640 
INDEX. 
Bacteria not found in healthy 
tissues, 573 
Balling of queen, 149, 327, 426, 
431 
Bee, albino, 620 
Bhootan, 626 
black, 608 
bob, to induce swarms to settle, 
147 
bread (see also “ Pollen”), 398 
Carniolan, 617 
Cyprian, 614 
dress, 8 
dress in taking swarms, 169 
drhing, 233 
driving with hive in situ, 237 
Egyptian, 620 
fountain, 406 
Holy Land, 616 
Hungarian, 617 
hunting, 375 
Ligurian, 610 
line, 375 
louse, 577 
milk of, 284 
Syrian, 616 
traps, 446 
veil, 9 
veil, ^vire-cloth, 10 
wade distribution of, 629 
Bee-keeping in India, 624 
Punjab, 625 
Bees, “ abnormal,” 568 
age of, 519 
apportionment of, in driven 
swarm and stock, 241 
“black,” 569 
building in a bush, 30 
by the pound, 262 
crossed, preferred, 605 
Cyprian, gentle, 23, 615 
Cyprian, how to handle, 22, 615 
deiend entrance, 280 
deserting hive, 138 
diarrhoetic, 572 
dislike single combs, 43 
dysenteric, 572 
emotion, influence of, upon, 354 
gorged when sw'arming, 1 2b 
hear, 16 1 
hermaphrodite, cause of, 550 
Bees, how to collect on frame, 305 
how to judge, 617 
keep entrance under guard, 34 
making mistakes, 260, 432 
mark their location, 134 
necessary qualities of, 604 
not quieted by gorging 12 
number in a sw^arm, 263 
old, refuse a queen, 343 
purchasing, 366 
queenless, build drone-comb, 
2 ! 2 
quieted by carbolic acid, 19 
salivary secretion of, 378 
scooping up, 138 
searching for queen, 286 
size of, 315 
subdued by driving, 235 
taking up, 367 
the first hive-makers, 33 
the friends of man, 29 
to make keep a new station, 
273, 428 
to remove from supers, 44b 
under proper control, 7 
w’eight of, 212 
why they run in driving, 237 
wdld, to capture, 372 
wall not remain if combless 
and queenless, 274 
young, agree with any queen, 
352 
Bee-space, 41, 96 
j Benton cage, 334 
Benton’s queen postal box, 349 
Bertrand fumigator, 561 
“ Betsinger” cage, 338 
Bingham hive, 90 
smoker, 14 
“ Black bees ” a disease, 569 
Blind spiders, 319 
Blue tit, 578 
Book hive, 42 
Bottle feeder, 382 
Bow’ei cast by queen nymph, 154 
Bowel distension, 524, 572 
Box for sw’arms, 261 
Brace combs, to prevent, 465 
Braula caeca, 577 
Breeding in January, 409 
late to get young bees, 417 
