TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Copious Alphabetical Index 13 



Chapter I. Physiology of Bees 19 



Chapter II. Natural Swarming 25 



Chapter III. Bee Pasturage and Products 45 



Chapter IV. Extractors, Comb Foundations, Surplus Honey in Boxes and 



Extracted, Marketing Honey 58 



Chapter V. Artificial Swarming 91 



Chapter VI. The Apiary 121 



Chapter VII. Diary of Honey Plants 160 



Chapter VIII. Monthly Management 181 



Chapter IX. Hives 200 



Chapter X. Biography of Bee Keepers 212 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



Absconding Swarms, 26, 27 — How Prevented, 32— How Captured 128 



Advantages of Bee Keeping, 9 — Who should Keep Bees, 11— Profits of, 74 157 



Advantages of the Nucleus System of Swarming 105 



Advantages Secured in the Construction of Hives 201 



After Swarming, 33 — Cause of and How Prevented 34 



Age of Bees, 20 — Queens, 20 — Drones, 21 — Worker 22 



Alsike Clover 168 



Apiary, 124 — Best Location, 125 — How to Stock it, 127 — Monthly Management.. 181 



Anger of Bees, 10 — How Subdued 42 



Ants, How to Banish them from the Apiary 143 



Artificial Swarming— Time for, 95— Different Methods 97 



August Management 194 



Bar Hives and Bar Frames used in Germany 202 



Basswood or Linden affords much Choice Honey 46,51, 163 



Bee Bread or Pollen, 51— Rye Meal Bes< Substitute for 52 



Bee Feeders 155 



Bee Glue or Propolis 52 



Bee Houses, 120— A Shed Best and how Constructed 126 



Bee Keeping, 9— Profits of, 157— How to Commence 128 



Bee Pasturage, 45— Crops Most Valuable for both Seed and Honey 49 



Bee Stings, 79— How to Neutralize the Poison 44 



