652 
INDEX. 
Winter condensation of bees, 516 
loss in weight during, 523 
passages, 517 
Wintering, 515 
candy cake for, 5 1 7 
stores, amount of, 417 
Wire to cut combs from skep, 244 
Wire-cloth veil, 10 
Wired foundation, 200 
frames, 206 
Woodbur\' top bar, 173 
Wood’s imitation queen-cells, 339 
Worker in queen-cell, 154 
Worker-cells converted into queen- 
cells, 287 
size of, 39 
I Worker-comb secured from casts, 
163 
Y. 
Young bees agree wdth any queen, 
352 
queens to prevent swarming, 
277 
Z. 
Zinc, excluder, 74, 98 
injurious action of, 479 
to prevent corrosion of, 382 
Zinc-excluding honey-board, 98 
