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INDEX. 



from bees, how lo treat their 

 mothers, 411. 



Chloroform, bees may be stupified 

 by, 461. 



Clover, white, the most important 

 bee-plant, 384 ; may be profit- 

 ably cultivated for hay, 384 ; 

 grown on wet soil, not so good 

 for bees, 386 ; Swedish, value 

 of, to cattle and bees, 386, 478. 



Clustering of swarms, 156. 



Cocoon, complete one, spun by 

 drone and worker-larvae, 50 ; 

 why that of queen is incomplete, 

 50 ; of larVEe, never removed 

 from cells, 65. 



Cold, protection of bees from, 114; 

 how it may destroy strong colo- 

 nies, 115,472; causes increased 

 activity of bees and consump- 

 tion of honey, 116; weather, 

 caution against disturbing bees 

 in, 326 ; effect of severe and 

 long continued, on colonies, 326 ; 

 water, useful to drive away rob- 

 bing bees, 341. 



Colonies, of bees, rapid increase of, 

 in Australia, (note) 55, caution 

 against, 204, diminishes yield of 

 honey, and makes feeding ne- 

 cessary, 205, 207 ; union of, 

 danger of attempting with first 

 and after-swarms, 213; large 

 numbers of, kept in various 

 places, 398. 

 Color, aids bees in recognizing 



their hive, 186. 

 Columella, directions of, for artifi- 

 cial swarming, 171 ; noticed 

 that Italian bees were more 

 peaceable than the common 

 kind, 477. 

 Comb, when too old, may be easi- 

 ly removed from mov. comb 

 hive, 66 ; very old, sometimes 

 reconstructed by bees, 66 ; fre- 

 quent removal of, unnecessary, 

 66 ; materials of, secreted by 

 bees, after feeding on liquid 

 sweets, 77 ; wood-cuts of, repre- 



.senting different kinds of cells, 

 Plates XlVand XV; empty,great 

 value of, to bee-keeper, 80 ; how 

 to fasten, in hive, for bees, and 

 preserve from bee-raolh, 80 ; 

 when good, should never be 

 melted into wax, 80 ; rapidly re- 

 filled by bees, 80 ; artificial, sug- 

 gestions and experiments on, 81; 

 author's experiments on, to in- 

 duce bees to make it from old 

 wax, 81 ; building of, usually 

 carried on most actively, by 

 mght,82 ; building of and honey- 

 gathering, go on together, 83 ; 

 easy control of, in hive, import- 

 ant, 98 ; in thin hives, often 

 melted in very hot weather, 127; 

 hives not full of, seldom swarm, 

 (note) 138 ; sometimes built by 

 honey-bees on trees, 146 ; empty, 

 how to use to best advantage, 

 155 ; may attract swarms to un- 

 occupied hives, 156 ; worker, 

 built only by colonies having a 

 hatched queen, 173 ; drone, 

 built always by stocks if having 

 an unhatched queen, 173 ; kind 

 of, building, often indicates con- 

 dition of hive, 176 ; importance 

 of author's invention for secur- 

 ing it straight, 196 ; on cling- 

 ing of bees to, when removed 

 from hive, 196 ; how to obtain 

 right kind of, for strengthening 

 stocks, 230 ; easy control of, 

 revolutionizes bee-keeping, 239, 

 and would benefit even those 

 who " take up'' bees, 240 ; un- 

 protected by bees, liable to be 

 infested by bee-moth, 256 ; con- 

 taining brood, always well re- 

 ceived by bees, 258 ; empty, 

 how to protect from bee-moth, 

 259 ; having worker-eggs, en- 

 courages queenless stocks, 295 ; 

 dang'?r of breaking down, when 

 moving new stocks, 304 ; old, 

 not to be rejected, 312 ; how to 

 prepare, for easy inter-communi- 



