TABLE OF CONTENTS. XI 



Slowmotions. 3»S. Old procopte. 3»i. Fear of stings a great olietaclo. 

 395. Lijht bewilders bees. S»«. Care in uslug amoko. a07. How to 

 proceeil. 3»s. Returning combs. 399. Mismanagement. 400. Bad 

 odore anger bees. 401. Iffeft ot their poison. 403. Remedies. 403. 

 Cold water and ammonia 404. Old bee-keepers poison-proof. 405. 

 Bees as means of defense. 



Chapter VI. — Natural Swarming. 



40a. Preparations. 4"7. Not in season. 408. When effected. 409. 

 Firstswavm. 410. Conditions and hour. 411. Lastpreparations. 413. 

 Queen missing. 413. Ringing bells useless. 414. Deportment of bees. 

 415. Bees seud scouts. 416. Various incidents. 417. Alluring swarms. 

 418. Be' 8 generally peacifnl when swarming. 419. No delay in hiving. 

 430. Departing swavms . 131. Have hives ready and cool. 433. Hives 

 fumishtd with combs. 433. Beware of honey. 434. Comb guides 425. 

 .Advantages of combs or comb foundation. 426. Securing straight 

 combs in the brood chamber. 437. F.nlarging the entrance. 428. B. es 

 on a small limb. 4'i9 Swarm sack. 430. Be cautious. 431. Sack 

 pTeferal)le tol asket 433. Swarm on a trunk. 433. Catching the queen 

 434. Clipping wing of the qu' en 435. Swarms mixing. 436. Two 

 queens in the same swarm. 437. Ten swarms mixed. 438 Securing 

 the (lueeu in hiving a swarm. 439 Swarms temporarily hived . 440. Put 

 in place assoonashived. 441 Feeding swarms. 443. Building straiglit 

 combs. 413 Primary swarms with young queens 444 Secondary 

 swarms. 445 Their causes. 446. Pipin:^ of the queens 447. Several 

 queens in the swarm. 44T (bis) . Superiority of aftev-swarms . 448. 

 Absconding swarms. 449. Third swarms. 450 Prevention of natural 

 swarming, its desirability. 451. Excessive natural swarming 453. 

 Natural swarming and selection. 453. Too many swarms lost 454. 

 Causes of swarming 455. Swarming fever 456. Heat a stimulus 

 457. Dronesalso. 458. Lack of ventilation. 459. Giving empty combs. 

 460, Of easy access. 481 Kef ori> complete fullness. 4K2. Shading the 

 hive. 46.3. Drone comb removed. 464. Good vmtilation. 465. 

 Swarming cannot be absolutely prevented 466. Prevention more dificult 

 when raising comb honey. 467. Queen and drone traps . 468 Preven- 

 tion of after-swarms. 



Chapter VII — Artificial Swarming, 



469 Uncertainty of natural swarming. 470 Dividing. 471. Unre- 

 liable. 472. Removing the hive. 473. Driving bees. 474. Its advan- 

 tages. 475. With movable combs. 476. Improvement. 477. Giving a 

 fertile queen . 478. Nucleus method 479. With sealed queens. 480. 

 Building nuclei. 481. Too much di\iding 483, Queen cells made pre ■ 

 viously. 483. Several a Uices. 48 4. Operations more successful during 

 honey harvest. 485. Bees don't quaiTel. 486. When the weather is too 

 cold. 487. Increasing too fast . 488. Caution. 



Chapter VIII. — Queen Rearing. 



489. How bees raise queens. 490. Are larvae inferior to eggs? 491_ 

 DePlanta's experiments. 49i$' Are young worker larvie better fed ? 493. 



