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These are the tables I propose for the subject in question: 
TABLES of IIBLIOGimPHIC DECIMtl CUSSIFIMTION 
for 'publication relating to Bee-golturk and Bees 
FIRST DIVISION. 
0.6381 - Apiculture and Bees. 
0. 6381. General memoranda. Treatises. Lectures. 
Teaching. History. Statistics. Bibliography. 
». 1 Theoretical part of apiculture. Systems of 
apiculture. Natural history of bees, their varieties 
and species: their habits, requirements, their 
means of comunication. Brood, diseases, enemies- 
Combs, manner of regulating the construction 
of same. Flora connected with bee-cul- 
ture. (See produce of bees at ».9). 
». 2 Apiculture apparatus. Varieties of hives. 
Frames. Wax foundation. Apiaries. Discourses 
in connection with same. 
». 3 Various methods of handling bees, open- 
ing hives, finding the Queen, young and old bees. 
Bee-sting, ils remedies and ibercipeutical effects. 
». 4 Methods of uniting colonies. Care of queen- 
less families. Strengthening -of weak stocks- 
». 5 Methods of favouring or preventing the increase 
of stocks. Feeding, when stores deficient or sti- 
mulating. Robbing. 
». 6 Care of stocks during the year. Profits of 
bee-keeping. Enlargement of brood nest. Spring and 
autumn inspection. Wintering. Honey harvest. 
». 7 Rearing and changing Queens. Gutting 
out and inserting Queen cells. Introduction of 
strange Queens and Queen cells. 
