LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Water Carriers at Work . . Frontispiece 



Bees searching for a Missing Queen „ 



FACING PAGE 



Drone, Queen, and Worker 16 



Shading a Newly Hived Swarm . 



An Old Style Apiary .... 



A Modern Apiary .... 



A Hive ready to Swarm 



Swarm on a Rose-bush .... 



Converting a Sheet of Wax into Honey 

 comb ...... 



A Swarm on a Rail .... 



And how it was Hived 



Worker Brood ..... 



Drone Brood ...... 



Natural Comb ..... 



Three Stages in the Growth of a Queen 

 Cell ...... 



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