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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Can workers use older larvm? 494. Their growth retarded. 495. 
Queens raised during swarming fever. 496. Old workers are poor nurses 
497. Conditions to raise good queens. 498. When is the raising of 
queens necessary? #99. Loss of the queen. 598. Unableto fly. 501. 
Lost in her wedding flight. 502. Entering the wrong hive. 503. Sound 
advice. S04. Backed by examples. 515. Bees anticipating danger. 
506. Ilow they ascertain their loss. 507 Detecting queenlessness. 518. 
Friendly advice. 509. Drones not killed. 510. Plaintive hum of bees. 
511. Rearing improved races. S12, Selecting drones. 513. Using 
moderately populous colonies. 524. Raising from eggs. 515. Lar-e 
number of queen cells. 516. Preparing their reception. 517. How 
to transfer queen cells. 618. Precautions. 519 Inspection. 520. 
Nucleus. 6&8. Divisibleframe. 522. How to prepare nuclei. 523. 
Beware of bees returning. 6&2£. Making strong nuclei. 523. Prepare 
on the preceding day. 526. Watching and removing the laying 
queen. 527. Precautions. 528. Alley’s method. 52%. Queen nur- 
series. 530, Lamp nursery. 531. Progress of the business of rearing 
queens. 532. Some advice. 533: Introducing impregnate| queens. 
534. Conditions of success. 535. Sprinkling scented water. 536. 
Queen cage. 537. How to use. 538. Balled queens. 539. Queens 
starving and Simmins’ method. 540. Stupefying bees. 541. Introduc- 
tion of \irgin queens. 542. Bees swarming with introduced queens. 543. 
How to finda queen. 544. The odor of queens. 
Cuarrer [X.—Races of Bees. 
545. Bees not indigenous to America. 546. First noticed in Florida. 
547. Bees going westward. 6548. Several varieties. 549. The first in- 
troduced. 550. The main varieties. 551. Italian bees. 552. Their 
qualities. 553. Description. 554. The best test. 555. Italian drones 
and queens irregularly marked. 556. Vary even in Italy. 557. First 
importationin Austria. 558. In America. 559. Apis fasciata. 560. 
Holy Land and Syrian bees. 561. Apis dorsata. 562. Australian bees. 
563. Melipones. 
CuapTeR X.—The Apiary. 
Cuarter XI.—Shipping and Transporting Bees. 
564. Who should keep bees ? 563. Honey resources. 566. Begin on a 
small scale. 567. Protect the hives. 568. Avoid weeds. 569. Separ- 
ate stands. 570. Covered apiavies. 571. Sheds. 572. Out-door apiaries. 
573. Procuring bees. 574. Transferring. 575. Decoy hives. 576. 
Drumming. 577. Be sure of having the queen. 578. Tools and Imple- 
ments. 579. Howto proceed. 580. Spare worker brood. 581. IIed- 
don method. 6582 Onut-apiaries. 583. Conditions required. 584. 
Our terms for a location. 585. How many apiaries? 586. Honey house 
and window netting. 
587. Ventilation. 588. Fastening frames. 589. Rough handling. 
5690. Sending South. 69. Bees on boats. 592. Floating apiaries. 
593. Sending to better pastures. 594. Shipping queens. 595. Best 
food. 596. Bees from Italy. 597. Queen the last todie. 598. Mailing 
