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INDEX. 
T. 
Table, Illustrating the incrcaso of stocks 
by artificial swarming, 185; of form- 
ing nuclei, 191. 
11 Taking up bees,” facilitated by mov. 
comb hive, 209 ; suggestions os to 
time of, 306 (note). 
Temperature of hive, rises at time of 
swarming, 130. 
Theories often fail, when put to a prac- 
tical test, 175 (note). 
Thistle, Canada, a good bee-plant, 
296. 
Thompson, poetical extract from, upon 
killing bees, 239 ; on bees in linden 
trees, 293. 
Thorlcy, John, first stupefied bees by 
puff-ball smoke, 210. 
Tidd, M. M., his experiment on a female 
moth. 230 (note 2) ; notices the defer- 
ence between tongue of tho male and 
female moth, 230. 
Time of bees, economized in mov. comb 
hive, 95, 96 ; importance of saving, 
305. 
Timid persons may safely remove sur- 
plus honey, 289-291 ; should use bee- 
dress while hiving bees, 132,154; often 
stung while other persons seldom are, 
168 ; some should not attempt to rear 
bees, 209. 
Toad, eats bees, 254. 
Tobacco, should not bo used for subdu- 
ing bees, 169. 
Top-boxes, for surplus honey, should be 
used with caution, 330 (note). 
Transferring bees from common to mov. 
comb hivo, 282-284 ; mode of, 282 ; 
best time for, 283 ; results of, 284. 
Transportation of bees, easy in mov. 
comb hivo, 281. 
Traps for moths, usually worthless, 
244. 
Trees, combs built on, by bees, 118 ; 
apiaries should bo near, 131 ; substi- 
tute for, 131; limbs of, need not be cut, 
in hiving bees, 133 ; shade of, agreo- 
able to bees, 280 ; honey-producing 
292. 
1 slip (poplar, or white wood) , troo yields 
great quantities of honey, 292. 
U. 
Vnion of colonics, facilitated by giving 
them tho sumo smell, 203 ; mode of, 
203. 204 ; for wintering, 336. 
Vubclief in revelation not prompted by 
true philosophy, 52. 
Vncleanly persons disagreeable to bees, 
V. 
Varnish, used by bees In place of propo- 
lis 80. 
Varro, his remark, that bees in largo 
hives become dispirited, 208. 
Ventilation, furnished to larva? by shape 
of colls, 75 ; of tho hivo, 88-94 ; pro- 
duced by the fanning of bees, 83 ; 
Huber on, 88; its necessity, 89; re- 
marks on, in human dwellings, 91 ; 
provided for and easily controlled in 
mov. comb hive, 93, 94 ; artificial, 
must be simple to be useful, 93 ; 
should be attended to, after swarming, 
124 ; ample, should bo given, while 
bees are storing honey, 288, 366 ; how 
to give, in Winter, 338; upward, needed 
In Winter, 338, 340 (note), 241 , 360. 
Vice, effect of, on man, compared to ra- 
vages of tho moth, 235. 
Virgil, described tho Italian bee, 318. 
W. 
Wagner, Samuel, letter of, on mov. comb 
hive, 17—18 ; theory of, on how queen 
determines sex of egg, 38 ; his account 
of bees building comb on a tree, 118 
on tho effect of soil on the quality 
of honey-yielding plants, 294 (note) ; 
on tho Swedish whito clover, for bees 
and stock, 295 ; letter of, on over- 
stocking, 300 ; letter of, on tho Italian 
bee, 317 ; extracts from, on preserving 
tho purity of tho Italian bee, 323 
(notes) ■ states a remarkable fact con 
corning hybrid bees, 324 (note 2) ; at 
tempt of, to import Italian boo, 328 
(note) ; translation of Sclioltz on win- 
tering bees, 348-360. 
War, how waged by different colonics, 
263. 
Wasps, fecundation of, 35 ; injure fruit, 
86 ; should bo destroyed in Spring, 87; 
torpid in Winter, 109. 
Water, necessary to bo supplied for bees 
confined, 189 (and note) ; tho refusal 
of, in Spring, by bees, indicative of a 
queonlcss colony, 219 (and note); cold, 
useful In checking robbery, 265 ; in- 
dispensable to bees when building 
comb, or rearing brood, 271, 342-346 ; 
bees neod, in cold weather, 342-346; 
advantages of giving, to bees iu cold 
Springs, 343 
Wax, scales of, wood-cuts, PI. XIII., Figs, 
37 and 38 ; secrotod from honey. 69, 
275 ; pouches for, 69 ; wood-cut of, PI. 
XIII., Fig. 38; Huber’s experiments 
on secretion of, 69 ; pollen may aid its 
secretion, 70 ; its elements. 71 ; largo 
quautity of honey consumed in secre- 
tion of. 71 ; shavings of, used by bees, 
to build now comb, 72 ; a bad con- 
ductor of heat, 73 ; pollen useful in its 
secretion, 82, 197 ; origin of, discovered 
by Hornbostel, 204 (note); tho food of 
the larva? of the bee-moth, 233, 247 
how to reudor, from comb, 288. 
