INDEX. 



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made over populous for Winter, 

 315 i small, how to winter in 

 mov. comb hive, 318; doubled, 

 winter well, 320 ; strong, olten 

 most disposed to rob, and com- 

 pared to rich oppressors, 335 ; 

 feeble or queenless, quickly 

 found out by robbers, 336 ; 

 strong, may be ruined by unskill- 

 ful attempts to prevent robbing, 

 343 ; small, liow to build up, by 

 feeding, 350 ; how far increase 

 of, may be ordinarily carried, 

 without feeding, 352 ; very 

 small, should be broken up in 

 Fall, 351, 456. 



Stocks, Union of, see Union of 

 Colonies. 



Stomach of worker, wood-cut of, 

 PI. XVII, Fig. 54. 



Storsch, Count, his account of a 

 superannuated queen, 278. 



Stoves, air-tight, deficient in ven- 

 tilation, 131 I Franklin, a good 

 kind of, (note) 131. 



Straw mattmg, use of, for protect- 

 ing hTVeS^, €34. 



Sugar-Candy, see Candy. 



Sugar-water, use of, to pacify 

 bees, 28, Wi, 1H4 ; scented, use 

 of, for uniting colonies, 316. 



Sulphur, use of, in killing eggs 

 and worms of bee-moth, 80. 



Sun, heat of, important to bees, in 

 Spring, 122; in Summer, very 

 injurious to thin hives, 127 ; 

 hives for new swarms, should 

 not be exposed to, 155. 



Sunday, swarming on, how pre- 

 vented, 202, 485. 



Superstiiions about bees, 89. 



Surplus Honey,see Honey,Surplus. 



Swallow, address of Grecian poet, 

 to a bee-eating, 274. 



Swammerdam, great merits of, 

 as an observer, (note) 72 ; his 

 drawing of queen's ovaries, PI. 

 XVIII. 



Swarm, number of bees in a good 

 one, 59 ; feeble, how to strength- 



en in mov. comb hive, 107 ; 

 will settle without tanging, 141 ; 

 more inclined to fly away, if 

 bees are neglected, 141 ; how to 

 prevent, from deserting a new 

 hive, 142 ; how to arrest a fugi- 

 tive, 142 ; how to know whether 

 it intends to stay or not, 142 ; 

 clustering of, before departure, 

 of special benefit to man, 144; 

 can be made to alight on u se- 

 lected spot, 144 ; when cluster- 

 ed, sends out scouts, 145 ; how 

 parent hive is re-populated, after 

 departure of, 147 ; is composed 

 of j'oung and old bees, 147 ; 

 none of bees composing, return 

 to parent hive, 147,224 ; a tirst, 

 may throw a swarm in a few 

 weeks, 154 ; sometimes goes 

 into hive having empty combs 

 but very seldom, of its own ac- 

 cord, into an empty hive, 156 ; 

 small trees, convenient for clus- 

 tering of, 156 ; hiving of, should 

 not be long delayed, 157 ; more 

 than one, often alight together, 

 (note) 160 ; should be put on 

 intended stand, as soon as hived, 

 160 ; late or feeble, usually of 

 little value in common hive, but 

 can be strengthened in mov. 

 comb hive, 164 ; rapid decrease 

 of bees of, soon after hiving, 

 176 ; how to make one new, 

 from two old oges, 211 ; how to 

 double safely, 212 ; doubled, 

 apt to build excess of drone 

 comb; 231 ; large, usually yields 

 much surplus honey, 231 ; how 

 to manage, so as to set it in 

 place of parent stock, 291, 479; 

 queenle.ss, should be broken up, 

 if no queen can be given, 294 ; 

 builds worker-comb, if queen is 

 mature, even though unfertile, 

 294 ; how to procure, from a 

 distance, and then transfer to a 

 suitable hive, 305; when very 

 early, may need feeding, 460 ; 



