TABLE OF CONTENTS. IX 



Chapter II. — Buildings of Bees. 



CoHB. — les. The funiituTe of the hive. 100. Hade of wax. 300. Is 

 wax 8 fat 9 aoi. Formation of wax scalas. aoa . Produced mainly by 

 young bees. 303. Old bees cau produce it also a04. Produced by digest- 

 ing honey. 305. Bees hnngiui; in chains. 200. Boot on oomb-building. 

 a07. The first discoverer! 308. Scales of wax on the bottom of hives. 

 800. Bees |iicking up old wax. 810. Solving a problem, ail. Shape of 

 the cells. 818. Mai'velous industry. 213, Natural explanalion. 814. 

 Cells not horizontal ; thickness of comb. 215. Color of combs. 210. Size 

 of cells. 217. True measurement of cells. 318. Intermediate cells. 

 810. Economy of material. 230. Wax not made of pollen. 231. Pollen 

 needed . 222 . Chemical composition of honey and wax . 323 . Cost of 

 comb. 224. Worker end stove cells. 225. Not the same relative quan- 

 tity. 226, Notby foreknowledjo. 837. Bees follow their desires. 238. 

 Five facts. 220. Preference of builders opposed to the preference of the 

 queen. 230. Bees building few store cells. 331. Building about one- 

 third. 838. Building them here and there. 833. Rebnilding without 

 change. 234. Swarms provided with one or two combs, 235. Conclu- 

 sion. 



FnopoLis. —236. How obtained. 237. Soils the combs. 238. Used to 

 cement the cracks. 239. Gathered mainly when honey is not found. 

 840. Hard in winter. 841. Snails inclosed in propolis 243. Bemarks. 

 243. Superstitions. 244. Uses in Italy. 845, Uses in Bussia. 



Chaptbr III. — Food of Bees. 



HoiraY. — 246. What is honey? 847. Is honey the same as nectar? 

 248. How nectar is produced. 249. It is more or less watery. 250. Its 

 yield varies greatly. 251 . Eeabsorbeil by the plants, if not gathered. 

 253. In other parts of the plants. 353. Best conditions. 264 . Bonnier on 

 the nectaries. 355. Honey dew from plants and trees. 256. From 

 aphides. 257. How ejected. 258. Season and trees that proilnce it. 

 2a9. Bonnier on the origin of honey dew. 26lt. Nectar in deep corollas. 

 261 . Storing and evaporating. 262. Are the cappings of cells air-tight ? 



PoLLEir. — 26S. Its uses. 264. Indispensable for breeding. 265. Flour 

 instead of pollen. 266. Gathering. 367. Substitutes. 268. Bees use- 

 ful in plant impregnatinn . 269. Help in interbreeding plants. 870. In- 

 fluence of bees upon the fecundation of plants. 



Watee. — 271. Water is necessary to bees. 278. How to provide it. 

 273. Experiments of De Layens. 



Sait.— 874. Bees are fond of salt. 



Chapter IV.— The Bee-Hives. 



HivBS WITH Immovable Combs. — 375, Earthen hives. 376. Brimston- 

 ingbees. 277. Cutting the combs. 878. Caps for surplus, Section hives. 

 379. Vertical divisions. 



Eequimtes of a Complete HrvE. — 880. Twenty-six conditions. 281, 

 The most indispensable is good management. 



