XII TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Can woTkeTB use older larva; 1 494. Their growth retarded. 495. 

 Qtieens raised dnriug BwarmiDg fever. 496. Olil workers are poor nurses 

 497. Conditions to raise good queens. 498. When ie the raising of 

 queens necessary ? 499, Loss of the queen. Sna. Unable to fly. 501. 

 Lost in her wedding flight. 502. Entering the wrong hive. 503. Sound 

 advice. 504. Backed hy examples. 605. Bees anticipating danger. 

 506. How they ascertain their loss. 507 Detecting queeolessness. 5<i8. 

 Friendly advice. 509. Drones not killed. 510. Plaintive hum of bees. 

 511. Bearing improved races. 512. Selecting drones. 513. Using 

 m derately populous colonies. 5H . Raising from eggs. 513. Lar^'e 

 number of queen cells. 516, Preparing their reception. 517. How 

 to transfer queen cells, 518. Precautions, 519, Inspection, 520. 

 Nucleus. Sai. Divisible frame , 622. How to prepare nuclei. 533. 

 Beware of bees returning. 521 Making strong nuclei, 535. Prepare 

 on the pi'eceding day. 526, Watching and removing the laying 

 queen. 537. Precautions. 528. Alley's method. 529. Queen nur- 

 series. 530. Lamp nursei-y. 531. Progress of the business of rearing 

 queens. 538. Some advice. 533, Introducing impregnateil queens. 

 534. Conditions of success. .'535, Sprinkling scented water. 536, 

 Queen cage, 537. How to use, 538, Balled queens. 539, Queens 

 starving and Simmins' method. 540. Stupefying bees. 541. Introduce 

 tion of virgin queens. 542. Bees swarming withintroduced queens. 543. 

 How to find a queen. 544. The odor of queens. 



Chapter IX. — Races of Bees. 



54.5. Bees not indigenous to America, 546, First noticed in Florida. 

 547, Bees going westward. 548, Several varieties. 549. The first in- 

 troduced. 550. The main varieties. 551. Italian l«es. 553. Their 

 qualities. 553, Description. 5.14. The best test, 555, Italian drones 

 and queens irregularly marked. 556, Vary even in Italy., 557. First 

 importation in Austria, 558. In America, 559, Apis fasciata. 560. 

 Holy Land and Syrian bees. 561. Apis dorsata, 563. Australian bees. 

 563. Melipones. 



Chaptek X. — The Apiary. 



561. Who should keep bees ? 565, Honey resources, 566, Begin on a 

 small scale, 567, Protect the hives. 568, Avoid weeds. 569, Separ- 

 ate stands. 570, Covered apiaries. 571. Sheds. 572, Out-door apiaries. 

 573. Procuring bees. 574. Transferring, 575, Decoy hives. 576, 

 Drumming. 577. Be sure of having the queen. 578. Tools and Imple- 

 ments. 579, Howto proceed. 580, Spare worker brood. 581. Hed- 

 don method. 583 Out-apiaries. 583, Conditions required. 584. 

 Our terms for a location. 585, How many apiaries ? 586. Honey house 

 and window netting. 



Chapter XI.— Shipping and Transporting Bees. 



587. Ventilation. 588. Fastening frames. 589, Rough handling, 

 590, Sending South. 591. Bees on boats. 592, Floating apiaries. 

 693. Sending to better pastures. 594. Shipping queens, 595. Best 

 food. 696. Bees from Italy. 597. Queen the last tq die. 598. MaiUng 



