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INDEX. 
of queens over thoir development, 47 ; 
laid ten months in tlie year, 48, 339 ; 
supernumerary, how disposed of, 48 ; 
vcutilutiou necessary lor hatching, 89 ; 
of workers transferred to royal cells, 
219 ; of bee-moth, 234 (note 2). 
Eh rentals, proilts of his largo apiary, 
300. 
Enemies of bees, 228-255; moth, 228- 
252 ; mice 252 ; birds, ~52, toads, 254 ; 
bears, 254 ; ants, 255 ; wasps, spiders, 
&c., 255 ; all agreed in fondness for 
honey, 255. 
Energy of bees, instructive, 197. 
Engravings, see wood-cuts. 
Entrance of hives, should not ordina- 
rily bo above the level of the bottom- 
board, 98 ; should bo readily varied 
without perplexing the bees, 98 ; a 
small upper one, uses of, 260, 388 (and 
note); should bo nearly closed when 
colony is threatened by robbers, 264 ; 
how to regulate in Winter, 338. 
Epitaph on boes killed by sulphur, 239. 
Ether used for stupefying bees, 210. 
Evans, Dr., quotations from poem of, 
on bees, 50, 60, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 109, 
267, 292. 
Experiments, an interesting one, 67 ; of 
Huber, showing the use of pollen, 80 ; 
author’s to the same clfoct, 81 ; nume- 
rous, of author, 179 ; cautions con- 
cerning, to beginners, 179 ; bee-keep- 
ers invited to make, 180 ; of Huber, 
showing two kinds of workers, 193 
(note); difficulty of demonstration by, 
193 (note) ; l)r. DonhofPs, showing 
that young boos are nurses and old 
bees honey -gatherers. 194 ; of author, 
in wintering bees, 339 ; of E. T. Stur- 
tevaut, 340 ; of Berlepsch and Ebor- 
hardt, 342 ; of J. C. Bodwell, 345 ; of 
Mr. Scholtz, 348 ; further, needed, in 
wintering boos, 360. 
Examination of combs and bees in hive, 
importance of, in Spring, 221. 
Experience renders bee-keeping profit- 
able, 282. 
F. 
Facts, however wonderful, should bo 
received, 42. 
Faecos, appearance of, in young and old 
bees, different, 197 ; healthy bees do 
not discharge, in hive, 347 ; how to 
make boos in mov. comb hives, safely 
clwcnargo , 361 (and note). 
Faint-heartedness, rebuked, 198. 
Famine causes bees to abandon hives, 
116 . 
Fear, effect of, in taming boes, 27 ; in 
uniting swarms, 204. 
Feeble stocks unprofitable, 141, 177, 269, 
330. 
Feeder, convenience of, In mov. comb 
hive, 270 ; construction of, 271 : PI. 
XL., Fig. 26. 
Foeding bets, 267-278 ; few things raoro 
important in practical bec-kooping, 
267 ; Spring feeding specially neces- 
sary, 267 (and note); caution in, re- 
quired, 268 ; over-feeding, like pam- 
pering children, 268 ; to be submit- 
ted to only in extremities, 268 ; how 
done, in common hives, 269 ; diffi- 
cult to build up small colonies by, 
269 ; equitable division of resources, 
in, 270 ; when it should be done for 
Winter, 270 ; wlmt should bo used in, 
270 ; unprofitable in late Fall stocks, 
270 (note); mode of, by means of a 
feeder, 271 ; water should be supplied, 
271, 342 ; importance of salt, in, 272 ; 
eugar-candy a good and cheap article 
for, 272 (and note), and 273 (note); 
Kleiuo’s inode of using candy, 273, 
274 ; value of grape-sugar for, 273 ; 
Sholz’ sugar-honey for, 274 ; gruuulat- 
ed sugar for, 274 (and note) ; quantity 
of honey needed for, to Winter bees. 
274 ; weight of hives, unsafe standard 
to determine amount of honey for, 
275 (note); caution to be observed in, 
277 ; should not bo too early in the 
Fall, 298 ; cheap honey, to sell again, 
unprofitable in, 275. 
Fertility of queens, 32 ; diminishes with 
age, 141, 223 ; diminished by hunger 
and cold, 223 (note 1). 
Fishback, Judge, his precautions to pre- 
vent loss of young queens, 216 ; his ex- 
perience with the boe-motn. 240(uote). 
Flight of bees, its extent, 305; its rapidity, 
305 (note 21. 
Flowers for Sees, Nutt’s catuloguo of, 
298 ; garden, furnish little bee-pasture, 
297. 
Foul-brood, its malignity, 19, 256; dry 
and moist, 266 ; remedy, 257, 258 ; a 
disease exclusively of the larvie, 269 ; 
supposed cause, 256 (note), 259 ; liablo 
to appear the second time, 259. 
Forcing-box, its size and use, 154,165. 
Frames, movable, invented by author, 
15 ; how they must be made to bo 
lifted out of hive, 150, 171, 209 (note) ; 
process of removing from the Uivo, 
171, 370 (PI. XXIV.): with comb used 
for patterns, 208 ; effect on bee-culture, 
211 (note) ; a protection agaiust the 
ravages ol the moth, 239, 241 ; render 
the cleaning of hive easy, 243 ; used 
by Berlepsch. 321 (note 2) : approved 
of by Siobold, 321 (note 2), not well 
adapted to tall hives, 830. 
Friesland, East, its productiveness in 
honey, 304. 
Fruit, honey boes beneficial tc, 85-S7 
wasps and hornets injurious to. 80. 
Fruit-trees, blossoms of, yiold honey, 
