642 
INDEX. 
Comb rest, 257, 333 
side attached as far down as 
honey, 222 
some curious geometric pro- 
perties of, 213 
thickened, to cut down, 244 
three cells thick, 206 
to render into wax, 590 
worker-cells of, 39 
Combination hive, 82, 490 
Condemned bees, 367, 636 
bees aided by combs, 369 
bees, preserving queens of, 371 
Contracting the brood-nest, 506 
Controlled increase, 225 
Copper test for adulteration, 586 
Cork-dust, 59 
for hives, 528 
Comeil, Mr,, on staining comb 
honey by inversion, 109, 468 
Corn syrup, 584 
Cowan extractor, 476 
hive, 76 
Crate, divided, 464 
for sections, 460 
Creasote and smoker, 22 
Crosses breed out drone element, 
618 
preferred, 605 
Crown-board, 66 
Cultivation of disease germs, 551 
Cutting combs, 172 
combs by wire, 244 
Cutting-out queen-cells, 164 
Cyprian bees, how to handle, 23, 
bees, characteristics of, 614 
D. 
Dampness, cause of, 531 
prevented, 532 
Dead air and cork-dust compared, 
60 
air space, 527 
Death’s head moth, 576 
Decoy hives, 135, 240 
Development of swarming tendency, 
228, 318 
period of, 320 
Dextrose and levulose, 378, 582 
Diarrhcetic bees, 572 
j Dipping-boards, 179 
Direct introduction, 342 
I introduction, experiments on, 
I 345 
introduction, w’hv successful, 
347 
Disease occasions variation in re- 
sults, 228 
' Diseases, 535 
I Disinfecting hands, 558 
i hives and frames, 559 
! Distance pins, 71 
Distances between combs, 106 
I Divdded crate. 464 
; Dividing a frame hive, 268 
as formerly practised a failure, 
271 
Dividing-frame for queen-raising, 
304 
Divisional super, 447 
Dhdsion-board, construction of, 73 
feeder. 392 
size of, 53 
Dome cage, 255, 331 
Doolittle cage, 313 
Doubling 495 
Doubling-box, 64, 80 
Dovetail frames, 192 
sections, 448 
, sections, Lee’s, 456 
I Driving, 233 
cautions respecting, 238 
competitions, 239 
i in cool weather, 236 
’ zfz situ, 237 
to introduce queens, 341 
Drone-cells, peculiarities of, 216 
size of, 39 
Drone-comb prevented by spacing, 
72, 106 
Drone selected b\’ imprisonment, 
322 
Drones expensive to stock, 285 
produced before swarming, 124 
to obtain early, 273, 291 
to obtain late, 322 
Drone-traps, 145 
Dry sugar feeding, 395 
Dysenteric bees, 572 
I Dzierzon's frame, 46 
