ALPHABETICAL INDEX. xv 



Derivation of word Bee, 7i; 



Description of New Improvements, 86 



Diary of Honey Plants, ICO, 180 



Dividing, 97 



Doubling Stocks Yearly by Nucleus Swarming, 100 



Driving or Forced Swarming, 97- 



Drones, 21— Drone Comb, 24, 100— Drone Cells, 77 



Eggs, Number Laid, 20— How Fecundated, 21— Time to Mature, 24 



February Management, 182 



Feeding Bees, 153 



Fertility of Queen, 20— Decreases with Age, 37— Italian most Prolific, 109 



Fertilization of Young Queens, 82 



Fertilization in Confinement, 210 



Flowers for Bees, 46 



Flour a Substitute for Pollen, 52 



Foul Brood, 209 



Frames, Moveable, their Inventionand Improvement, 202 



Fruit Trees, 160 



Fruit Tree'Flowers Valuable to Induce Early Swarming, 24, 45 



Golden Rod and Asters, 171, 175 



Handling Bees, 42 



Hatching and Fertilization of Queens, 32 



Hives, 200— Hive Essentials, 203 



Honey Boxes, G3 



Honey Comb, 77 



Honey Crate, 07 



Honey Crops, .• 49 



Honey, Different Qualities Gathered, 45 — Stored in Frames, 129— In Boxes, 200 



Honey Extractor, 59, 60 — Advantages of 91 



Honey Industry, 74 



How to Prevent Swarms from Leaving their Hives, 32 



How to Prevent Swarms from Clustering together, 29 



How to Separate Them, 30 



Howto get the Comb Built True in the Frame, 54 



How to Stock an Apiary, 127 



Hunting Wild Bees, 130— Trapping Them 133 



Introduction, 9 



Introducing an Italian Queen 115, 117 



Increase of Stocks 15 



Impregnation of Queen Bee 20, 33, 103 



Importance of New Blood in the Apiary Ill 



Italian Honey Bee 107 



Italian Queen Rearing 114, 118, 120 



Italianizing a Whole Apiary US 



