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INDEX. 



PAGE 



Libellula (bee-hawk) . . 271 



Sight beverage, from honey .. 318 

 Ligurian bee (see Italian), 



"little Wonder" (extractor) .. 149 



Location of apiary 99 



Management, spring . . . . 231 



Manipulation or bees . . 171 



Extracted honey . . Uo-lo J 



Manufactures, Use of honey in.. 313 



Marketing honey 240 



Markings of pure Italian bees . . 32 

 Mating young queens .. .. 218 

 Mats for covering frames.. .. 134 



Mead 316 



Medicine, Use of honey as . . 314 



Medicinal recipes 318 



Meteorological observations, Use 



of 320 



Metheglin .. .. ..316 



Method of rendering wax.. .. 91 



Mice 270 



Miodomel .. ..316 



Mite (bee) 275 



Mode of securing and marketing 



surplus honey 231 



Moderation in use of honey 310 



Modern art of bee-keeping 7 



Moth (bee or wax) . . . . 271 



Mouth (of honey bee) . . . . 52 



Moving hives 107 



My method of forming nuclei 



and inserting queen cells . . 218 



Native flora of Australasia . . 18 



Of Australia . . . . 281 



Of New South Wales . . . . 282 



Of New Zealand.. ..279 



Of Queensland 283 



Of South Australia . . . . 282 



Of Tasmania 284 



Of Victoria 283 



Natural swarming 190 



Objections raised against . . 194 



Nature of honey 80 



Wax 87 



Nectar of plants evaporated if 



not taken by insects . . . . 303 

 Intended to attract insects . . 301 

 Sometimes thrown off as 



superfluous 302 



Nervous system (of honey-bee) . . 46 

 New South Wales, Native flora of 282 

 New Zealand, Native flora of 279 

 Eucalypti and acacias in . 284 

 Nuclei forming .. .. .215 



Nucleus hive .. .. ..127 



Objections raised against natural 



swarming . . 194 



Observatory hives 127 



Origin of the art of bee-keeping 3 

 Ovaries of queen bee . . . . 63 



Over-stocking 296 



Painting hives 129 



Palestine bees . . .. ..34 



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Parker's comb-lever 167 



Parthenogenesis 64 



Physiology of the honey-bee . . 43 

 Pollen and bee-bread . . 96 



Artificial 98 



Precautions for wintering . . 243 

 To be observed against rob- 

 bing 254 



Preparing combs for extracting.. 152 

 Preserves, use of honey for . . 309 

 Preventing increase of colonies.. 205 

 Prevention of after-swarming . . 204 



Of dysentery 256 



Of swarming 203 



Process of clipping the queen's 



wing 202 



Profits of bee-keeping . . . . 19 



Propolis 98 



Providing food for winter . . 246 



Space above frames in winter 249 



Winter forage 247 



Publications, Bee 23 



Pure mating, Necessary distance 

 apart of different races to 



secure 219 



Putting on surplus boxes . . . . 234 



Quantity of honey furnished by 



pasture lands 305 



Possibly consumed by stock . . 305 



Queen (bee), The 41 



Queen cells, Frame for raising on 212 



Frame of .. .. ..214 



How to insert 216 



How to secure choice . . . . 211 



My method of inserting 218 



Queen excluder honey board . . 238 



Queen nurseries 220 



Queen rearing 208 



Necessity of the practice . . 208 

 Queenless colonies, to unite .. 250 

 Queen's wing, process of clipping 202 

 Queens, Introducing 222 



Shipping 226 



Queensland, Native flora of . . 283 

 Question as to grazing stock . . 304 



Quieting beeB 173 



Recipes 315 



Reducing entrance to hive . . 246 



Interior room in hive . . . . 243. 

 Relation of bees to flowers . . 75 

 Remedies against bee moths . . 276 

 Reproductive organsof queen bee 62 

 Respiratory organs of honey bee 48 

 Reversible frame (Heddon's) . . 237 



Reversing frames 236 



Ripening honey .. .. 239 

 Robber bees 253 



How to know 253 



Robbing, causes of 252 



How to stop 254 



Root's roller machine . . . . 161 



Uncapping kDif e . . 152 

 Roumelian bees 37 



