650 
INDEX. 
Spoon for dropping molten wax, 1 75 
Spores, line arrangement of, 555 
vitality of, 560 
Spreading brood, 414, 497 
brood, cautions respecting, 415 
Spring dwindling, 410 
dwindling, McLain’s food for, 
533 
stimulation, 409 
Sproule’s, Mr., application of crea- 
sote, 22 
process of disinfection, 560 
Staining micro-organisms, 543 
Standard frame, 53 
Starting bee-keeping, 366 
Starvation, signs of, 633 
Staiwed bees, weight of, 263 
Stations for stock and swarm after 
driving, 242 
Stewarton hive, 47 
Sting adds formic acid to honev, 
587 
cures 28 
palpi, 27 
Stinging, to prevent, 25 
Stingless bees, 628 
Stocks from condemned bees, 368 
that have swarmed, how to 
treat, 151 
weakened by swarming, to 
treat, 274 
vStomach-mouth, 521 
Stores, amount of, for winter, 417 
Storifying hive system, 51, 91, 490, 
'494 
Strengthening nuclei by eggs, 271 
Striduladng organs, 157 
Suffocation from bad packing, 136 
Sugars, variations in, 377 
.Sulphuring bees, 367 
Sunflowers, 632 
Supercession of queens, 326, 437 
Supering, 492 
Supers, 444 
divisional, 447 
glass, to treat, 444 
telescopic. 445 
to clear of bees, 446 
Swarm building in a bush, 30 
deserting hive, 138 
finding whence it issued, 1 50 
Swarm leaves sealed queen-cells, 226 
made up from several* stocks, 
269 
natural, may be placed any- 
where, 140 
number of bees in, 226, 263 
placed on old stand, 15 1 
theoretically circular in outline, 
31 
to cause to settle, 127 
Swarm-arrestors, 143 
Swarming, artificial, by division, 45 
artificial, rules for, 272 
; bv jerking or brushing bees, 
! '258 
how conducted, 125 
impulse favoured by natural 
selection, 229 
maiden, 276 
nucleus, 270 
predisposing, causes of, 277 
preparation for, 124 
prevented by extraction, 278 
tendency naturally developed, 
318 
I to prevent, 275 
1 with interchangeable frames, 
265 
S warming-board, 258 
S warming-box, 261 
Swarms choosing same spot, 146 
hunger or vagabond, 168 
leafy bough to take, 133 
returning, cause of, 139 
select a future home, 135 
sold by weight, 262 
succession of, 16 r 
to hive, 1 28 
to prevent s''cond, or after, 164 
uniting, 148 
without foundation, 510 
Swarm-takers, 132 
I Syrian bees. 616 
Syringing swarms, *13 1, 137 
Syrup-can, 381 
Syrup, to make, 379 
T. • 
Taking up bees. 367 
Tallow to prevent sticking, 55, 601 
