96 INDEX. 
19, 20; how fertilized, 11, 15, 17,| 
40 to 43; the mother bee, 11, 12; 
how lost, 15, 16, 20, 41, 90; how 
found, 42, 43, 60, 61, 90; clip wings 
of, 42,61 90, when, 42, 43, 61, 62; 
caging of, 42; time of maturity, 12; 
respect for, 15 to 19, 25, 26 ; destroy 
rivals, 14, 20; embryo, 13, 14, 19. 
20; “piping” of, 14; artificial, 22 ; 
cells of, 12 to 14, 19 to 22, 39, 40, 
88; excited when ceils all occupied, 
13; absence of, serious, 20 to 22, 26, 
27, 38, 89, 92; renewing, 89, cau- 
tion, 42, 43, 85, 86; fertile, lays reg- 
ularly, 89; unfertile, irregularly, 89. 
Quadruple hives, 36 to 45; how used, 
37, to 45; advantages of, 43 to 45, 
48 to 55. 
Quarreling, 20, 42, 92, 93. 
Robbers, 56 to 58, 60. 
Secret of success, 27, 91 to 93. 
Single hive, advantages of Metcalf’s, 
76, 47 
Smoking bees, 29, 37, 58, 60, 63, 92, 
93, 
Surplus honey, 64 to 69; boxes, 50. 
Swarm of bees, 11 to 22; how lost, 15, 
16, 41, 89, 92, to prevent 41, 42, 60 
to 62, 88, 90; most valuable, 90; 
kept separate, 38, 39, 92; how mul- 
tiplied, 12 to 20. 
Swarming, 12 to 17; first, preparations 
for, 12 to 14; cause of, 12 to 15; de- 
lay, 14, 44; after, cause of, 14. 
Speculations, ch. of, 93, 94. 
Transfering, bees, 37, 38 ; queen cells, 
39, 40, 43, 88; from box hives, to 
movable frames, 58 to 63; combs, 
59 to 62; find queen, 60, 61. 
Tall hives, 52, 53. 
Ventilation, 51, 52. 
Wintering, 35, 50 to 56. 
Winter passages, 36, 37, 47, 50, 51, 
54, 55. 
Workers, number of, 11, 12; undevel- 
oped females, 11, 12, 20, 21; per- 
form all the labor, 17; time of ma- 
turity, 13; drone laying, 11, 12, 16, 
21, 22, 88. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Abdomen of worker, 17. 
Bees, 11, 15, 17,75. Brood, 18, 19, 
21, 24. Bar-frames, 28. Bee- 
hunting, 72. 
Comb, worker, 18, 19, 20, 24. Comb, 
Drone, 24. Cells, 18, 19, 20, 24. 
Drones, 11, 75. Drone cells, 21, 24. 
Drone laying, 21. 
Eggs in comb, 21, 39. 
Frames, 28, 31, 32, 36, 46, 47. 
Frame-bars, 28. 
Hives, 31, 32, 36, 46, 47. 
Meicalf, 36, 46, 47. Honey comb, 
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18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 36, 39, 58. Hunt- 
ing bees, 72. 
Movable frames, 28, 31, 32, 36, 46, 
47. Moth, 47, gallery, 47. 
Queen bees, 11, 15, 75. Quadruple 
Hive, 36. Queen cell, 19, 20, 21, 
39. Queen ovaries, 94. 
Transferring Bees, 36, 59. Trans- 
ferring cells, 30. Transferring 
Comb, 59. 
Worker bees, 11, 17, 75. Do. comb, 
18, 19, 20, 24. Wax scales, 71. 
DRESS. 
To the rim of a light summer hat sew a piece of gauze-wire cloth, cut six 
inches wide in the middle and tapering 
to two inches at each end, with curtain 
of any light cloth to tuck in about the neck. 
But the Best Ber Dress is courage, kindness, steady movements, and 
knowledge of the habits of bees. 
‘‘A soft answer turneth away wrath.” 
