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INDEX. 



tity consumed in secreting wax, 71, 

 176 ; gathered by day, 72 ; sometimes 

 gathered by moonlight, 73 (note) ; 

 honey -gathering and comb building 

 simultaneous, 73 ; surplus, incompati- 

 ble with rapid increase of colonies, 176 ; 

 how to secure the largest yield of, 180 ; 

 more abundant fifty years ago than 

 now, 236 ; reasons assigned for the 

 deficiency, 237 ; foreign, supposed 

 cause of foul brood, 256, 258; from 

 foul-brood colonies, infectious, 256 

 (note 2) : infected, now purified, 257 ; 

 West India, used for bee-feed, 256 

 (note) , 270 ; and sugar (Sholz' com- 

 position) , 274 ; quantity of, necessary 

 for wintering stocks, 274 ; poor, not 

 convertible into good, 375 j not a secre- 

 tion of the bee, 275 (and note 2) ; re- 

 tains the flavor of the blossoms from 

 whence it is taken, 275 ; evaporation 

 produces the principal changes in, 276 

 (and note 1) ; " making over" honey 

 not profitable, 276 ; recipe for artificial, 

 276 (note) : a vegetable product, 285 ; 

 quahties of, vary^ 387 ; hurtful quali- 

 ties cured by boihug, 287 (and note) ; 

 should not be exposed to low tem- 

 perature, 287 ; old, more wholesome 

 than new, 237 ; virtues ascribed to it 

 by old writers, 287 (note) ; to drain 

 from the comb^ 288, 366 ; to make 

 liquid when candied,-2S8 ; caution as to 

 West India, 288 (note) ; of Hyraettus, 

 233 (note) ; yield of, alfucted by soil, 

 294 (note) ; from the raspberry, deh- 

 ciousy296 ; yield of, by plants uncer- 

 tain, 238 (note 2) : large amount gath- 

 ered in a day, 303 ; on the hands, pro- 

 tects them against bee-stings, 317 ; 

 bees eat less in Winter, when kept 

 quiet, 335, 348, 358; how to get in 

 centre of hive, for Winter, 336 ; can- 

 died, bees need water to dissolve, 342- 

 344. 



Honey-bag, worker's, 56 (PI. XVH., Fig. 

 54). 



Honey-bees, see Bees. 



Honey-board, spare, holes in, left open 

 in Winter, 338 ; sometimes strongly 

 glued by bees, 172 (note) ; care in 

 placing necessary, 173. 



Honey-dews, 2S5 ; of California, 285 

 ' (note) ; when most abundant and 

 where found, 286. 



Honey- hornets, Mexican, 58 (note) 87. 



Honey-resources, how to increase, 293. 



Honey-suckle, juice of, a remedy for bee-- 

 stings, 315. 



Honey, surplus, much, incompatible with 

 rapid multiplication of stocks, 176, 178 ; 

 best yield of, from undisturbed stocks, 

 180 ; receptacles for, when to admit 

 bees to, 288, 364 ; how secured, 289 ; 

 quantity from one stock, 289 (note 2) ; 

 large boxes more profitable than small, 



for, 289 (and note 21, 230 (note 1) ; 

 glass vessels and small boxes, for, 290, 

 air-tight boxes, to preserve, 290 (note 

 2) ; receptacles of, how and when ^ 

 remove them, 291,365 ; boxes for, bees 

 reluctant to fill, late in the season, 306. 



Honey-water, objectionable for snbduing 

 bees, 169 (note). 



Hornets, fecundation of, 35 ; Mexican, 

 honey, 58 (note), 87 ; iiyure fruit, 86 ; 

 should be destroyed in Spring, 87 ; tor- 

 pid in Wmter, 109. 



Horses sweaty, very offensive to bees, 

 279, 313. 



Horticulturists, honey-bees their friends, 

 85, 87. 



Houses, ventilation of, neglected, 91. 



Huber, Francis, tribute to, 32-34; dis- 

 covered how queens are impregnated, 

 34 ; that unfecunded queens produce 

 only drones, 36; experiments of, to 

 test the secretion of wax, 69 ; to show 

 the use of pollen, 80 ; his discovery of 

 ventilation by bees, 88 j his supposition 

 as to development in queen of male 

 eggs, 128 (note) ; his plan for artificial 

 swarming and its objections, 148; effect 

 of his leaf hive in pacifying bees, 168 ; 

 his mistake as to the cause, 169 ; an in- 

 convenience of his bive, 171 (note) ; his 

 description of workers, 192 (note 2) ; 

 his curious experiments, showing a dis- 

 tinction among them, 193 (note) ; his 

 tribute to Burncns,l'H (note) ; nis ac- 

 count of the treatment by bees of 

 strange queens, 200 ; his trial of two 

 queens in a hive, 207 (note) ; splendid 

 discoveries of, formerly ridiculed, 211. 



Humble-bee robbed by honey-bees, 262. 



Hunger impairs fertility of queeu-bee, 

 233 (notel). 



Hunt, Rev. T. P., his mode of securing 

 swarms, 132. 



Hunter, Dr., discovers pollen in the 

 stomach of bees, SO. 



Hurting bees, important to avoid, 95. 



Hyginus, on feeding bees, 267 (note). 



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Impreg:nation, of queen-bees, 34^43 ; re- 

 tarded, effect of, 36 ; remarkable law 

 of, in aphides, 42 ■ takes place in the 

 air, 50, 320 ; act of, fatal to drone, 125, 

 126 (note) ; Shrimplin's experiment 

 illustrative of, 127. 



Italian honey-bees, 41 ; singular result 

 of crossing with common drones, 41, 

 324 (note 2) ; used to show a division 

 of labor among bees, 194; account of 

 318-328 ; described by Aristotle and 

 Virgil, 318 ; Mr. Wagner's letter on 

 318 ; their modern introduction to -no- 

 tice, 318 ; value of, in the study of the 

 physiology of the honey-bee, 319 ; 

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