INDEX. 



IX 



Mehring, Inventor of comb foun- 



iliition 207 



** stump for securing siraight 



combs 154 



Melipones 2i)0 



Melting honey 483 



' wax im 



Memory oi boos li, 350 



Metiititrsus ot bt'os 22 



Mice in bee hivos 472 



Miller ou balls in sections 416 



" fonndalion siurtura 420, 421 



" number of colonies in one 



location. .405 



' robber cloths 437 



** scraping propolis from sec- 

 tions. .419 



* * ' * section crates 422 



* • * ' time of removal of bees from 



cellar ..511 

 Mills on painting hives different 



colors.. 295 



Mismanagement of bees 200 



Mistakes of beginners 519 



Mixing bees from different hiveB249, 43G 



More on honey 492 



Mouth of bees 15-19 



Movable comb hives 137 



" frame hives, first attempts 



at.. 140 

 " frame standard Langstroth 1.05 



*' different styles of 147 



Munnhive 140,185 



Muth honey cake 495 



' ' location 291 



• ' foul-brood method 450-451 



'* on ripening honey 483 



" straw mats 171 



Natural swarming 206 



'* and selection ... 231 



'* uncertainty of 238 



Nectar, best condition to produce.. .113 



" changed to honey Ill 



*' contains moreorless waterlll 

 *• exists in different parts of 



the plant.. 113 



" extrafloral 113 



*' in deep corollas 117 



" reabsorbed by plants 112 



'* storing and evaporating. .. .118 

 " yields of, vary greatly. 112, 378 



Nervous system In bees 29 



Newman kegs for honey 480 



" on uses of honey. .492, 493, 497 



Norton on out-door wintering 314 



Notch of the first pair of legs 22 



Nucleus 266 



" for artificial swarming 245 



' ' how made 267 



** prepared in advance 269 



" strong 268 



Nnmbcring the hives 173 



Nursing glauds of workers 15 



Nurses 66,69 



Observiiig glass of the Langstroth 



hive.. 157 



Observing hives 181 



*' for pleasure and 



Instruction. .183 



" in apartments 182 



** necessary to study 



bees.. 182 



Ocelli ofbces 5 



Odor of the poison of bees 36 



Oettl, golden rule 621 



' ' on honey yield 402, 403 



' ' on the Inngnage of bees 32, 33 



" straw hive 132 



Oilcloth 170 



Old ago, signs of, in bees 79 



Old and young queens living togethei 50 



Old bee-keepers venom-proof 204 



Old, how old is a queen when impreg- 

 nated. . 51 



Old precepts 194 



Olfactory organs 11 



** Girard experiments on 13 



" lead bees to flowers 13 



Olm mills .370 



Opening hives 197 



Orphan bees raisinggueens 47 



Otis saw impregnation 53 



Out-aplaries, why 302 



• ' conditions required for 303 



" how many? 304 



" our terms for 304 



Outer-boxes for wintei-ing 344 



Out of doors wintering 333 



Ovaries of a drone-laying queen ... 57 



" ofthe queen 54-56 



" of workers 74-75 



Overbeck, discovery of origin of 



wax . . 93 



Overstocking 400 



'* opinions on 405 



Packard on the breathing organs 30 



" " instinct of bees 37 



Pain d'fipices 493 



Painting hives i72 



" " different colors 295 



Paley on the sting 36 



Palieanhive 132 



Palpi andmuxillas 19 



Paraffine, melting point of 371 



Parsons importation 287 



Piirthenogenesis 56 



" proven by Italian 



bees. . 57 



Pastenr on breeding bacilli 447 



'* on inoculation 205 



Pasturage for bees 378 



Patents 173 



Perforated zinc 84, 418 



Piping of the queen 49,227 



Poison of the sting 202 



' ' sack 33 



Pollen 119 



*' baskets 24 



'* combs 24 



' ' fresh preferred 121 



*' gathering, n»efnl to plants 123 



" indifepensiible to bees..^ 120 



" BubsUtutes 12? 



