UNDER: - 963 
‘Spain, bee-hives incredibly numerous in, 226; number in the 
poffeffion of one prieit, ib. 
Spiders, a fimile drawn from, 196 ; enemies to bees, 222; how 
to deftroy them, ib. 
Spies fent out before {warming by the bees, 156, 159; their 
ambafladors fometimes fufpected to be, 188. 
Spring, hives fometimes found in, without a fingle bee, 121 5 
the author’s method of managing bees during, 124 3 his ce- 
lebration of the return of, 1323 entries of hives fhould be 
widened in, 133, 134. ee 
Scing of a bee, defcribed, 80, 813 its wound proves mortal 
to {mall animals, 81, as well as to the bee, ib.; direQtions — 
to guard againft it, 82, 83, 84, 85; effects of it on dif- 
ferent perfons, 86; remedies, 87, 88. 
Stock hives, average profit from, 4, 63 probable increafe- of, 
53 may be preferved fn the worft feafons, 9; increafe 
from, in a good one, 443 dire€tions to choofe them in 
September, 883 and prepare them for winter, 95; fhould 
be chofen and marked, when the neighbouring flowers are 
moftly faded, 201; how to fupply a deficiency of ftock 
hives, 203; mode of operation, 204, 205 ; bees may alfo 
be purchafed cheap from bee-killers, 205. 
Storm, the late, fatal to bees, 121, 1223 see Cold. 
Subfcribers, names of the, xi, et eg. 
Summer, the midft of, incredible rapidity of the bees in, 133; 
entries of the hives fhould then be widened, 1343; how 
to re-inforce a weak hive in f{ummer, 141; Queens ther 
breed very falt, 199. 
Savamimerdam’s opinion as to the ufe of drones, 68; refuted, zé. 
Swarming of bees, artificial, fometimes equally neceflary and 
advantageous, 150, 168, £79; deftructive & bees when 
attempted by unfkilful perfons, i4.; directions how to 
perform it properly, 17°35 when two fwarms meet, ah 5 
and do not unite, 171; a Queen may be offered to each, 
7723 the critical moment to do this, 25; account of two 
; erie Rae aol icici ott nfued be- 
hives that were united, 173 3; and cf a duel that e 
tween 
