200 



Advanced Bee Culture 



Brood-combs from Starters, How to 



Get 63, 63 



Brood-nest, Contraction of 56-58 



Buckwheat Regions of New York. . 26 

 Business, Large vs. Small One.. -7, 8, 9 



Cage for Introducing on a Comb... 75 

 Caging Queen to Prevent Swarms. 67 



California, Immense Crops in 26 



Candied Honey, Liquefying 106 



Candied-honey Packages, Aikin's. . . .111 

 Candied Honey put up Like Butter.. 112 



Candy for Winter Feeding 188 



Cane Sugar has no Superior for 



Wintering 166 



Cans, Filling with Extracted Honey. 107 

 Cans for Storing Extracted Honey 



106, 107 



Cappings, Melting of 157, 158 



Cappings, What to do with Them... 102 

 Cards for Record-keeping of Colon- 

 ies 30 



Carniolans too Inclined to Swarm... 29 

 Caution about Liquefying Candied 



Honey 106 



Caution in Feeding Honey 86 



Caution in Introducing Queen from 



a Distance 77 



Caution Label on Comb-honey Cases. 109 

 Cellar, Arrangement of Colonies in..l86 

 Cellar Bees, Stirred up by Warm 



Days 193 



Cellar, How Soon to Remove Bees 



from 190 



Cellar, How to Build a Cheap One. 179 



Cellar, Odor in 193 



Cellars Entirely Below Ground or 



Partly Above Ground 178, 179 



Cellars in Clay More DiiBcult to 



Keep Dry ' 177 



Cellars, Ventilation of 177 



Cellar, Temperature at the Top 186 



Cellar, Using for Extracting Room. 181 

 Cellar, When Wintering Bees Well. 182 



Cellar- wintering at out-apiaries 130 



Cellar, Wintering, Dampness, When 



not Prejudicial 175 



Chaff Hive not Equal to Single- Wall- 

 ed Hive and Winter-case 35 



Choice of Hives 33, 33, 34.35 



Circular Sent out to Honey-Buyers. 116 



Clamps, Wintering in 186 



Clay for Stopping up Cracks in a 



Hive 96 



Cleats upon the Sides of Hives 47 



Closed-end Frames 34 



Clothes-basket for catching Swarms. 71 

 Clothing for Bee-keepers, Light-col- 

 ored 48 



Coggshall Bee-brush 51 



Coggshall, Specialist Bee-keeper 11 



Colonies, Arrangement of in Cellar. 186 

 Colonies for Feeding Back 81 



Colorado Cure for Foul Brood 144 



Colors of Hives 54, 55 



Comb-builders Poor 30 



Comb-building by Bees 59, 60 



Comb-building not Keeping Pace 



with the Honey-flow 63 



Comb-building, When Worker and 



When Drone 61 



Comb Foundation, Use and Abuse 



of 59-63 



Comb-honey Marketing and Ship- 

 ping 109 



Comb-honey Packed in Crates 109 



Comb-honey Production 87-91 



Comb-honey Production ; Importance 



of Large Entrances and Shade... 91 

 Comb-honey Production over Foun- 

 dation in the Brood-nest 60-61 



Comb-honey Production, Strong Col- 

 onies for 87 



Comb-honey Production With or 



Without Separators 41 



Comb-honey Stored by One Colony. .148 

 Comb or Extracted Honey, Which?. 26 

 Combs, Importance of Big Supply of 



for Extracted Honey 93 



Combs Objectionable for Swarms... 59 

 Combs, Old, Rendering Into Wax... 158 

 Combs Should be Interchangeable... 62 

 Comforts and Conveniences in the 



Apiary 47-51 



Contracting for Feeding Back 81 



Contraction as a Means of Prevent- 

 ing Increase 67 



Contraction, Extensive, Causing 



Swarming 57 



Contraction for the Prevention of 



Drone-comb 61, 62 



Contraction of the Brood-nest 56-58 



Contraction of the Divisible-brood- 

 chamber Hive 35 



Contraction Resulting in Small 



Swarms 53 



Contraction When not Needed 56 



Conveniences in the Apiary 47 



Covers of a Plain Simple Board 32 



Crane's Method of Grouping Hives. 



, ■ 44, 45 



'Lross-lmmg" of Bees ig 



Cyprians and Syrians Undesirable... 29 



Dampness, H(.nv it Affects Tempera- 

 ture 173 



Dampness, in Cellar, How :\Ieasured.l76 

 Dampness, When Prejudicial to Cel- 

 lar-wintering 175 



Dead Brood not Necessarily Foul 



Brood 137 



Decoy Hives 15 



Divisible-brood-chamber Hives ...34, 35 



Doors of Honey-houses ' 47 



Drawn Combs for Comb-honey Su- 

 P^t-s 88 



