INDEX. 



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Bottom-bonrds onoasod 164 



" movable 106 



Box-hives 130-lSl 



Brain of bees 15 



Braula coooa ,475 



Brann. his test of a day's crop 134 



Breathing upon bees 196 



Bi-eediug in and la 87 



Brlmstoning bees 130 



* ' honey comb to Iceep ont 



the moth.. 466-67 



Broad frames for sections 412 



" top bars for brood frames 166 



Brood accidentally liiiied 4')6 



' ' casting the skin 70 



' ' chamber in tvro stories 



objectionable.. 149 



' ' dnration of developemcnt 88 



" how fed 69 



'• pure air for 177 



' • sealed by bees 71 



' * transformation of the 72 



Brown on honey blossoms 887, 392 



Buckwheat honej 477 



Bnera, on water for brood rearing. . ,355 

 Burmeister, names the stomach- 

 month . . 26 

 ' ' discovers different sounds in 



the humming of bees., 32 



Bnrneus as an observer 74 



" helped Hnber 8 



Butler's anecdote from 475 



** on drones 84 



' ' on drone traps H 



" on handling bees 192,194 



*' on the bee-sting 2tl2 



•' on sectional hives 132 



" saw the queen deposit eggs. 38 



Cages , introducing 274 



" how to use 275 



' ' shipping 312 



Cakes *94 



California, crop of 404 



' ' honey, prices of 485 



Camm uses broad top bars 156 



Candied honey 481-482 



" " how bees dissolve. .126 



" " melting 483 



Candy, for feeding 320 



" for shipping 312 



" making 320 



" Scholz 321 



' ' shops, kiliingbees 325 



Cans, for lioney 488 



Cap of the hive 172 



Capping can 440 



Cappings 498 



Cappings of honey cells, air-tight?. .118 



Cirbol io acid for foul- brood 4.54 



Carbolized sheet 190 



Cares in Spring 356, 368 



Cary, on uniting colonies 335 



' ' witnessed the mating of a 



queen.. 63 

 Castellaz, on preserving combs from 



the moth.. 467 

 Catalogue of bee plants 885 



Catching the aueenofa swarm 220 



' ' queens for shipment or intro- 

 duction ... .275 



Causes of swarming 206,232 



Cellar blinds 847, 348 



" damp 346, 849 



" dark 849 



" dry 845 



" removingbees ttom 350 



' ' temperature 3J6 



" ventilation 348 



" wintering bees in 345 



Cells, accommodation.., 99 



" bottom of 95 



" drone 98, 102 



* * natural explanation of the 



shape of. . 98 



" not horizontal 96, 97 



' ' opposed preference of qneen 



and worker. .103 



" qneen 43,264,265,266,271 



" size of 97,98 



' ' solution of a problem 95 



" thickness of 99 



■' worker 87, 98 



Chaff hives 841 



defects of 342 



Chapman's echinops 386 



Cheshire, book of 59 



•' criticism of 12 



" his criticism of an engraving 99 



" hive 342 



** " winter packing of. 338 



" mistake of. 142 



'• on air-tight cappings 118, 119 



' ' on cure of foul-brood 453, 464 



' ' 6n diarrhea 445 



' • on foul brood 446, 447, 4.50 



" on how to suspend foundation 



in frames.. 876 



" on the antennae 7, 9,10,11,12 



" " blood 30 



** " eyes 4 



" " feet 22 



'• " glands 16 



" " larvae 70,71,72 



" " legs 23,24 



•' " pollen baskets 24 



" " skeleton of the bee 2 



" " survivalof the fittest. .80, 81 



" " tongue 20 



' ' on wax 89 



Chickens close hives in tlie evening. .471 



" eat drones 86,474 



Chinofthe bee 19 



Chitine „ 2 



Chloroform 276 



Christie's method of putting up 



honey.. 489 



Clamps for wintering 35C 



" Van Deusen's 168 



Claws andpnlvilli 21 



Cleaning propolis from the hands . . .107 



Cleansing beeswax 500 



Clipping the wings of queens 220-221 



Cloth, oil or enameled 170 



Clover, alsike 183 



