4 
C ONTENTS. 
Size of hives needed, . . .37 
An Experiment, . . . .37 
Bees do not increase if full after the 
first year in same hive, . . 38 
Gill more *8 system doubted, . . 38 
Utility of moth-proof hives doubted, 39 
Instincts of the bee always the 
same, 40 
Profit the object, . . . 41 
Common hive recommended, . . 42 
Size Important, . . . .42 
Small hives most liable to accidents, 42 
Apt to deceive, .... 43 
Unprofitable if too large, . . 43 
Correct size between two extremes, 43 
Size for warm latitudes, . . 44 
Larger hives more safe for long 
Winters or backward Spring, . 44 
2000 inches safe for this section, . 45 
Kind of Wood, width of Board, &c. 46 
Shape of little consequence, . 46 
Directions for making hives, . . 47 
Size of cap and boxes, . . .48 
Miner’s Hive, 48 
Directions for making holes, . . 49 
A Suggestion, 60 
Glass boxes preferred, . . . 61 
Glass boxes— how made, . . 61 
Guide-combs necessary, . . . 62 
Wood Boxes, . > . . . .63 
Cover for Hives, . . . .54 
Jars and Tumblers — how prepared, 64 
Perfect Observatory Hive descri- 
bed, 65 
One like Common Hive preferred, . 66 
What may be seeD, . . .66 
Directions for making Glass Hive, . 67 
Plate for Hive, ... .61 
CHAPTER III. 
BREEDING. 
Imperfectly Undertsood, 
62 
A test for the presence of a 
Good stocks seldom without brood, 
63 
Queen, . 
73 
How small stocks commence, 
64 
When Drones are reared, 
74 
Different with larger ones, 
65 
When Queens, .... 
74 
How Pollen is stored in the breeding 
Liability of being destroyed, . 
76 
season, 
65 
Drones destroyed when honey is 
Operation of Laying, and the Eggs 
scarce, 
77 
described, .... 
66 
Old Queen leaves with the first 
Time from the Egg to the perfect Bee, 
67 
swarm, 
78 
Rough treatment of the young Bee, 
67 
A young Queen takes the place of 
Guess-work, 
68 
her mother in the old stock, 
79 
Terms applied to young Bees, 
69 
Other Theories, .... 
80 
Discrepancy in time in rearing brood 
Subject not understood, . 
80 
as given by Huber, . 
70 
Necessity for further observa- 
The number of Eggs deposited by 
tion, 
84 
the Queen guessed at, 
71 
Two sides of the question, 
85 
CEAPTEB IV. 
BEE 
PASTURAGE. 
Substitute for Pollen, 
88 
Red Raspberry a favorite, . , 
91 
Manner of packing it, 
89 
Catnip, Mother-wort, and Hoar- 
Alder yields the first, 
89 
hound, are sought after, . 
92 
Fruit Flowers important in good 
Singular fatality attendant on Silk- 
weather, .... 
91 
weed, 
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