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•INDEX. 



T. 



Table, illustrating the increase of stocks 

 by artificial swarming,. 185; of form- 

 ing nuclei, 191. 



"Taking up bees," facilitated by mov. 

 comb hive, 209 ; suggestions as to 

 time of, 306 (note). 



Temperature of hive, rises at time of 

 swarming, 130. 



Theories often fail, when put to a prac- 

 tical test, 175 (note). 



Thistle, Canada, a good bee-plant, 

 296. 



Thompson, poetical extract from, upon 

 killing bees, 239 ; on bees in linden 

 trees, 293, 



Thorley, John, first stupefied bees by 

 piiff-ball smoke, 210. 



Tidd, M. M-, his experiment on a female 

 moth, 230 (note 2) ; notices the differ- 

 ence betwoen tongue of the male and 

 female moth, 230. 



Time of bees, economized in mov. comb 

 hive, 95, 96 ; importance of saving, 

 305. 



Timid persons may safely remove sur- 

 plus honey, 289-291 ; should use bee- 

 dress while hiving bees, 132,154; often 

 stung while other persons seldom are, 

 168 ; some should not attempt to rear 

 bees, 209. 



Toad, eats bees, 254. 



Tobacco, should not be used for subdu- 

 ing bees, 169. 



Top-boxes, for surplus honey, should he 

 used with caution, 330 (note). 



Transferring bees from common to mov. 

 comb hive, 282-284 ; mode of, 282 ; 

 best time for, 283 ; results of, 2U. 



Transportation of bees, easy in mov. 

 comb hive, 281. 



Traps for moths, usually worthless, 

 244. 



Trees, combs built on, hy bees, 118 ; 

 apiaries should be near, 131 ; substi- 

 tute for, 131 ; limbs of, need not be cut, 

 in hiving bees, 133 ; shade of, agree- 

 able to bees, 2?0 ; honey-producing 

 292. 



Tulip (poplar, or white wood), tree yields 

 great quantities of honey, 292. 



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Union of colonies, facilitated by giving 



them the same smell, 203 ; mode of, 



203, 20-1 ; for wintering, 336. 

 Unbelief in revelation not prompted by 



true philosophy, 52. 

 Uncleanly persons disagreeable to bees, 



313. 



Varnish, used by bees in place of propo- 

 lis, 80. 



Varro, his remark, that bees in large 

 hives become dispirited, 208. 



Ventilation, furnished to larvse by shape 

 of cells, 75 ; of the hive, 88-94 ; pro- 

 duced by the fanning of bees, 88 ; 

 Huber on, 88; its necessity, 89; re- 

 marks on, in human dwellings, 91^ 

 provided for and easily controlled ia 

 mov. comb hive, 93, 94; artificial, 

 must boi simple to be useful, 93 ; 

 should be attended to, after swarming, 

 124 ; ample, should be given, while 

 bees are storing honey, 288, 366 ; how 

 to give, in Winter, 338; upward, needed 

 in Winter, 338, 340 (note), 241, 360. 



Vice, effect of, on man, compared to ra- 

 vages of the moth, 235. 



Virgil, described the Itahan bee, 318. 



_W. 



Wagner, Samuel, letter of, on mov. comb 

 hive, 17-18 ; tlieory of, on how queen 

 determines sex of egg, 38 ; his account 

 of bees building comb on a tree, 118 ; 

 on the effect of soil on the quality 

 of honey-yielding plants, 294 (note) ; 

 on the Swedish white clover, for bees 

 and stock, 295 ; letter of, on over- 

 stocking, 300 ; letter of, on the Italian 

 bee, 317 ; extracts from, on preserving 

 the purity of the Italian bee, 323 

 (notes) ; states a remarkable fact con- 

 corning hybrid bees, 324 (note 2) ; at- 

 tempt of, to import Italian bee, 328 

 (note) ; translation of Scholtz on win- 

 tering bees, 348-360. 



War, how waged by different colonies, 

 263, 



Wasps, fecundation of, 35 ; injure fruit, 

 86 ; should be destroyed in Spring, 87; 

 torpid in Winttr, 109. 



Water, necessary to bo supplied for boes 

 confined, 189 (and note) : the refusal 

 of, in Spring, by bees, indicative of a 

 queenless colony, 219 (and note); cold, 

 useful in checking robbery, 266 ; in- 

 dispensable to bees when building 

 comb, or rearing brood, 271, 342-346 ; 

 bees need, in cold weather, 342-346: 

 advantages of giving, to bees in cold 

 Springs, 343 



Wax, scaler of, wood-cuts, PI. Xni.,Figs. 

 37 and 38 ; secreted from honey. 69, 

 275 ; pouches for, 69 ; wood^cut of, PI. 

 Xm., Fig. 38: Huber's experiments 

 on secretion of, 69 ; pollen may aid its 

 secretion, 70 ; its elements, 71 ; large 

 quantity of honey consumed in secre- 

 tion of, 71 ; shavings of, used by bees, 

 to build new comb, 72 ; a bad con- 

 ductor of heat, 73 ; pollen useful in its 

 secretion, 82, 197 ; origin of, discovered 

 by Hornbostel, 204 (note); the food of 

 the larvEB of the bee-moth, 233, 247 ; 

 how to render, from comb, 288. 



