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INDEX. 



tirely repressed, 203 ; how to 

 provide for carrying out dead 

 ones, whea non-swarmer is used, 

 203 ; unusual delay of bees, in 

 killing, suspicious, 295 ; actions 

 of, when excluded from hive, 

 296 ; P. J. Mahan's discovery 

 respecting, 296 ; how to raise 

 Italian, late in the season, 477. 



Drumnaing on hive, subdues bees, 

 29, 182 ; swarms made by. ISO- 

 IS?. 



Dunbar, his description of how 

 the queen lays, 47. 



Dysentery, caused by damp hives, 

 117, 472, and want of pure air, 

 127 ; how prevented, 275 ; makes 

 bees cross, 276 ; caused by sour 

 molasses, 352; inclines bees to 

 sting, 409. 



Dzierzon, facts connected with in- 

 vention of his hive, 20 ; apiary of, 

 nearly destroyed by foul-brood, 

 20 ; committee of Apiarian con- 

 vention report favorably on mer- 

 its of, 21 ; creates a revolution in 

 German bee-keeping, 22 ; profits 

 ol his Apiary, 22; discovered 

 office of queen's spermatheca, 

 36, and that untecundated eggs 

 always produce drones, 40 ; theo- 

 ry of, on sex of bees, 40 ; thinks 

 some brood can be raised without 

 pollen, 92 ; discovered meal to be 

 a good substituted for pollen, 94, 

 228 ; plan of, for forming nuclei, 

 221, 222 ; recommends two 

 apiaries, several miles apart, 

 221 ; on the cuUivation of buck- 

 wheat, 388 ; thinks bees are not 

 injuriously disturbed by opening 

 hive, 415 ; opinion of, as to 

 great value of Italian bee, 446 ; 

 method of, for propagating pure 

 Italian variety, 448. 



Eggs, unfecundated, produce 

 drones, 40, 469 ; of bees, Aris- 



totle on size of, 45 ; process of 

 laying, 47 ; description of, 48 ; 

 wood-cut of, PI. ZIII, Fig. 39; 

 queens have power over develop- 

 ment of, 51 ; super-numerary, 

 devoured by workers, 52 ; of 

 bee-moth, how to destroy in 

 empty comb, 260 ; of queen, im- 

 pregnation of, 469 ; of drones, 

 artificial impregnation of, 469. 



Ehrenfield's, profits of his large 

 Apiary, 393. 



Energy of bees, instructive, 220. 



Engravings, see Wood-Cuts. 



Entrance of hive, should not be 

 above level of bottom-board, 

 should admit of being easily 

 varied, without perplexing bees, 

 102 ; should be nearly closed in 

 winter, 473. 



Epitaph on bees killed by sulphur, 

 252. 



Ether, used for stupifying bees,461. 



Evans, Dr., quotations from poem 

 of, on bees, 54, 77, 85, 136, 407, 

 426, 428. 



Experiments, bees necessarily sac- 

 rificed in, 209 ; on a moderate 

 scale, recommended, 210 ; re- 

 quire much labor, 219 ; facilities 

 of mov. comb hive for, (note) 

 476. 



F. 



facts, however wonderful, should 

 be received, 46. 



F^ces, how to make bees in mov. 

 comb hive, safely discharge, 103, 

 331 ; healthy bees do not dis- 

 charge in hive, 116 ; bees loaded 

 withjliable to perish in snow, 328. 



Famine, causes bees to abandon 

 hive, 143. 



Fear, effect of, in subduing bees, 29. 



Feeder, permanent bottom-board 

 of mov. comb hive, answers for, 

 354 ; how to make, cheap and 

 good, 356 ; wood-cut of, PI. XI. 

 Fig. 26; u.sed to supply bees 

 with water, 358. ' , 



