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INDEX, 
Aristotlo, notlcod similarity of drono and 
worker-eggs, 42 ; observed that bees 
collect pollen from one kind of llowcr 
at a time, 83 ; observation of, concern- 
ing the night and feeding of drones, 
224 (note) ; on the difficulties which 
perplex tlie Apiarian, 276 (note); de- 
scribed the Italian bee, 318. 
Artificial honey, recipe for, 276 (note). 
Artificial rearing of queens, 188 ; the 
process to bo performed late in the 
day, 188 ; honey and water to be sup- 
plied to boos in, 189 ; wliou to confine 
bees in, 189. 
Artificial swarming, 143, 211 ; not per- 
formed by Columella, 147 (note) : ill 
success of ancient method of, 148 ; 
Huber’s plan of, objectionable. 148 ; by 
dividing hives, unsatisfactory , 149 ; by 
removing full hives and substituting 
empty ones, worse, 150, 161 ; by self- 
colonizing hives, ineffectual, 151; causes 
of failure of, 152 ; has received great 
attention from author, 153 ; mode 
of, adapted to common hives, 154 ; 
cautious handling of combs in, need- 
ful, 155 (and note); how to prevent 
bees in, from returning to old stand. 
150, 157 ; not to bo performed till 
drones appear, 158 ; tokens of the ab- 
sence or presence of the queen in, 158; 
how to proceed if the queen is absent, 
169 ; if done in morning or late in after- 
noon. how to proceed to secure bees 
for the old stock, 160 ; proportion of 
bees necessary for old stocks iu, 160 ; 
new and decoy-hive should resemble 
that of parent stock, or adjoining hives 
be covered, 160 ; mode ot, by exchang- 
ing hives. 160 ; by juxta-positlou, 161 ; 
by confining bees in parent stock, 161 ; 
preferable plan when to bo done on a 
large scale, 162 ; rapidity of this plan, 
162 (note) ; its advantages. 163 ; Dr. 
Dfinholf’s method of, 163 ; now to at- 
tach bees to new places, in, 163 (note); 
ditlicult for persons ignorant of the 
laws which control the breeding of 
bees, 164 ; easily performed with mov. 
comb hive, 164 : mode of performing 
it, 165 ; queen to be sought for, 166 ; 
supply of sealed queens provided for, 
166 ; great care necessary in transfer- 
ring sealed queens, 167 ; should not bo 
attempted in cool weather, or when 
dark, 107 ; early morning best time 
for, 167 ; little uangor attending. 167, 
168 ; perfectly safe even at mid-day, 
168 ; sugar-water often better than 
smoko, useful in, 168 ; honey-water 
objectionable, 169 (note); caution in, 
enjoined, 170; how to apply sugar- 
water In, 170 ; how to remove frames 
in, 170 ; rapidly performed, 173 ; best 
mode of, 180, 181 ; supply of queens 
to mother-stocks, iu, 182 ; obviates 
the risk of after-swarming, 184 ; capa- 
ble of sale expansion, 185 : how to 
double stocks by, 185 ; Dzierzon’s 
mode of, 186 ; author’s mode of, for 
Single apiaries, 186 ; mode of, re- 
sembling natural swarming, 186: 
mode of, by reversing position of 
hives, 187 ; how to provide a full 
supply of queens lor, 188 ; nucleus for 
rearing queens for, 189 ; rapid in- 
crease of stocks by, 190 ; how to in- 
duce bees, iu, to rear queens on con- 
venient parts of the comb, 191 ; how 
to secure adhering bees for the nuclei 
iu, 192 (and note 2); queens, in, made 
to supply several stocks with eggs, 
193 ; mother-stocks, in, should bo 
kept strong, 199 ; most successful 
when forage is abundant, 199 ; haz- 
ardous in a crowded apiary, 200 ; how 
to supply stocks, iu, with stranger- 
queens, 200 ; queen-cage for, 201 ; 
union of bees of different stocks in, 
203 ; practiced in ancient times, 210. 
Artificial swarms, whore should be put, 
158 ; how to know whether they have 
a queen, 158 ; will accept a strange 
queen, 159 (note) ; cautions to be ob- 
served iu locating, 159 ; how to make, 
by slightly changing position of parent 
stock, 161 ; how to form several with 
one nutural swarm, 163 ; quickly 
made Id mov. comb hive, 164, 173 : 
wheu to force, in cases of retarded 
swarming, 174 ; canuot be formed by 
merely transferring combs and bees 
into an empty Live, 175 ; caution 
against too rapid multiplication of, 
175 (note); the piling mode of forming, 
its advantages, 188 ; not to be increas- 
ed so as to reduce the strongth of the 
mother stock, 199; attempts at rapid 
increase of, in vicinity of sugar-houses, 
&c., 199 ; dillloult to form wheu forage 
is scarce, 199. 
Asters, furnish valuablo pasturage for 
bees, 298. 
Attica, its yield of wax and honey, 304. 
Austria, value of its houcy crop, 304 
Axioms, bee-keoper’s, 369. 
B. 
Baldcnstcin, Capt., on Italian bee, 318 ; 
Ill-success of, in propagating puro 
breed, 319. 
Bar-hives, ancient, 210 (note) , author’s 
experiments with, 14. 
Basket, used as a Inver, 133. 
Bass-wood, see Linden. 
Bears, destroyers of hoes, 251 
Boo-hob, to attract swarms, 132. 
Bee-bread, soo Pollen. 
Boo-dross, uso of, rocoinmendod, 132. 
209, 316. 
