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INDEX. 
tity consumed In secreting wax, 71, 
170; gathered by day, 72; sometimes 
gathered by moonlight, 73 (note) ; 
honey-gathering and comb building 
simultaneous, 73 ; surplus, incompati- 
ble with rapid increase of colonies, 170 ; 
how to secure the largest yield of, 180 ; 
more abundant tlfty years ago than 
now, 236 ; reasons assigned for the 
dcQcioucy, 237 ; foreign, supposed 
cause of foul brood, 250, 258 ; from 
foul-brood colonies, infectious, 256 
(noto 2) : infected, how puriiled, 257 ; 
West India, used for bee-feed, 250 
(uote), 270 ; and sugar (Sholz’ com- 
position), 274; quantity of, necessary 
for wintering stocks, 274 ; poor, not 
convertible into good, 275 ; not a secre- 
tion of the bee, 275 (and note 2) ; re- 
tains the Uavor of the blossoms from 
whence it is taken, 275: evaporation 
produces the principal changes in, 276 
(and note 1) ; “ making over” honey 
not profitable, 276 ; recipe for artificial, 
276 (note) : a vegetable product, 285 ; 
qualities or, vary, 287 ; hurtful quali- 
ties cured by boiling, 287 (and note) ; 
should not be exposed to low tem- 
perature, 287 ; old, moro wholesome 
than new, 237 ; virtues ascribed to it 
by old writers, 287 (noto) ; to drain 
from the comb, 288, 366 ; to make 
liquid when cainliod, 288 ; caution as to 
West India, 288 (note) ; of Hymottus, 
2 >3 (note) ; yield of, affected by soil, 
234 (note) ; from the raspberry, deli- 
cious, 2J6 ; yield of, by plants uncer- 
tain. 2.i6 (note 2) ; large amount gath- 
ered in a day, 303 ; ou the hands, pro- 
tects them against bee-stings, 317 ; 
bees eat less in Winter, when kept 
quiet, 335, 348, 358 ; how to got in 
centre of hive, for Winter, 336 ; can- 
died, bees need water to dissolvo, 3-12- 
344. 
Honey-bag, worker’s, 50 (I’l. XVII., Fig. 
54). 
Honey-bees, see Bees. 
Honey-board, spare, holes in, left open 
in Winter, 338 ; sometimes strongly 
glued by bees, 172 (note) ; care in 
placing necessary, 173. 
Honey-dews, 2S5 ; of California, 285 
(noto) ; when most abundant and 
where found, 286. 
Honey-hornets, Mexican, 58 (note) 87. 
Honey-resources, how to increase, 2 >3. 
Honey-8ucklo, juice of, a romody for bee- 
stings, 315. 
Honey, surplus, much, incompatible with 
rapid multiplication of stocks, 170, 178 ; 
best yield of, from undisturbed stocks, 
180; receptacles for, when to admit 
bees to, 288,364; how secured, 239; 
quantity from one stock. 28‘J (note 2) ; 
large boxes rao'o profitable than small, 
for, 289 (and noto 2), 200 (note 1) , 
glass vessels and small boxes, for, 290, 
air-tight boxes, to preserve, 2 <0 (noto 
2) ; receptacles of, liow and when to 
remove them, 291,365 ; boxes for, bees 
reluctant to 1111, late in the season, 366. 
Honey-water, objectionable for subduing 
bees, 1C9 (uote). 
Hornets, fecundation of, 35 ; Mexican, 
honey, 58 (note), 87 ; injure fruit, 80 ; 
should ho destroyed in Spring, 87 ; tor- 
pid in Winter, 109. 
Horses sweaty, very offensive to bees, 
279, 313. 
Horticulturists, honey-bees their friends, 
85, 87. 
Houses, ventilation of, neglected, 91. 
Huber, Francis, tribute to, 32-34; dis- 
covered how queens aro impregnated, 
34 ; that unfecuudod queens produco 
only drones, 36; experiments of, to 
test the secretion of wax, 69 ; to show 
the use of pollen, 80 ; his discovery of 
ventilation by bees, 88 ; his supposition 
as to development in queen of malo 
eggs, 128 (uote) ; his plan for artificial 
swarming and its objections, 148; effect 
of his leaf hive in pacifying be.es, 168 ; 
his mistake us to the cause, 169 ; an in- 
convenience of his hive, 171 (uote) ; his 
description of workers, 192 (note 2) ; 
his curious experiments showing a dis- 
tinction among them, 193 (note) ; his 
tribute to Burucus, 194 (noto) ; his ac- 
count of the treatment by bees of 
strange queens, 200 ; bis trial of two 
queens in a hive, 207 (note) ; splendid 
discoveries of, formerly ridiculed, 211. 
Humble-boo robbed by honey-bees, 262. 
Hunger impairs fertility of queon-bco, 
221 (note 1). 
Hunt, Bov. T. P.,his mode of socuring 
swarms, 132. 
Hunter, I)r.. discovers pollen in tho 
stomach ot bees, 80. 
Hurting bees, important to avoid, 95. 
Ilygiuus, ou feoding bees, 267 (note). 
I. 
Impregnation, of qucon-bccs, 34—13 ; ro- 
turdod, effect of, 30 ; remarkable law 
of, in aphides, 42: takes place in tho 
air, 50, 320 ; act of, fatal to drone, 125, 
126 (note) ; Shrimpliu’s experiment 
illustrative of, 127. 
Italian honey-bees, 41 ; singular result 
of crossing with common drones, 41, 
324 (note 2) ; usod to show a division 
of labor among bees, 194; account of 
318-328 ; described by Aristotlo and 
Virgil, 318 ; Mr. Wagner’s letter oil 
318 ; their modern introduction to no- 
lice, 318 ; value of, in tho study of tin* 
physiology of tho honey-bee, 319 
cells of, tho same size as those of Ltio 
