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INDEX. 
Salt, fondness of bees for, 272. 
Scout, seo smell and odor. 
Schinch, on artifleial rearing of queens, 
148. 
Scouts sent out by swarms to find a new 
home, 117 ; necessity of, 118. 
Scraper for cleaning the bottom-board 
of mov. comb hive, 347. 
Scudamore, I)r., on many swarms clus- 
tering together, 137. 
Secret recipe for keeping stocks strong, 
sham vendor of, 238. 
Scholtz, Mr., on wintering bees in clamps, 
348-360. 
Sex of bees, determined by queen, 38. 
Shakspeare’s description of tho Hive, 
268. 
Shrimplin. experiment of, showing im- 
pregnation to take placo in tho air, 
127. 
Sick persons, tho caro of, beneficial to 
man, 313. 
Siebold, Professor, extracts from his 
Parthenogenesis, 126 (note) ; his dis- 
section of spermathcca, 127 (note) ; 
found spermatozoa in worker, but not 
in drone eggs, 41 ; on boo lifo, 144 
(note); recommends movable frames, 
321 (not 2). 
Sight of bees, acute, for distant objects, 
117. 
Signs of swarming, 111 ; of quocnlcss 
colonies, 219, 224; of presence of moths 
In hive, 242. 
Size of hives, 329-332. 
Smell, of hives, in gathering season, 177 
(uote)- strange bees distinguished by, 
203 ; tlie same, to bo given in uniting 
colonies, 203 ; sense of, in bees, acute, 
313 ; of their own poison, irritates bees. 
314. 
Smoke, Importance of, in subduing bees, 
27, 154 ; its use in forced swarming, 
165, 168, 169 ; its use of. very ancient, 
210; drives clustered bees inside of 
hive, 281 ; useful in removing surplus 
honey. 289. 
Smothering bees, cautions for prevent- 
ing, 281. 
Snails, sometimes covorod by bees with 
propolis, 78. 
Snow, bees perish on, when carrying out 
their dead, 98; sometimes fatal to 
bees, 338 (note 1); often harmless to 
bees, 861 (note 1). 
Solidugo, see Golden Rod. 
8ontag, F., on meal as a substitute for 
pollen, 84. 
Spare honey, see Honey, surplus. 
Spermathcca, of tho queen bee, wood- 
cut and description of, 35 ; PI. XVIII., 
Fig. 55; dissection of, 34, 126 (note), 
213 (note). 
Spermatozoa, found In spermathcca of 
quoon-boe, 34, 120 (note). 
Sphinx Atropos, see Moth, Death -head. 
Spinola. described tho Italian bee, 818 
(note). 
Spring, importance of sun-heat in, to 
hives, 101 ; feeble stocks, in, unprofit- 
able, 177 ; examination of bees, in, im- 
portant, 221 ; colonies should be fed, 
in, 267, 268. 
Sprinkling bees, should not be done to 
excess, 170 ; cools their robbing froo 
zy, 203. 
Starving of bees, often happens when 
there is honey in the hive, 336, 342. 
Sting, Bovan’s description of, 56 ; PI. 
XVII., Fig. 53; microscopic appear- 
ance of, 57 ; loss of, fatal to bees, 57 ; 
loss of, in stinging, a benefit to man, 
68 ; of queen, 65 ; wood-cut of queen’s, 
PI. XVIII. 
Sting, poison of, dangerous to some, 313 ; 
remedies for, 314-317 ; smell of poison 
of, irritating to bees, 314 ; instant ex- 
traction of, important. 314 ; rubbing 
the wound made by, should bo avoid- 
ed, 314; Mr. Wagner’s remedy for, 316; 
different remedies answer for different 
persons, 315: human system may bo 
inured to, 316 (uote); amusing remedy 
for, 316 (note). 
Stinging, bees when gorged, disinclined 
to, 25, 169, 308 ; little risk of, unless 
bees arc irritated, 28. 108, 170 ; risk of, 
diminished by use or mov. comb hivo, 
209 ; diseased bees inclined to, 310 ; 
risk of, not increased by proximity to 
tho hive. 211 (note) ; not to bo feared 
from a bee away from its hive, 312 ; 
efl'ect of, sometimes dangerous, 312 ; 
Italian bee less inclined to, than com- 
mon bee, 322. 324. 
Stocks, of bees (sec also colonies of bees), 
enfeebled by “ in-and-in breeding,*' 
64 ; strong, will rapidly fill empty 
comb, 71 ; often lose young quuons 
after swarming, 141 ; fewer in this 
country than thero were years ago, 
145 ; often refuse to swarm, 139, 145 ; 
147 ; new, work better than old, 153 ; 
if weak in Spring, usually unprofitable, 
and sometimes require to be fed, 177 ; 
tho less disturbed, the bettor for sur- 
plus honey, 180 ; best mode for rapid 
increase of, 184 ; doubling, trebling, 
&c., 185 ; subject to great loss of bees 
in storms, 186 ; rapid increase of, hopo- 
less in vicinity of sugar-houses, &c., 
199 ; hostility of, to strange quoens, 
200 ; when united, tho bees should bo 
gorged with honey, 204 ; will adhere to 
the hive when tho queen is lost, if sup- 
plied with brood-comb, 218 ; queenless, 
should bo broken up, if not supplied 
with a queen or brood-comb, 218 ; 
Spring-cnro of, 221 ; healthy, destroy 
the drones when forage is scarce, 224. 
weak, with uncovered comb, infestod 
by moths, 242 ; suffering from hunger 
