INDEX. 
403 
Narcotics, In managing bees, worse than 
useless, til. 
Natural swarming and hiving of swarms, 
109-142; guards against extinction of 
bees, 109 ; not unnatural, 111 ; time 
of, 111 ; seldom occurs in northern- 
climates, when hives arc not well fill- 
ed with comb, 111 (note) ; signs of, 
111: only in fair weather, 112 ; time 
of day of, 112 ; preparation of bees 
for, 112 ; queen often lost in, 113 ; ring- 
ing of bells aud tanging, useless, 113 ; 
how to stop a fugitive swarm, 114 ; 
after, ventilation should be regulated, 
124 ; hiving should bo done in shade, 
or hive bo covered, 130 ; should bo 
promptly attended to after swarm 
settles, 132 ; process of, 133 ; basket 
for, 133 ; sheet for, 133 ; how arrang- 
ed, 133; how to expedite, if bees arc 
dilatory, 133, 134; must be repeated 
if queen not secured 134 ; small limbs 
cut with pruning shears in, 134 ; when 
swarm out of reach, how to secure, 
134 ; when in difficult places, or two 
swarms cluster together, 135 ; how to 
secure queen, 136 ; old-fashioned way, 
objectionable, 136 ; more thau one 
swarm in a hive, 137 ; to prevent 
swarms uniting whilo hiving, 138 ; 
swarms, as soon as hived, should be 
removed to their stands, 138 ; an ex- 
pedient, if no hive be ready, 139 ; sug- 
gestions for making more profitable, 
139-112 ; excessive, prevented by use 
of mow comb hive, 140 ; all'ords no fa- 
cilities for strengthening late and feo- 
ble stocks, 140 ; objections to, 139-147 ; 
uncertainty of, 147 ; why some stocks 
refuse to swarm, 147. 
“ Now England Farmer,” extract from, 
describing a combat of queons, 205. 
Night-work, on bees, hazardous, 167. 
Non-swnrmer, author’s, prevents swarm- 
ing, 174 ; excludes drones, 228 : facili- 
ties it offers to preserve pure the Ital- 
ian bee, 826 ; wood-cut of, PI. II., 
Fig. 5. 
Non-swarming colonies, may loso their 
queons, or queens become unfertile, in 
common hive, 153 ; queens may bo 
supplied to, in mow comb hive, 153. 
Non swarming hive, advocated by many, 
154 ; objections to, 153 ; mov. comb 
hivo best for, 153. 
Nuclei, what they aro, and how to form 
them. 189; to obtain adhoring bees 
for, 192 (and noto) : must not be allow- 
ed to get too much reduced, 197 ; al- 
ways furnish plouty of queens, 219. 
Nutt, his list of bco flowers, 298. 
Nymph, beo, soo Pupa. 
O. 
Objections to natural swarming, 143-147. 
Observiug-hivc, mov. comb, 332-334 ; 
Hon. S. Brown’s experiment with, 205 : 
its facilities for observing the internal 
operations of the bees, 332 ; for winter- 
ing, 332 (note) ; those with single 
frames recommended, 333 ; adapted 
for the parlor, 333 ; how to stock with 
bees, 333 ; sourco of pleasure and in 
struction, 333 ; may bo kept in cities, 
333. 
Odor, of Queens, 226, 266 ; of drones, 226 
(noto 1) : of workers, 203. 
Odors, unpleasant, offensive to bees, 313 ; 
used to prevent robberies, 265 (note) ; 
excite bees to anger, 313. 
Oettl, remarks of, on over stocking, 303 ; 
his golden rule in bee-keeping, 303 ; 
his statistics of bee culture, 303. 
Old age, signs of in bees, 59. 
Oliver. H. K., observations of, on bco- 
motli, 251. 
Onions, blossoms of, yield much honey, 
293. 
Ovaries of queen-bee, 35, (PI. XV11I.) ; of 
workers, aro undeveloped, 29, 54. 
Over-stocking, 299-307 ; no danger of. 
299 ; Wagner’s letter on, 300 ; Oettl 
and Braun’s statistics on, 303. 
Ovum, what necessary to impregnato 
it, 41. 
Paint, smell of fresh, dotestod by bees, 
129 ; if fresh be used, it should contain 
no white lead, aud bo mado to dry 
quickly, 129 ; recipe for, preferablo to 
oil paint, 129 ; color of, for hives, 368. 
Pasturage for bees, 292 ; effect of, on re- 
moval of colonies, 157 ; honoy-yioldlng 
trees and plants, 292-299 ; gardens too 
limited for, 297 ; cataloguo of beo 
plants, 298 ; range of, 305. 
Patent hives, deceptions in vonding, 61 
(note), 106.146 (note) ; have greatly 
multiplied the bee-motli, 237 ; and done 
more harm thau good, 237.241. 
Peach-tree, yields honey, 292. 
Pear-tree yields honey, 292. 
Peppermint, uso of in uniting colonics, 
203. 
Perfection, folly of claiming for hives, 106. 
Perfumes, disagreeable to bees, 313 
(note). 
Perseverance of bees, worthy of imita- 
tion l>y man, 197. 
Persons attacked by bees, directions for, 
312, 314. 
Potors, Randolph, interesting experiment 
of, 219 (noto). 
Pi lingo of hives, secret, causo and romedy 
of, 260. 
