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INDEX. 



times not discovered by bees lor some 

 time, 218 (and note) ; excitement in 

 hive when discovered, 218 ; will not 

 cause bees t« abandon the hive if 

 they are supphed with brood-comb, 

 218 ;*nucleus system will remedy it, 

 219 ; indications of, 219 ; the most 

 common cause of destruction of stocks 

 by bee-moth, 219. 

 Lunenburg, number of colonies of bees 

 in, 302; bees of, more than pay all the 

 taxes, 302. 



Mahan, F. J., on causing bees to adhere 

 to new locations, 163 (note) ; interest- 

 ing observations of, 219 (note) ; his 

 discovery that drones leave their 

 hives with honey and return without 

 any, 224; on the odor of the queen, 

 226 (note 2). 



Maple-tree a source of honey, 292, 



Maraldi, anecdote from, of bees and a 

 snail, 78. 



Materials for hives, 331. 



Meal, a substitute for pollen, 84, 219. 



Medicine, poison of bee, used for, 315 

 (note) . 



Mice, ravages of, and protection against, 

 252. 



Miller, see Bee-moth. 



Mills, John, on marking hives with dif- 

 ferent colors, 216 (note). 



Mixing of bees, of different colonies, 203 ; 

 precautions concerning, 203. 



Months of the year, direction for treating 

 bees in, 362-369. 



Moonlight, bees sometimes gather honey 

 by, 73 (note). 



More, Sir J., on the sovereign virtues of 

 honey, 287 (note). 



Moth, see Bee-moth. 



Moth, death-head, 240 (note). 



Moth, large honey-eating, from Ohio, 241 

 (note). 



Mothers, unkind treatment of, reproved 

 by bees, 312. 



Mother-stock, in forced swarming, easily 

 supplied with fertile queen, 182 ; ex- 

 posed to perish without a prompt sup- 

 ply of queen, and by oves swarming, 

 if left to supply itself, 182 ; also to be 

 robbed, 182 ; advantage of supplying 

 with fertile queen, 183. 



Moth-proof hives a delusion, 228, 238, 

 247. 



Moths, honey-eating, ravages of, 240 

 (and note)". 



Motions, in operating on hives should be 

 deliberate, 170. 



Movable-comb hive, invention of 13-23 ; 

 superiority to Dzierzon's,16, 18; ena- 

 bles each bee-keeper to observe for 



himself, 23, 164 j admits of easy re- 

 moval of old comb, 60 ; bees in it 

 easily sup^plied with empty comb, 71 ; 

 its facihties for ventilation, 94, 276 

 (note 1) ; size of, adjustable to the 

 wants of colony, 96, 329 ; facilities of, 

 for securing surplus honey, 100, 289, 

 329 ; advantages of, for preventing 

 after-swarming, 124, 140 ; enables one 

 person to superintend various colo- 

 nies, 102, 226 ; not easily blown down, 

 103 ; may be made secure against 

 mice, 103, 252, and thieves, 104 ; dura- 

 bility of, 104 ; cheapness and simplic- 

 ity of, 105 ; some desirables it does 

 not possess, 106 : invention of, result 

 of experience, 105 ; perfection dis- 

 claimed for, 105 ; merits of, submitted 

 to experienced bee-keepers, 108; de- 

 sertion of, by swarms, easily prevent- 

 ed, 115 ; by use of, can employ all 

 good worker comb, 130; furnishes 

 storage-room for non-swarming bees, 

 139 ; importance of, in supplying ex- 

 tra queens, 141, 188 ; easily cleared of 

 the bee-moth, 246 ; best for non- 

 swarming plan, 153 ; enables the api- 

 arian to learn tuc laws regulating the 

 internal economy of bees, 164 ; ena- 

 bles artificial swarming to be quiclily 

 performed, 164 ; advantages of mov. 

 able top of, 168 ; affords facilities for 

 supply of fertile queens to mother 

 stocks, in forced swarming, 182, 192 ; 

 danger of being stung, diminished by 

 use of, 209 ; the greatest obstacle to 

 its speedy introduction, 209 ; the au- 

 thor sanguine of its extensive use by 

 skilful bee-keepers, 211 ; should be 

 thoroughly examined in Spring, 221 ; 

 durable and cheap, if properly taken 

 care of, 221 ; advantages of, readily 

 perceived by intelligent bee-keepers, 

 226 ; adaptation of, to protect stocks 

 from the moth, 249 ; enables the apia- 

 rian to know the amount of honey 

 stocks contain, 275 (note) ; how pre- 

 pared for transporting bees, 281 ; to 

 transfer into, from common hive, 283 ; 

 designed to economize the labor of 

 bees, 305 ; experiments concerning the 

 size of, 330 (note 3) ; suggestions as to 

 making, 332 ; observing, 332 ; how to 

 get honey in centre of, for Winter, 336; 

 how to make Winter passages in combs 

 of, 337 (and note 1) ; how to ventilate, 

 in Winter, 338 ; bills of stock, for mak- 

 ing, 371. 



Movable entrance blocks, sec Blocks, 

 entrance regulating. 



Movable bottom-boards, dangerous, 231. 



Movable stands for hives, 279. 



Moving stocks, 281. 



Munn, W. A., his "bar and frame 

 hive," 209 (note). 



Musk, used to stop robbing, 266 (note). 



