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Slow motions. 393. Old precepts. 394. Fear of stings a great obstacle. 
395. Light bewilders bees. 396. Care in using smoke. %97. How to 
proceed. 398. Returning combs. 399. Mismanagement. 400. Bad 
odors anger bees. 401. Effect of their poison. 402. Remedies. 403. 
Coli water and ammonia. 404. Old bee-keepers poison-proof. 405. 
Bees as means of defense. : 
Cuarrer VI.—Natural Swarming. 
406. Preparations. 407. Not in season. 408. When effected. 409. 
Firstswarm. 40. Conditions and hour. 441. Last preparations. 412. 
Queen missing. 413. Rinzing bells useless. 414. Deportment of bees. 
415 TBeessend scouts. 416. Variousincidents. 417. Alluring swarms. 
418. Bers generally peac: ful when swarming. 419. No delay in hiving. 
420. Departing swarms. 421. Have hives ready andcool. 422. Hives 
furnished with combs. 423. Beware of honey. 424. Comb guides 425, 
Advantages of combs or comb foundation. 426. Securing straight 
combs in the brood chamber. 427. Fularging the entrance. 428. Bres 
on a small limb. 429 Swarm sack. 430. Be cautious. 431. Sack 
preferable tohasket. 432. Swarmonatrunk. 433. Catching the‘queen. 
434. Clipping wing of the quren. 435. Swarms mixing. 436. Two 
queens in the same swarm. 437. Ten swarms mixed. 438 Securing 
the queenin hivinga swarm. 439 Swarms temporarily hived. 440. Put 
in place assoonashived. 441 Feeding swarms. 442. Building straight 
combs. 483 Primary swarms with young queens 444 Secondary 
swarms. 445 Theircauses. 446. Piping ofthe queens 447. Several 
queens in the swarm. 447 (bis). Superiority of after-swarms. 448. 
Absconding swarms. 449. Thirdswarms. 450 Prevention of natural 
swarming, its desirability. 450. Excessive natural swarming. 452. 
Natural swarming and eelection. 453. Too many swarms lost. 454. 
Causes of swarming 4535 Swarming fever 456. Heat a stimulus 
457. Dronesalso. £58. Lack of ventilation, 459. Giving empty combs. 
460. Ofcasy access. 461 Hefore complete fullness. 462 Shading the 
hive. 463. Drone comb removed. 464. Good vwintilation, 465. 
Swarming cannot be absolutely prevented. 466. Prevention more difficult 
when raising com) honey. 467. Queen and drone traps. 468 Preven- 
tion of aftvr-swarms. 
Cuarrer VII—Artificial Swarming. 
469 Uncertainty of natural swarming. 470. Dividing. 471. Unre- 
liable. 472 Removing the hive. 473. Driving bees. 474. Its advan- 
tages. 475. With movablecombs. 476. Improvement. 477. Giving a 
fertile queen. 478. Nucleus method 479. With sealed queens. 480, 
Building nuclei. 481. Too much dividing 482. Queen cells made pre- 
viously, 483. Severalalvices. £84. Operations more successful during 
honey harvest. 485. Bees don’t quarrel. 486. When the weather is too 
cold. 487. Increasing too fast. 488. Caution. 
Cuaptzer VIII.—Queen Rearing. 
489. How bees raise queens. 490. Are larve inferior to eggs? 492, 
De Planta’s experiments. 492. Are young worker larva better fed? 493. 
