XVI. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIG. PAGE 



62. Heddon's honey board .. 112 



63. Honey extractor . . . . 147 



64. Framework for two-comb 



extractor 148 



65. "Little Wonder" ..149 



66. Reversible six-comb honey- 



extractor, with one basket 

 detached ISO 



67. Cowan's automatic basket.. 151 



68. Root's uncapping knife . . 152 



69. Bingham and llethcrington 



knife, with cap-catcher . . 152 



70. Dadant's uncapping can ... 153 



71. Broken-comb basket.. .. 154 



72. Cross-section of extracting 



house, with view of ex- 

 tractor, strainer, and tanks 155 



73. Ground plan of ditto.. .. 156 



74. Comb foundation . . 158 



75. A. I. Root's lOin. roller 



machine 161 



76. The Given press ..162 



77. Gauge for trimming founda- 



tion 164 



78. Comb-foundation board . 165 



79. Mode of fastening in frame 165 



80. Wax-smelter .. .. 166 



81. Parker's comb-lever . . . . 167 



82. Wired frame .. ..168 



83. Wiring board . . . . 169 



84. Easterday's wire imbedder 169 

 84a. Device for securing 



straight combs . . . . 170 



85. Wire-cloth bee- veil .. 172 



86. Tarlatan bee-veil . . .172 



87. Clark's cold-blast smoker . . 174 



88. Bingham's direct-draught 



smoker .. .. .174 



89. Comb-holder .. 176 



90. "Simplicity" comb-holder.. 177 



91. " Simplicity" feeder .. .181 



92. Grey's entrance feeder . . 182 



93. Transferring wires and claps 183 



94. Transferring board ..184 



95. Pieces of comb transferred 



to frame 135 



96. Jones' entrance guard . . 210 



97. Alley's drone excluder, 



drone and queen trap . . 210 



FIG. PAGE 



98. Comb containing eggs . . 211 



99. Frame for raising queen 



cells on 212 



100. Frame of queen cells . 214 



101. Comb stand . . 216 



102. Inserted queen cell, from 



which queen has emerged 217 



103. Alley's queen nursery 221 



104. Alley's queen nursery cage 221 



105. Alley's introducing cage 223 



106. Queen shipping cage . . 227 



107. Benton's shipping cage for 



two queens 227 



108. Division board . . 232 



109. Hive with division boards . . 233 



110. Heddon's reversible frame.. 237 



111. Queen excluder .238 



112. Bliss' sun evaporator . . .. 239 



113. Comb basket 240 



114. Shipping crate and show 



case for comb-honey 243 



115. Brickell's chaff-hive . . 249 



116. Hill's device .. ..250 



117. Bee tent .. .. ..255 



118. Bacilli 260 



119. Bacilli spores 260 



120. Healthy juices of larva .. 261 



121. B. alvei (last stage) . . . . 261 



122. B. alvei (early stage).. .. 262 



123. B. alvei (late stage) . . . . 262 



124. Spray diffuser 268 



125. Bee-hawk (Libellula) . . 271 



126. Bee-moth 272 



127. Male and female bee-moth 273 



128. Silken tube of bee-moth 



larva .... 273 



129. Silken tube in comb . . . . 274 



130. Larvte of bee-moth . . . 274 



131. Comb destroyed by bee-moth 



larvae . . 275 



132. American linden or bass- 



wood 288 



133. Horse-mint of Texas.. .. 289 



134. Figwort 290 



135. Threovarietiesofgoldcsnrods 291 



136. Aster .. 292 



137. Spider plant . . . . 293 



138. Mellilot clover . . 291 



139. Giant mignonette .. 295 



