Causes of Swarming— The Swarming Season- Symptoms of 

 Swarming — Issue of the Swarm — Objections raised against 

 Natural Swarming— Preparing for Swarms — Swarm Box — Taking 

 and Hiving Swarms— Absconding Swarms — Clipping the Queen's 

 Wing — Process of clipping — After-Swarms — Prevention of 

 Swarming — Prevention of After-Swarming — Supplying the old 

 Stock with Fertile Queen — Preventing Increase of Colonies — 

 Dividing ... ... ... ... ... 188-207 



CHAPTEE XII. 



QUEEN REARING. 



Necessity of the Practice — A Word concerning Drones — Entrance 

 Guards — How to secure choice Queen Cells — FormingNuclei — How 

 to insert Queen Cells — My Method of forming Nuclei and inserting 

 Queen Cells— Mating Young Queens — Necessary Distance apart 

 of different Paces to insure pure Mating — Queen Nurseries- 

 Introducing Queens —Direct Introduction of Queens — Introducing 

 Virgin Queens — " Shipping " Queens — Shipping whole Colonies 



208—230 



CHAPTER XIII. 



SURPLUS HONEY, MODE OP SECURING AND MARKETING. 



Spring Management — Division Boards -Spreading Brood — Putting on 

 surplus Boxes— Reversing Frames — Heddon's reversible Frames 

 — Queen Excluder Honey Board — Taking surplus Honey — 

 Ripening Honey — Comb Baskets — Marketing Honey — Extracted 

 Honey— Comb Honey — Benefits of co-operation ... 231—243 



CHAPTEE XIV. 



WINTERING, UNITING. 



Difference in Character of Winter Seasons — Australasian Winters — 

 Precautions for Wintering — Reducing interior Room in Hive — 

 Providing Food — Inner Covering of Frames — Reducing Entrance 

 — Securing Covers — Providing Winter Forage — Ventilation — 

 Chaff Hives — To make a Chaff Hive — Providing Space above 

 Frames in Winter — Uniting weak and queenless Colonies — 

 Uniting Swarms ... ... ... ... 244—251 



CHAPTEE XV. 



ROBBER BEES. 



Causes of Robbing — How to know Robber Bees — Precautions to be 

 observed — Bee Tents— How to stop Robbing ... 252 — 255 



