x1V TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CuartER XVJ—Pasturage and Overstocking. 
Pasturacrt —698 Quantity varies. 699. Even in the same kind of blos- 
soms. 700 Study of the resources. 701. Clover. 702. Linden. 703 
Alsike. 704, Several others. 705. Fall flowers. 706. List of 200 honey or 
pollen-yielding plants 
OVERSTOCKING.—707. Is it possible? 708. How far bees fly? 709. How 
many colonies to the acre?,710. In Germany. 741. In California. 712, 
The crop of our county. 713. Opinions on overstocking. 7VI4. Helping 
bees. 715. Averaze of crops. 
Cuaprer XVII—Production. 
716. Its history. 717. Our prozress. 718. Conditions of success. 
Comp Honry.—719. Very attractive. 720. Its improvements. 721. 
Honey insections. 722. Smallsections. 723. Howmade. 724. Upper 
story. 725. Difficulties. 726. Reversing. 727 Reversible hives. 
728, Built sections 729. Brood chamber full. 730. Exchanging 
combs, 731 Straight combs. 732 Queen in thelower story. 733. 
Sections given to the swarm, 734. No propolizing. 735. Securing 
sealed combs. 736. Fastened solid. 737. Preventing bridges. 738. 
How deep the upper story. 739. Section crate. 740. Manum clamps. 
741. Foster open-side sections. 742. Foster case. 743. Removing 
sections. 744. Some other facts. 745 Conclusion. 
Extractrp Honry —746 Strained honey. 747. In Europe. 748. From 
hollow trees. 749 Invention of Hruschka. 750. Our first extractor. 
751. Our mistake. 752. Anvantages of extracting. 753. Advice to 
beginners. 75 Less work. 755 Swarming prevented. 756. Use of 
extractor allvised. 757. Halfstories. 758. Defects of full depth uppér 
stories. 659. How to use upper stories. 760. Greater facilities for 
bees. 761. Ins; ection. 762 How many pounds of honey 763. Fur- 
nishing empty combs. 764 Artificial ripening. 765, Equalizing the 
surplus. 766. Harvesting. 767. Implements needed. 768. Robber- 
cloths. 769. ‘Ihe Bee Escape. 770. Implements iu the honey house. 
771. Extracting from the broodchamber. 772. Cappingcan. 773, Ex- 
tractors 774. Uncapping knives. 775 Extracting. 776. Inviting 
neighbors. 777. Automatic extractors. 778. Emp ying the extractor. 
779 Caution. 780. Beware of robbing. 781. Returning the combs. 
782. Separate the crops. 783. Conclusion. 
Cuarrer XVIII.—Diseases of Bees. 
784, Diarrhea. 785. Hairless bees. 786. Contagious diseases. 787. 
Foul-brood. 788. Experiments of Dupont. 789. Description of the dis- 
ease, 790. Detected in Spring. V9. Jones’ treatment. 792. Muth’s 
method. 793 Bertrand method. 794. Fumigating process. 795. 
Cheshire method. 796. Care and perseverance. 797. Preventive care. 
798, Infected queens. 799. Antiseptics. 800. Divers contagious dis- 
eases. $01. Accidental dead brood. 
Cuarrer XIX.—Enemies of Bees. 
802. Bee moth 803. Description, 804. Theiractions. 805. Their gal- 
leries, 806. Their worms. 807. Their food. 808. How they behave. 
