570 



INDEX. 



Newman on uses of honey. .525, 526 

 Norton on outdoor wintering. . .360 

 Notch of the first pair of legs. . 24 



Nucleus 269, 21X 



" for artificial swarnilng..251 



how made 271,273 



prepared in advance. . .275 



small 281 



" strong 275 



Numbering the hives 176 



Nursing glands of workers .. .15, 1 6 

 Nurses 68,69 



Observing hives 184 



for pleasure and 



instruction. .185 

 " in apartments. . .187 



Ocelli of bees 5 



Odor of bees 254, 255 



of drones 53 



" of foul-brood 476,477 



" of the moth 4 98 



" of the poison of bees 38 



" of the queen 283,288 



Oettl, golden rule 556 



" on honey yield 422,423 



on the language of bees. . 34 



" on statistics 42 i 



straw hive 136 



Oil cloth 172 



■Old age, signs of, in bees 82 



Old and young queens living to- 

 gether 52 



Old bee-keepers venom-proof .. 209 



Olfactory organs 11 



" Girard experi- 



ments on. . 13 

 " lead bees to 



flowers. ." 13 



Opening hives 202 



Orphan bees raising queens.... 47 



Otis saw impregnation 55 



Out-apiaries, why 316 



" conditions required 



for. .316 



how many? 317 



" our terms for 317 



Outer-boxes for wintering 359 



Out of doors wintering 34G 



Ovaries of a drone-laying queen 59 



" of the queen 57 



of workers 77 



Overbeck, discovery of origin of 



wax . . 99 



Overstocking 420 



opinions on 426 



Packard on the breathing organs 32 

 " instinct of bees 39 



Pain d'epices 527 



Painting hives 176 



" different colors. .306 



Paley on the sting 36 



Palteau hive 135 



Palpi and maxillee 20 



Parafflne, melting point of. . . .387 



Parsons importation 298 



Parthenogenesis 58, 59 



" proven by Ital- 



ian bees. . 59 

 Pasteur on breeding bacilli. . . .475 



" on inoculation 209 



Pasturage for bees 397 



Patents 177 



Perforated zinc 89,240,441 



Phillips, on the bee-moth 489 



" on queen-rearing . . . .282 



Physiology 1 



Piping of the queen 51, 232 



Poison of the sting 38,207 



sack 35 



Pollen 123 



" baskets 24, 25 



" fresh preferred 124 



gathering, useful to plants 



126, 127 



indispensable to bees 123 



" substitutes 125, 126 



used when bees make 



combs . . 105 



Portico 163, 353, 360 



Pound, how many bees in one. .326 



Press, wax 534 



Prevention of afterswarms 241 



moths in combs. 



498, 502 



" robbing 377 



" swarming 234 



Pridgen, queen-rearing 280 



Production of honey ; . . . .428 



Propolis 110 



hard in Winter Ill 



how to clean from the 



hands. .112 



from other things 112 



on sections 443 



soils the comb Ill 



uses for bees 111. 112 



" " in commerce 114 



Pulvilli 22, 23 



Queen, age at fecundation 54 



" balled 227, 284 



beginning to lay 65 



best conditions to raise. . , 



261, 281 



" cages 283, 284, 325 



clipping wings of. . . .225. 226 

 contents of spermatheca of 56 

 " dejections, licked by work- 

 ers . . 18 



description of 42, 48 



destitute of nursing glands 16 

 " difference in proliflcness of 66 



" does not govern 41 



duration of development of 



48, 50 

 ',' " transforma- 



tions of. . 92 



