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Index. 



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Cells, hiAv stored 38 



,, special for queens ... ... 41 



Clover, white 3, 69, 70 



„ Melilot ... 69, 70, 74, 76 

 ,, Italian crimson ... 69, 75 



,, red 79, 82 



„ cultivation of 78 



Close spacing ... 131 



Colonies, number to work ... 9 

 Corab-building, manner of ... 33 



Comb-foundation 158 



Comb-lioney 194 



„ grading and bleaching 251 



,, ,, selling 253 



,, ,, preparing for market 252 



,, ,, for exhibition ... 256 



Combs, arrangement of in winter 



149, 176, 186 

 ,, distance between ... 33 



,, old or new ... ... 236 



production of new 154, 



162, 164, 209, 213, 247 



,, producing all worker ... 32S 



Commercial frames ... ... 140 



„ advantages of 141 

 ,, ' ,, why extract 



from V ... 145 

 „ „ how to stock 146 



,, ,1 convincing 



facts about 147 

 Conqueror, hanging chamber 



hive 49,1.34,155 



,, ensures correct win- 



tering ... 149, 138 



supers' of 139 



„ the back of ... 140 



„ the double 215 



Cough, treatment for 347 



(Jovered apiary, advantages of... 321 



C'rates, super 6, 148, 149, 154, 159 



for bottles ... 7, 231, 243 



,, „ comb honey 231 



Crops, growing suitable 4, 63, 66 

 ,, manuring... ... 68, 71 



cultivation of ... 74, 78 



profit from ... 93, 96 



(jdss bees, disposing of... 18, 55 



D 



Dairy, establi.shiug a 

 ,, cows for 

 „ profits from 

 Diseases of bees ... 

 Dividing for increase 

 Double-walled hives 



Doubling 



Driven bees 



366 



368 



95,96 



98 



218 



182 



146, 176, 194 

 340 



PACE 



Driven bees, foul brood among 341 

 ,, „ uniting with others 343 



,, ,, when to hive ... 342 



Driving 21 



Drones, first hatching of ... 40 



„ production of 274 



,, sole use of 40 



Dry sugar feeding 291 



Dysentery... ... ... ... 9'i 



,, how induced ... 99 

 prevention of 100 



Economy of the hive 32 



Enemies of bees ... ... ... 98 



Entrances, small 185 



Eggs, development of 33 



,, retarded hatching of ... 34 

 Excluders ... ... ... ... 365 



E.xpenses, estimated, for 2 years 6 



Experience, value of 11 



Extracted honey 195 



,, ,, for exhibition 245 



,, ,, storage of ... 240 



,, granulation of 240 



Extracting from brood combs 240 



preparing for ... 233 



„ rate of speed when 239 



E.vtiactors ... ... ... 238,241 



Feeders, Simmins' self-acting 



principle 179, 294 



feeders, Simmins' dry sugar ... 291 

 ,, Raynor bottle .. ... 294 



„ simple frame 293 



Feeding 291, 383 



,, by syrup-filled combs ... 303 

 ,, golden rule for, in Spring 193 



,, out-of-doors 301 



„ rapid 175, 297 



solid, in Autumn ... 172 



,, special plan of ... ... 198 



,, when wasteful 175 



,, with candy ... 192, 299 



with syrup-filled combs 299 



,, without feeders ... ... 298 



,, 100 colonies in a week 90, 

 172, 297 



Fertile workers 54 



Flight, distance of, when working 



71. 73 



Forage plants, (jueen of ... 77 



„ late, undesirable ... 78 



Foul brood 100 



,, ,, an evidence of low 



vitalitv (6) 126 



