ey es ee 
232 
he corrects his own miftakes, 130, 131, 178, 1975 cele- 
brates.the return of the honey feafon, 1325 can perform 
any operation, however difficult, or feemingly impoffble, 
that can be done about bees, 1403 lift of a few fuch oper- 
ations, 75. 1413 he fettles a duel between two Queens, 
174; his experiments in artificial {warming 173, 178, 
179; affifts'the bees in killing the drones, 183, 1845 
but not when there are féw in a hive, 184; the author’s 
opinion of bee-bread, tor; and wax, 196; he has feen 
the {mall white {cales mentioned by Thorley, 193, 194; 
never had a hive ftolen, but one, 2173 never loft one by 
flying of in fwarming, 7.: nor ever fuffered any lofs by 
the wax moth, 220; his chief intention in this work, 224 3. 
and concluding advice to all ranks, ib. et feg.; his plan 
drawn from near thirty years experience, 229 ; ee no chi- 
mera, 75. 
Authors, lit of feveral, who have wrote about | bees, 23; mif- 
takes of, corrected ; see Miftakes. 
Autumn, bees buty every fine day in, 1323 all hives from 
which bees are taken fhould then be united into ftock-hives, 
20q 3 fee Bees, Hives, &e. 
Avarice of bees for honey, a chief caufe of their wars and 
robberies, 118 ; of a honey dealer, 225; juftly punithed, 22. | 
Average value of hives, 4, 5,63 see Hives. 
: B. 
Bargains, cheap, of bees, may be en from bee-killers, 205. 
B tles among bees, 8, 120, 1703 see Robberies and Wars. 
Beteean defcribed, 1895 various conjeCtures refpecting it, 
39S, 1915 fuppofed to_be the fubflance from which wax 
is made, 1903 objection, 2.3; reply, 76.; efteemed to be 
food for the young bees, 1913 objeétion, id. 5 conjecture 
drawn from both hypothefes, 76; becs do not live on it a- 
ione, 74,; would die, if there were no honey in the hive, 
iB, 
’ 
