INDEX. 



Page. 



88 



on eggs 60 



on foul-brood 473 



on fruit 19 



on Italian bees 292 



on moth 489 



on pollen 125 



on robber-bees 375 



on scent of the queen.. 288 



on strong odors 206 



on water 370 



Artificial swarming 243 



advices on. .253 



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Abbott metal spacer 170 | Aristotle, on drones 



Absconding swarms 233 



Adobe for hives 177 



Adulteration, of beeswax 387 



of honey 518 i 



Afterswarming 230 



Afterswarms, prevention of. 241, 242 

 " superiority of. . . .233 



" objections to 233 



Age of the queen when fecun- 

 dated 53 



Age sign of old, in bees 80-82 



Air, see Ventilation 179 



Alexander, on overstocking 423 



Alley, drone trap 89 



mailing queens 324 



" method of queen-rearing 



276, 277 



on impregnation 54 



Alighting-board, see Apron 16G 



Alsike clover 403 



American frames 153 



Ammonia for stings 208 



Anger of bees 189, 205 



Antennse 7 



bees cannot live without 14 



cutting of the 14-15 



as organs of hearing. ... 10 

 " as organs for smelling.. 11 

 experiments of Huber on 



the . . 9 



caution about 



255. 251^ 

 " by dividing. 24i 



" by driving 



bees. 247 

 " by removing 



the hive. 246 

 " improved . . 249 



nucleus 



method. 251 

 with queens 

 already reared. 250, 252 

 with queen- 

 cells. 251 

 " increasing 



too fast.25G 



Association of bee-keepers 543 



Australian bees 299 



Ants about the hive 506 Austria, yield of honey 42 4 



fondness for honey 509 1 Automatic extractor 469 



their fecundity 41 1 Axioms, bee-keepers* 553 



Aphides, Parthenogenesis of the 61 j 

 causes of honey dew | 



119, 120 Bacillus alvei, see Foul-brood 



Apiaries, covered 306 Bait, in sections 4 37 



out of doors 303 ; Baldenstein, on Italian bees , . . 297 



sheds for 306 



Apiary 301 



" slow motions around the.. 199 



Apifuge 195 



Apis dorsata 300 



Apis fasciata 29S 



Apis ligustica 293 



Balled queens 227, 284 



Bar-hives 135, 136, 140, 244 



Barbo ' IX 



Barrels for honev 



469. 470, 512, 514 



Bass wood, see Linden 



Bears and bees 505 



Apis melliflca 292 Beaunier on the production of 



Apron, or alighting-board 166 I wax 99 



560 



