INDEX.. 



bee- 



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200 



281 



Absconding swarms . . 

 Acacias in New Zealand . . 

 Adaptation to women of 



keeping 



Adulteration of honey 

 Advantages of hexagonal form 



of cells 

 Advice to beginners 

 After-swarming, Prevention of . . 



After-swarms 



Agriculture in relation to api 



culture 



Aid (State) to apiculture 

 Air sacs (of honey bee) 

 Alighting board (of hive) 

 Alley's drone and queen trap 



Introducing cage 

 American linden or basswood . . 



Plants and trees 

 Analysis of bee-bread 



Of wax 



Anatomy of the honey bee 



Antennae of honey bee 



Ants 



Antiquity of the use of honey . . 

 Apiary, Area of ground for 



Arrangement of hives in 



General arrangement of 



House 



Location of ..99 



Shade for 100 



Stocking 106 



Apiculture, as an industry, Impor- 

 portance of 18 



In relation to agriculture . . 297 



State aid to 21 



Suitability of, for New Zea- 

 land and Australia . 

 Apis Adansonii 



Dorsata 



Fasciata 



Indica 



Iiiguetica 



Melliflca 



Sirialis 



Tregona 



Unicolor 

 Are bees trespassers 1 

 Area of ground for apiary 

 Arrangement of extracting house 155 



Of nives in apiary . . 103 



Arrenotokia .. .. ..267 



Artificial pollen 98 



Art of bee-keeping, Modern . . 7 



,, „ Origin of . . 3 



22 

 49 

 122 

 210 

 223 

 287 



43 



54 



270 



1 



103 



103 



99 

 109 



16 



27 

 37 

 27 

 37 

 26 

 25 

 37 

 38 

 13 

 297 

 103 



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 Atmosphere and rainwater, 



sources of saccharine matter 301 

 Australia, Native flora of . . . . 251 

 Australasian exemptions from bee 



enemies 269 



Automatic basket. Cowan's . . 151 



Axioms, Bee-keepers' . . 325 



Bacillus alvei (foul brood) . . . . 257 



Salicylic acid remedy . . . . 264 



Stages of 261, 262 



Symptoms of .. . .. 257 



The Cheshire cure for. . . . 262 

 Under the microscope.. .. 260 



Bacillus Gaytoni 266 



Bees, Beneficial influence of, on 



agriculture 298 



Can they harm the soil or the 



crops? .. ..299 



Diseases of . . 256 



Enemies of.. .. ..269 



Flight of 271 



Bee-bread . . . . . . 96 



Analysis of . . 97 



Bee-hawk (libellula).. . ..271 



Bee-keepers' axioms 325 



Bee-keeping,adaptationtowomen 20 

 As a branch of farming . . 307 

 Improved system of . . . . 10 

 In New Zealand and Australia 7 



Profits of 19 



Bee-mite 279 



Bee-moth 271 



Larva?, silken tube of . . . . 273 



Male and female 273 



Bee forage (see Forage). 



Gloves .. .. ..173 



Publications 23 



Tents.. 254 



Veils.. .. 172 



Beginners, Advice to . . . . 21 

 Benefits of co-operation . . . . 243 

 Benton's queen shipping cage . . 227 

 Beverages, light, from honey . . 318 

 Bingham and Hetherington's un- 

 capping knife 152 



Bingham sdireet draught smoker 174 

 Black (or German) bee . . . 28 

 Bliss' sun evaporator . . 239 



Bottom board (of hive) . . 121 



Brickell's chaff hive.. ..249 



Broken-comb basket 154 



Calendar, adapted to Auckland, 



New Zealand 321 



Carniolanbee 35 



Causes of robbing 252 



