INDEX. 
651 
Tanging bees, 127 
Temperature, best, for wintering, 
520 
Tent to prevent robbing, 421 
Test-tube to insert queen, 350 
Thickened combs, to treat, 270 
Three out of two, 251, 267 
Throwing, 238 
Tiering hive and system, 51, 91, 
490, 494 
Tin-can feeder, 384 
Toad, 579 
Top covering important, 61 
Torula in dysenteric bees, 572 
Transferring, 242 
old and new method, 250 
when possible, 249 
Transferring-board, 245 
Treatment of stocks after swarming, 
151 
Trigona, 628 
Twin hive, 56, 150, 529 
nuclei for queen-raising, 303 
Two queens in a hive, 326 
Type-metal plates for making mid- 
ribs, 179 
U. 
Uncapping, 481 
Uncapping-knife, 482 
Uncapping-machine, 482 
Unicomb hive, 115 
Union of sw’arms, 148 
United swarms, how^ to separate, 148 
Uniting, 432 
condemned bees, 433 
Mr. Raitt’s plan, 436 
nuclei, 305, 437 
stocks, 434 
stocks on distant stations, 436 
swarms, 433 
to secure honey, 497 
twin stocks, 303, 437 
weak stocks, 437 
V. 
Vagabond sw’arms, 168 
swarms of Apis dorsata, 627 
Variation in ttie bee, 227 
Vaseline to prevent sticking, 55. 60 r 
Veil, 9 
Ventilation required, 523, 530 
Viallon candy, 337 
Vinegar made from honey, 585 
to prevent stinging, 25 
Virgin extracted honey, 514 
queen goes first in swarming, 
160 
queens, to introduce, 313, 330, 
339 , 341 
Vulcanite feeding-stage, 386 
W. 
Wasps, 579 
nests to be destroyed, 580 
Water, 404 
Waterproofing roofs, 12 1 
Wax adulteration, 196, 594 
analysis of, 589 
extractor, 591 
its origin, 589 
judging purity of, 595 
moth, 575 
secreted before swarming, 126 
sheet making, 180 
solar extractor, 593 
specific gravity of, 596 
to melt without w'aste, 589 
to mould, 594 
to prevent discolouring, 591 
to remove stains of, 596 
to render, from old combs, 590 
Wax-bleaching, 596 
Wax-smelter, 176 
Webster’s fumigator, 21 
Weeds, to prevent, 364 
Weighing bees, 262 
Weight of bees, 212 
of star\-ed bees, 263 
Weiss, inventor of foundation-ma- 
chine, 185 
White bees, 633 
Wild bees, 372, 375 
mustard, 359 
Windbrake for apiar}’, 361 
Windows of operating-house, 362 
Wing-clipping, 140 
how’ performed, 142 
