4 
C ONTENTS. 
Size of hives needed, 
37 
Kind of Wood, width of Board, &c., 
46 
An Experiment, .... 
37 
Shape of little consequence, . 
46 
Bees do not increase if full after the 
Directions for making hives, . 
47 
first year in same hive, . 
38 
Size of cap and boxes, . 
48 
Gillmorc’s system doubted, . 
38 
Miner’s Hive, ..... 
48 
Utility of moth-proof hives doubted, 
39 
Directions for making holes, . 
49 
Instincts of the bee always the 
A Suggestion 
50 
same, 
40 
Glass boxes preferred, . 
51 
Profit the object, .... 
41 
Glass boxes — how made, 
51 
Common hive recommended, . 
42 
Guide-combs necessary, . 
52 
Size Important, .... 
42 
Wood Boxes, 
58 
Small liives most liable to accidents, 
42 
Cover for Hives, .... 
54 
Apt to deceive, .... 
43 
Jars and Tumblers — how prepared, 
54 
Unprofitable if too large, 
43 
Perfect Observatory Hive descri- 
Correct size between two extremes, 
43 
bed, 
55 
Size for warm latitudes, 
44 
One like Common Hive preferred, . 
56 
Larger hives more safe for long 
What may be seen, 
56 
Winters or backward Spring, . 
44 
Directions for making Glass Hive, . 
57 
2000 inches safe for this section, m . 
45 
Plate for Hive, ... 
61 
CHAPTER III. 
BREEDING. 
Imperfectly Undcrlsood, 
62 
A test for the presence of a 
Good stocks seldom without brood, 
63 
Queen, . 
73 
How small stocks commence, 
64 
When Drones arc 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 
CHAPTER 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, 
93 
