INDEX 
Q 
QUEEN bee, life history of, 5-7 ; 
chyle food and, 7; mating 
of, 7; egg-laying capacity of, 
7; virgin, and unfertile eggs, 
7, 12; and swarming, 8, 44, 
68, 70; size of, 8; how to 
prevent rearing of, 8; period 
of incubation of, 13; sus- 
ceptibility to cold of, 14; 
hives for rearing, 33; ex- 
cluder, 36; scent of, 48; 
shape of cell of, 49; wing- 
clipping of, 72; exclusion of, 
from super, 74; tearing of, 
75 
Queen-cage, 78 
Queen excluders, 36; use of, 
in driving, 65; use of, in 
supering, 74, 76 
Queen-rearing hives, 33, 65, 75 
Queen-rearing, methods of, 75 
Quilt, its use and material, 32-3 
R 
“ RINGING the swarm,” 63 
Ripening honey, method of, 99 
Rot in wood hives, 24 
“ Rot preventers,” 25 
Rust, and frame ‘ends,’ 29; 
and frame wires, 93 
S 
Scent of bees, 46 ef seq. 
Sections, shallow frames and, 31 ; 
how made, 31; how to work, 
94; how to market, 104 
“ Self-spacers’”’ for bar frames, 
28 
Shaking, a swarm, 70; frames, 
74 
Shallow frames, 30 
123 
Skep hive, development of, 22 ; 
uselessness of, in modern ptac- 
tice, 22; how “taken,” 23; 
“imp” and super for, 23; 
its immunity from fungus and 
tot, 24; how to pack for 
transport, 81 
Slow feeders, 37 
Slugs and the bee-keeper, 117 
Smoker, object and use of, 39- 
40; how to use, 59, 80 
Snails and the bee-keeper, 117 
Soda as remedy for bee sting, 
19 
Spiders in hives, 115 
Spring feeding, 83-6 
Standard frames, sizes of, 28; 
“ends” for, 28-9, 60; 
how to hang, 29; “ wide- 
shouldered,” 29; aS super, 
29, 75.; comb foundation 
and, 92; wiring, 91 
Starvation, symptoms of, 89 
Stimulating, process of, 65 
Sting of bee, as weapon of 
defence, 18; remedy for, 19; 
scent of, 47; safeguards 
against, 59 
Stingless bees, 19 
Straining honey, 100—2 
Super, and queenless stock, or 
weak hive, 5; for skep, 23; 
standard frames as, 29; shal- 
low frames as, 30; what it is, 
31; for use with choked 
brood-nest, 67; of standard 
frames from brood- chamber 
as, 73; removal of, for winter 
feeding, 87; in section work- 
ing, 95 
Swarm, how to handle the, 45, 
69; virgin, 45; “‘ringing”’ 
