iy ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
Bees, Three Classes, 13— Worker, 16— Drone, 15— Queen, 13— Her Fertilization, 
26— Her Loss, 29— Signs of 30 
Bees, Killing with Brimstone to Obtain Honey, 124 — A Better Way, 50 
Bees, Natural Swarming, 19— Hiving, 21— How to Prevent them Horn Leaving 
the Hive, 26 — Wintering, 107 
Bees, Wild, How to Hunt them, 89— How to Trap Robbers or Wild Bees with- 
out Finding the Tree, 0-1 
Bees, Italian, 71— Superiority of, 73— How' to Change Stocks of Common Black 
Bees to Italians, 75 
Bees, Monthly Management of, 117— Quieting and Handling, 86— Moving, 96— 
Transferring Bees and Combs into Frame Hives, 97, 133 
Boxes for Surplus Honey, 50— How to Induce the Bees to Commence and Con- 
tinue Working in them, 50, 131 
Breeding, 17— High Temperature Necessary, 130— Induced by Feeding, 113 
Buckwheat a Valuable Pasturage, 40 — Times of Sowing, 44 
Buying Bees, How to Select Valuable Stocks, S3 
Cage for Queen, 32 
Candy as Food for Bees in Winter, 112 
Catnip as a Honey Crop, 40* 45 
Cells, Different Size of Drone and Worker, 18 — Royal Cell, 22, 66 
Cocoon Spun by Young Bee is left in the Cell, 53 
Colony if Prosperous Consists of, 13 
Color of Hives, 30, 133 
Comb, Composition of, 46— To Secure it Built True In Frames, 48 
Comb, Drone and Worker, 18-64— To Preserve from Moth 105 
Comb, only Defective to be Removed, 53— Melting into Wax, 54 
Cultivating Honey Crops, 43 
Dampness Injurious to Bees, 53, 112 
December Management, *22 
Defective Combs,.. 53 
Dividing, 51 
Doubling Stocks Yearly by Nucleus Swarming, 70 
Driving or Forced Swarming, 57 
Drones, 18— Drone Comb, IS* 5-1 
Eggs, Number Laid, 14,— How Fecundated, 14— Time to Mature, 18 
February Management, 117 
Feeding Bees, 112 
Fertility of Queen, 14— Decreases with age, 81— Italian most Prolific, 73 
Flowers for Bees, 40 
Flour a Substitute for Pollen, 43 
Foul Brood, 54 
Frames, Movable, Their Invention and Improvement, 125 
Fruit-Tree Flowers Valuable to Induce Early Swarming, 18, 39 
Handling Bees, 36 
