TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1X 
Cuarter II.—Buildings of Bees. 
Comm. —198. The furniture of the hive. 199. Made of wax. 200. Is 
waxafat? 201. Formation of wax scales. 202. Produced mainly by 
young bees. 203. Old bees can produce it also 204. Produced by digest- 
ing honey. 205. Bees hanginzinchains. 206. Root on comb-building. 
207. The first discoverer? 208. Scales of wax on the bottom of hives, 
209. Bees jiicking up old wax. 210. Solving aproblem. 211. Shape of 
thecells. 212. Marvelousindustry. 213, Natural explanation. 214. 
Cells not horizontal ; thickness of comb. -215. Color of combs. 216. Size 
of cells. 217. True measurement of cells. 218. Intermediate cells. 
219. Economy of material. 220. Wax not made of pollen. 221. Pollen 
needed. 222. Chemical composition of honey and wax. 223. Cost of 
comb, 224. Worker and storecells. 223. Not the same relative quan- 
tity. 226. Not by foreknowledge. 227. Bees follow their desires. 228. 
Five facts. 229. Preference of builders opposed to the preference of the 
queen. 230. Bees building few storecells. 238. Building about one- 
third. 232. Building them here and there. 233. Rebuilding without 
change. 234. Swarms provided with oneortwocombs. 235. Concln- 
sion. 3 
PRopouis. —236. How obtained. 237. Soils the combs. 238. Used to 
cement the cracks, 239. Gathered mainly when honey is not found. 
240. Hardin winter. 241. Snails inclosed in propolis . 242. Remarks. 
243. Superstitions. 244. Usesin Italy. 245. Uses in Russia. 
CuHartTEerR III.—Food of Bees. 
Honry. — 246. What is honey? 247. Is honey the same as nectar ? 
248. How nectar is produced. 249. Itis more or less watery. 250. Its 
yield varies greatly. 261. Reabsorbed by the plants, if not gathered. 
252. In other parts ofthe ;Jlants. 253. Best conditions. 254. Bonnier on 
the nectaries. 255. Honey dew from plants and trees. 256. From 
aphides. 257. How ejected. 258. Season and trees that produce it. 
259. Bonnier on the origin of honey dew. 260. Nectar in deep corollas. 
261, Storing and evaporating, 262. Are the cappings of cells air-tight? 
POLLEN. — 263. Its uses. 264. Indispensable for breeding. 265. Flour 
instead of pollen. 266. Gathering. 267. Substitutes. 268. Bees use- 
fal in plant impregnation. 269. Help in interbreeding plants. 270. In- 
fluence of bees upon the fecundation of plants. 
Water. — 271. Water is necessary to bees. 272. How to provide it. 
273. Experiments of De Layens. 
SaLT.—274. Bees are fond of salt. 
CuaprrmR IV.—The Bee-Hives. 
Hives witH Immovasir Comps. — 275. Earthen hives. 276. Brimston- 
ing bees. 277. Cutting the combs. 278. Caps for surplus, Section hives 
279. Vertical divisions. 
ReQuisiTEs oF a CompLeTE Hive. — 280. Twenty-six conditions. 281. 
The most indispensable is good management. — 
