INDEX. 



625 



in Winter, 323, 473, 476, 482 ; 

 how to protect, when not doubled, 

 against cold, 32li, 474; how to 

 clean boliom-boards of, in cold 

 weather, 327 ; how to manage, 

 when f[r>t taken out of Winter 

 quarters, 334, 476 ; how to pre- 

 vent, from being robbed, 340 ; 

 easy to ascertain in, when feed- 

 ing is needed, 345 ; permit feed- 

 ing wealr stocks, from surplus of 

 strong ones, 353 ; excess of 

 honey in, easily removed, 353 ; 

 permit feeding without a feeder, 

 354 ; how to feed bees in, 355 ; 

 how to manage top-feeding in, 

 356 ; how to feed candy in, 359, 

 470, 478 ; how to lake surplus 

 honey from, 376-381 ; how to 

 manufacture, cheaply, 435 ; 

 artificial swarms made in, by 

 driving bees into upper cover, 

 461 ; advantages of for winter- 

 ing bees, 471-478 ; bills of stock 

 for making various kinds of, 

 481-194; wood-cuts of various 

 patierns of. Plates I to X. 



Moving stocks, how to manage, 

 without loss of bees, 303 ; how 

 to prepare stocks for, 303. 



Musk, used to stop robbing, 416, 

 and to unite colonies, 417. 



N. 



Natural Swarming, and hiving of 

 swarms, 136-166; not an un- 

 natural occurrence, 137, 138 ; 

 seldom takes place, except in 

 Southern climates, when hives 

 are not well filled with combs, 

 (note) 138 ; season of, in Nortli- 

 ern States, 138; first swarm in, 

 led off by old queen, 139; signs 

 of, 139 ; time of day of, 140 ; 

 qneen bees often lost, in, 140 ; 

 preparation of bees for, 140; 

 ringing of bells or tanging, in, 

 useless, 141 ; how to slop a 



tions for making more profitable, 

 162-165; occurs earlier in well- 

 protected hives, 162; excessive, 

 prevented by mov. comb hive, 

 163; loss of queens in, reme- 

 died by mov. comb hive, 164 ; 

 difficulties inherent to, in all 

 hives, 166-171 ; loss of swarms 

 cau.sed by, 166 ; wastes time and 

 labor, 167 ; unprofitable to those 

 much away from Apiary, 167 ; 

 unfavorable to establishment of 

 large Apiaries, 168 ; an uncer. 

 tain reliance for increasing an 

 Apiary, 169; how to manage, 

 in very compact Apiaries, 291. 



New England Farmer, extract 

 from, on Author's observing 

 hive, 234; on cultivation of 

 while clover, 384. 



Non-Swarmer, Author's, can be 

 applied to any hive, 318; use 

 of.proposed for preventing excess 

 of pollen, 319 ; use of, in propaga- 

 ting Italian bees, 454 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 485. 



Non-Swarming, colonies, how to 

 manage, in mov. comb hive, 

 318; objection to, removed, 319 ; 

 when it yields most honey, 320. 



Nuclei, or small colonies, how 

 formed, 215; made by shutting 

 up bees with brood-comb, 215 ; 

 should be protected from exces- 

 sive heat, 216 ; may be made 

 to raise their own queen, 216 ; 

 formed by slightly changing po- 

 sition of stocks, 216; require 

 clustered bees on brood-comb, 

 217; attempts to make, some- 

 times unsuccessful, 217 ; Dzier- 

 zon's methods of forming, 221- 

 222 ; how to form, from natural 

 or forced swarms, 223 ; how to 

 manage, to make strong stocks 

 of, 225 ; where to put, wheu 

 they have unfertile queens, 225 ; 

 danger of forming too many, 

 227 ; old stocks must not be 

 over taxed, in making of, 227. 



