INDEX. 



521 



Hiving bees, (Jirections for, 154- 

 162 ; expertnessin, makes pleas- 

 ant, 154 ; should be done prompt- 

 ly, 157 ; basket for, 157 ; sheet 

 for, how arranged, 157, 158 ; 

 how to expedite, 158 ; process 

 of, must be repeated, when queen 

 not secured, 158 ; when swarm 

 alights in dilficult place, or when 

 two swarms alight together, 159 ; 

 old-fashioned mode of, bad, 160 ; 

 when done, remove swarms to 

 proper stands, 160 ; how to se- 

 cure queen in, Jlil ; how to 

 manage, when no hive ready, 

 161. 



Holbrook, Hon. F., on cultivation 

 of white clover, 384. 



Honey, analysis of, 79 ; much con- 

 sumed in secretion of wax, 79, 

 355 ; gathered sometimes by 

 moonlight, rnote) 82 ; gathering 

 of, and como-building, go on to- 

 gether, 8S ; how to secure large 

 quantity of, for feeding destitute 

 stocks, 105 ; amount of, consum- 

 ed by bees, proportioned to their 

 exercise, 116; United States, 

 favorable to production of, 118 ; 

 hives often deficient in storage- 

 room for, 165 ; how to get room 

 for storage of, in mov. comb 

 hive, 165 ; how bees filled with, 

 are received by strange colonies, 

 181 ; over-supply of, which 

 checks breeding, may be remov- 

 ed, in mov. comb hive, 201, 353; 

 drones, great consumers of, 202 ; 

 yield of, diminished by rapid in- 

 crease of colonies, 205, 207, and 

 by disturbing bees, 209 ; stocks 

 over-breeding, often deficient in, 

 228; large quantities of, often 

 obtained from doubled swarms, 

 231; diminished yield of, as- 

 cribed to wrong causes, 249; 

 large stores of, in hives with- 

 out bees, ,264 ; largest yield of, 

 usually! secured by increasing 

 colonies one third, 320 ; when 



non-swarming hives yield, the 

 most, 320 ; bees consume much, 

 in Spring, 321 ; how to make 

 bees concentrate, for winter use, 

 326 ; bees not disposed to rob, 

 when it is abundant, 342 ; hives 

 should be opened very cautiously 

 when bees are not gathering, 

 342 ; worse than wasted, by 

 over-feeding in Spring, 347 ; 

 unsealed, liable to injure iDeesby 

 souring, in cold weather, 352 ; 

 excess of, in Spring, should be 

 removed, 353 ; West India, how 

 to prepare for feeding, 354 ; 

 sugar-candy, the best substitute 

 for, as a bee-feed, 358, 470 ; 

 quantity of, for wintering a colo- 

 ny, 361; difficulty of estimating 

 amount of, in common hives, 

 361 ; fed to bees, cannot be sold 

 to profit, 362, 366 ; West India, 

 stored in comb, unsalable, 362 ; 

 bees gather, but do not secrete, 

 363, 371 ; each kind of, has its 

 own flavor, 363 ; stored in comb, 

 as soon as gathered, 363 ; thin- 

 ned too much, makes more work 

 for bees, 364 ; sale of an inferior 

 article, in white comb, a fraud 

 365 ; liquid, how to make a nice 

 article of, 366 ; liquid, danger of 

 exposing to bees, 367 ; remarks 

 on, 371-382; some kinds of, 

 poisonous, 374 ; unsealed, some- 

 times hurtful, if not boiled, 374 ; 

 improves by age, 374 ; how to 

 secure from injury, when taken 

 from care of bees, 374 ; how to 

 drain from comb, 375 ; sources 

 of, 382 ; yield of, by plants, un- 

 certain, 386, 391 ; large quantity 

 of, gathered by a colony, in a 

 day, 398 ; how to prevent steal- 

 ing of, 415 ; USB of, recommend- 

 by Solomon, (note) 457. 



Honey-Bag, worker's, wood-cut of, 

 PI. XVli, Fig. :4. 



Honey-Board, spare, holes in, left 

 open, in Winter, 435, 471-476:. 



