INDEX. 
A. 
Abbott’s combination hive, 82 
Abnormal bees, 568 
Adjustable metal ends, 199 
Adulteration of wax, 196, 594 
After swarms (see also “Casts”), ^ 
155 
frequently several, 16 1 
leave at irregular times, 159 
to prevent, 164, 165, 167 
Age of bees, 519 
Alley introducing-cage, 330 
Alley’s plan for arranging queen- 
cells, 300 
“Amateur” feeder, 391 
American cloth to condense 
iQd:,,! moisture, 396 
swarm-boxes, 262 
Anti-propolising frame, 69 
Anti-robbing entrance, 422 
Ant, stridulating organ of, 158 
Ants, 580 
Apiary, floating, 621 
locality of, 358 
Apis adansonii, 622 
caffra, 623 
dorsata, 626 
dorsata, its nest, 33, 315 
fasciata, 620 
florea, 627 
indica, 625 
ligustica, 610 
mellifica, 608 
nigritarum, 623 
scutellata, 623 
species of, 607 
Apis unicolor, 622 
Artificial aids to comb-building, 171 
fertilisation, 323, 605 
midribs, 178 
pollen, 399 
pollen, how to give, 400 
pollen within the hive, 401 
swarming by division, 45 
swarming only suitable in warm 
weather, 273 
swarming, rules for, 272 
swarming superior to natural, 
230 
swarms need feeding before 
travelling, 262 
Aspect for hive.-, 363 
Attachment-cells, 219 
Autumn feeding, 416 
B. 
Bacilli, flagella of, 541, 571 
form spores, 545, 553 
Bacillus alvei found in queen, 548 
best time to treat, 567 
colony form, 553 
cultivation of, 550 
found in eggs, 549 
Gaytoni, 570 
Gaytoni, colony form of, 569 
how propagated. 555 
McLain’s treatment, 565 
not in honey, 556 
phenol treatment, 561 
salicylic acid treatment, 560 
subject to variation, 566 
