-Filler 148 



Supers lor Out-Apiaries 154 



Supers — Giving Additional 151 



Supers — Loading on Wagon .. . 200 

 Supers of Sections — Blocking 



Up 207 



Supers— T 128 



Supers — Under or Over 154 



Surplus Arrangements 137 



Surplus Combs of Honey 103 



Swarming — Cause of 170 



Swarming Colonies — Manage- 

 ment of 157 



Swarming — Disadvantage of 



Forced 175 



Swarming Forced 173 



Swarming — Forced vs. Natural 173 

 Swarming — Foundation Plan 



to Prevent 184 



Swarming Galore 180 



Swarming Not Desirable 156 



Swarming — Prevention of 168 



Swarming — Ventilation to Pre- 

 vent 191 



Swarms — Accidental 191 



Swarms — Watching for 158 



Sweeping Up Dead Bees 303 



Syrup for Feeding 280 



Tent-Escape 197, 210 



Tool-Basket 75 



Top-Bars— Thick 38, 133 



Total Crop Rather than Per 



Colony 35 



T Super 38 



UnitingNuclei 286 



Unqueening Colonies to Start 

 Queen-Cells 232 



Value of Pure Aair 306 



Ventilation and Room to Pre- 

 vent Swarming 170, 191 



Ventilation of Cellar 297 



Warm Spells in Wintering 298 



Watering-Crock 108 



Wax-Extractor — Dripping-Pan 307 



Wax-Extractor— Solar 307 



Wax-Press— Steam 308 



Weak Colonies in Spring 109 



Weighing Colonies 284 



Wide-Frames 31 



Wintering — Disastrous 24 



Wintering Upside Down 17 



Working lor Improvement 86 



Young Queens and Swarming. 171 



