IND 
Artificial Swarming, what founded on, 
22; how attempted, 22 to 27; how 
done, 35, 31 to 46; advantages of, 
43 to 45, 93; find queen, 60, 61, 90. 
Bars, 27, 28. 
Bee-bread, 64. 
Bees, a swarm of. 11; will not desert 
their young, 62; hybrid, 86 to 88; 
purchasing, 90; moving, 91. 
Bridal trip, 15. 
Brood, time of least and of most, 12; 
maturity of, 12. 
California, bees in, 68, 69,77, 81. 
Caution, clipping wings of queens, 42, 
61; transferring, 61, 62; driving, 
61 to63; renewing queens, 42, 43, 89. 
Cells, worker, 18,19; queen,19, 20, 21, 
39, 40 to 43, use one only, 40, 41; of 
queen, destroyed, 20, 86. 
Colony, a prosperous, consists of, 11. 
Comb, drone and worker, 23, 25; cost 
of, 26; value of, 44,45, 89; to insure 
true, 27, 35, 38, 39, 45,62: how to 
preserve, 89. 
Double Hive, 45. 
Driving bees, 62, 63. 
Driving box, 58, 59. 
Drones, 11, 19; male bees, 11, 15, 16, 
17; number of in hive, 11; short 
lived, 11, 16, 17; time of maturity, 
12; excess of, 21 to 26, 92, how 
prevented, 26, 38 to 45, 92; neces- 
sary, 11, 15, 38,425; pure, 86 to 88. 
Jysentery, 55, 91. 
Feeding, 55, 56. 
Frames, 28, 35, 53; Tayior’s, 28; 
Munn’s, 29, 30 to 33; Metcalf’s, 
46, 47, 48. 
Fumigating bees, 37, 58, 60, 63. 
Facts, chapter of, 91, 92. 
EX. 
Handling bees, 35. 
Hives, Nadir, 22 to 24; dividing, and 
colonizing, 25 to 27; leaf, 27; Munn, - 
3L; Langstroth and others, 27, 28, 
30 to 32; Michigan, 35 to47; quad- 
ruple, 35 to 37; double, 45; single, 
46; no moth-proof, 46 to 50; tall, 
52,53; low, 51,53; main features 
of a good one, 35. 
Honey boxes, 48. 
Hunting bees, 69 to 74. 
Honey, 37, 63 to 69, 91. 
Italian bees, 76 to 88; where found, 
76, 79, 60; description of, 75 to 80; 
how discovered, 76; when and by 
whom imported, 77 ; what is claimed 
for them, 78 to 85; my experience 
with them, 85; to Italianize common 
stocks, 85 to 88, theories about, 85, 
86, facts about, 86 to 88; deterio- 
ration, 86 to 88, how to prevent, 88. 
Losg of swarms, causes of, 20, 41 to 43, 
AT to 56, 62, 63, 89, 92; how to pre- 
vent, 36 to 63, 88. 
Michigan (Metcalf’s) Hives, 35 to 47, 
Moth, 46 to 49; remedies for, 48 to 50. 92. 
Movable frames, 28 to 34; Metcalf’s, 
46, 47. 
Natural swarming, perplexing, 13 to 
16, 91, 93, preparations, 12, 13. 
Overstocking, 65, 66. 
Pasturage, 63 to 69. 
Patents, absurd pretentions, 29, 30. 
Protits, 66 to 69. 
Propolis, 63, 64. 
Queen, 11 to 22; ability of swarm to 
rear, 19 to 27; how reared, 13, 14, 
