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INDEX. 
times not discovered b j bees tor some 
time, 218 (and note) ; excitement in 
hivo when discovered, 218; will not 
cause bees to abandon the hive if 
they are supplied with brood-comb, 
218 ; nucleus system will remedy it, 
219 ; indications of, 219 ; the most 
common cause of destruction of stocks 
by bee-moth, 219. 
Lunenburg. number of colonics of bees 
in, 802 ; bees of, moro than pay all tho 
taxes, 302. 
M. 
Mahan, P. J., on causing bees to adhere 
to new locations, 163 (note) ; interest- 
ing observations of, 219 (note) ; his 
discovery that drones leave their 
hives with honey and return without 
nny, 224 ; on tho odor of tho queen, 
220 (note 2). 
Maple-tree a source of honey, 292. 
Maraldi, anecdote from, of bees and a 
snail, 78. 
Materials for hives, 331. 
M*-al, a substitute for pollen, 84, 219. 
Medicine, poison of bco, used for, 315 
(note) . 
Mice ravages of, and protection against, 
252. 
Miller, seo Bee-moth. 
Mills, John, on marking hives with dif- 
ferent colors, 216 (note). 
Mixing of bees, of different colonies, 203 ; 
precautions concerning, 203. 
Months of tho year, direction for treating 
bees in, 302-369. 
Moonlight, bees sometimes gathor honey 
by, 73 (note). 
More, Sir J., on tho sovereign virtues of 
honey, 287 (uote). 
Moth, seo Bee-moth. 
Moth, death-head, 240 (note). 
Moth, largo honey-eating, from Ohio, 241 
(note). 
Mothors, unkind treatmont of, reproved 
by bees, 312. 
Mother-stock, in forced swarming, easily 
supplied with fertile queen, 182 ; ex 
posed to perish without a prompt sup- 
ply of queon, and by over swarming, 
if left to supply itself, 182 ; also to bo 
robbed, 182 ; advantage of supplying 
with fertile queon, 183. 
Moth-proof hives a delusion, 228, 238, 
247. 
Moths, honey-eating, ravages of, 240< 
(and uoto). 
Motions, in operating on hives should bo 
deliberate, 170. 
Movable-comb hive, invention of 13-23 ; 
superiority to Pziorzon’s, 16, 18 ; ena- 
bles each bee-keeper to observo for 
himsolf, 23, 164 ; admits of easy re- 
moval of old comb, 60 ; bees in it 
easily supplied with empty comb, 71 : 
its facilities for ventilation, 94, 276 
(note 1) ; size of, adjustable to the 
wants of colony, 96, 329 ; facilities of, 
for securing surplus honey, 100, 289, 
329 ; advantages of, for preventing 
after-swarming, 124, 140 ; enables one 
person to superintend various colo- 
nies, 102, 226 ; not easily blown down, 
103 ; may bo made secure against 
mice, 103, 252, and thieves, 104 ; dura- 
bility of, 104 ; cheapness and simplic- 
ity of, 106 ; some desirables it docs 
not possess, 105 ; invention of, result 
of experience, 106 ; perfection dis- 
claimed for, 105 : merits of, submitted 
to experienced oec-keepers, 108 ; de- 
sertion of, by swarms, easily prevent- 
ed, 115; by use of, can employ all 
good worker comb, 130; furnishes 
storage-room for non-swarming bees, 
139 ; importance of, in supplying ex- 
tra queens, 141, 188 ; easily cleared of 
the bee-moth, 246 ; best for non* 
swarming plan, 153 ; enables tho api- 
arian to learn the laws regulating tho 
internal economy of bees, 164 ; ena- 
bles artificial swarming to be quickly 
performed, 164 ; advantages of mov. 
able top of, 168 ; affords facilities for 
supply of fertile queens to mother 
stocks, in forced swarming, 182, 192 ; 
danger of being stung, diminished by 
use of, 209 ; the greatest obstacle to 
its speedy introduction, 209 ; the au- 
thor sanguine of its extensivo uso by 
skilful bee-keepers, 211 ; should bo 
thoroughly examined in Spring, 221 ; 
durable and cheap, if properly taken 
care of, 221 ; advantages of, readily 
perceived by intelligent bee-keopors, 
226 ; adaptation of, to protect stocks 
from tho moth, 249 ; enables tho apia- 
rian to know the amount of honoy 
stocks contain, 276 (note) ; how pre- 
pared for transporting bees, 281 ; to 
transfer into, from common hivo, 283 ; 
designed to economize tho labor of 
bees, 305 ; experiments concerning tho 
size of, 330 (note 3) ; suggestions as to 
making, 332; observing, 332; how to 
get honoy in centre of, for Winter, 336; 
how to make Winter passages in combs 
of, 337 (and note 1) ; how to ventilato, 
in Winter, 338 ; bills of stock, for mak- 
ing. 371. 
Movable ontranco blocks, seo Blocks, 
ontranco regulating. 
Movablo bottom boa rds, dangerous, 231. 
Movable stands for hives, 279. 
Moving stocks, 281. 
Munu, W. A., his “bar and frnmo 
hivo,” 209 (note). 
Musk, used to stop robbing, 266 (note). 
