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INDEX. 



of queens over their development, 47 ; 

 laid ten months in the year, 48, 339 ; 

 supernumerary, how disposed of, 48 ; 

 ventilation necessary for hatching, 89 ; 

 of workers transferred to royal cells, 

 219 ; of bee-moth, 234 (note 2). 



Eh?enfels, profits of his large apiary, 

 300. 



Enemies of bees, 228-255 ; moth, 228- 

 252 ; mice, 252 ; birds, 252, toads^ 254 ; 

 bears, 254 ; ants, 255 ; wasps, spiders, 

 &c., 255 : all agreed in fondness for 

 honey, 255. 



Energy of bees, instructive, 197. 



Engravings, see wood-cuts. 



Entrance of hives, should not ordina- 

 rily be above the level of the bottom- 

 board, 98 ; should be readily varied 

 without perplexing the bees, 98 : a 

 small upper one, uses of, 250, 388 (and 

 note); should be nearly closed when 

 colony is threatened by robbers, 264 ; 

 how to regulate in Winter, 338. 



Epitaph on bees killed by sulphur, 239. 



Ether used for stupefying bees, 210. 



Evans, Dr., quotations from poem of, 

 on bees, 50, 60, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 109, 

 267, 292. 



Experiments, an interesting one, 67 ; of 

 Huber, showing the use of pollen, 80 ; 

 author's to the same effect, 81 ; nume- 

 rous, of author, 179 ; cautions con- 

 cerning, to beginners, 179 ; bee-keep- 

 ers invited to make, 180 ; of Huber, 

 showing two kinds of workers, 193 

 (note); difhculty of demonstration by, 

 193 (note) j Dr. DdnhofTs, showmg 

 that youQg bees are nurses and old 

 bees honey -gatherers, 194 ; of author, 

 in wintering bees, 339 ; of E, T. Stur- 

 tevant, 340 ; of Berlepsch and Eber- 

 hardt, 342 ; of J. C. Bodwell, 345 ; of 

 Mr. Scholtz, 348 ; further, needed, in 

 wintering bees, 360, 



Examination of combs and bees in hive, 

 importance of, in Spring, 221. 



Experience renders bee-keeping profit- 

 able, 282. 



F. 



Facts, however wonderful, should be 



received, 42. 

 ' Faaces, appearance of, la young and old 



bees, different, 197 ; healthy bees do 



not discharge, in hive, 347 ; how to 



make bees in mov. comb hives, safely 



discharge, 361 (and note). 

 Faint-heartedness, rebuked, 198. 

 Famine causes bees to abandon hives, 



116. 

 Fear, effect of, in taming bees, 27 ; in 



uniting swarms, 204. 

 Feeble stocks improfltable, 141, 177, 269, 



336. 

 Feeder, convenience of, in mov. comb 



hive, 270 ; construction of, 271 ; PI. 

 XL., Fig. 26. 

 Feeding bees, 267-278 ; few things more 

 important in practical bee-keeping, 

 267 ; Spring feedmg specially neces- 

 sary, 267 (and note); caution in, re- 

 quired, 268 ; over-feeding, like pam- 

 pering children, 268 ; to be submit- 

 ted to only in extremities, '208 ; bow 

 done, in common hives, 209 ; diili- 

 cult to build up small colonics by, 

 269; equitable division of resources, 

 in, 270 ; when it should be done for 

 Winter, 270 ; what should be used in, 

 270 ; unprofitable in late Fall stocks, 

 270 (note) ; mode of, by means of a 

 feeder, 271 ; water should be supplied, 

 271, 342 ; importance of salt, in, 272 ; 

 sugar-candy a good and cheap article 

 for, '21-1 (and note), and 273 (note); 

 Kieme's mode of using candy, 273, 

 274; value of grape-sugar for, 273; 

 SholZ' sugar-honey for, 274 ; granulaU 

 ed sugar for, 274 (and note) ; quantity 

 of honey needed for, to Winter bees, 



274 • weight of hives, unsafe standard 

 to determine amount of honey for, 



275 (note); caution to be observed in, 

 277 ; should not be too early in the 

 Fall, 298 ; cheap honey, to sell again, 

 unprofitable in, 275. 



Fertility of queens, 32 ; diminishes with 

 age, 141, 223; diminished by hunger 

 and cold, 223 (note 1). 



Fishback, Judge, his precautions to pre- 

 vent loss of young queens, 216 ; his ex- 

 perience with the bee-moth, 240(note). 



Flight of bees, its extent, 305; its rapidity, 

 305 (note 2). 



Flowers for bees, Nutt's catalogue of, 

 298 ; garden, furnish little bee-pasture- 

 297. 



Foul-brood, its malignity, 19, 256; drjg;, 

 and moist, 256 ; remedy, 257, 268 : a 

 disease exclusively of the larvae, 259 ; 

 supposed cause, 256 (note), 259 ; liable 

 to appear the second time, 259. 



Forcing-box, its size and nse, 154, 165. 



p'rames, movable, invented by author, 

 15 ; how they must be made to be 



• lifted out of hive, 150, 171, 209 (note) ; 

 process of removing from the hive, 

 171, 370 (PI. XXrV.); with comb used 

 for patterns, 208 ; effect on bae-culture, 

 211 (note) ; a protection again.st the 

 ravages of the moth, 239, 241 ; render 

 the cleaning of hive easy, 243 ; used 

 by Berlepsch, 321 (note 2) : approved 

 of by Siebold, 321 (note 2); not well 

 adapted to tall hives, 330. 



Frieshmd, East, its productiveness in 

 honey, 304. 



Fruit, honey-bees beneficial to, 85-87 

 wasps and hornets injurious to, 86. 



Fruit-trees, blossoms ofj' yield honey, 



