CONTENTS. 



First Honey Flow .... 



Remove Sections — Grading — The Store Room 

 Preparing for Market 

 Selling Honey — For Exhibition 



XVI. QUEEN RAISING . 



The Plan often Recommended . 



My Own Plan . 



H. Alley's Plan— The Cell Nursery 



Queen Nursery . 



The Lamp Nursery 



Nuclei .... 



Virgin Queen Cage — Surplus Virgin Queens 



Folly of keeping Young Queens Confined 



Supplying all Hives with Young Queens 



Doolittle's Queen-Cell Protector — Give Virgin Queens only 



Eggs for Queen Raising — Drones 



XVII. HONEY AND INCREASE 



Dividing ...... 



Contraction — Natural Increase— Swarming without Increase 

 Prevent After-Swarms ..... 



XVIII. FEEDING AND FEEDERS 



Dry Sugar Feeding ... 



Syrup Feeders ...... 



Simmins' Syrup Frame Feeder .... 



Circular " Amateur " — Bottle Feeders . 



Feeding without Feeders — No Feeding to take place in Winter 



XIX. INTRODUCTION OF ALIEN QUEENS TO STOCKS 

 Finding the Queen — Introduction by Caging 

 Direct Introduction 



My " Comb Method "— " Fasting Method " 

 Mr. Pond's Method — And Others 

 Various .... 



XX. BUYING, PACKING, AND MOVING BEES 

 Packing Stocks — When Delivered on Rail 

 For Export — Receipt of the Bees 

 Packing Queens — Benton Cage — The Food 

 Inserting the Bees — Packing Swai-ms . 

 Weighing Bees— Three-Frame Nuclei . 



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