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INDEX. 
Aristotle, noticed similarity of drone and 
worker-eggs, 4*2 ; observed that bees 
collect pollen from one kind of flower 
at a time. 83 ; observation of, concern- 
ing the flight and feeding of drones, 
224 (note) ; on the difficulties which 
perplex the Apiarian, 270 (note); de- 
scribed tho Italian bee, 318. 
Artificial honey, recipe for, 276 (note). 
Artificial rearing of queens, 188 ; the 
process to be performed late in the 
day, 188 ; honey aud water to be sup- 
plied to bees in, 189 ; when to confine 
bees in, 189. 
Artificial swarming, 143, 211 ; not per- 
formed by Columella, 147 (note) ; ill 
success of ancient method of, 148 ; 
Huber’s plan of, objectionable. 148 ; by 
dividing hives, unsatisfactory, 149 ; by 
removing full hives and substituting 
empty ones, worse, 150, 151 ; by self- 
colonizing hives, ineffectual, 151 ; causes 
of failure of, 152 ; has received great 
attention from author, 153 ; mode 
of, adapted to common hives, 154 ; 
cautious handling of combs in, need- 
ful, 155 (and note); how to prevent 
bees in, from returning to old stand. 
156, 157 ; not to be performed till 
drones appear, 158 ; tokens of the ab- 
sence or presence of the queen in, 158; 
how to proceed if the queen is absent, 
159 ; if done in morning or late in after- 
noon, how to proceed to secure bees 
for the old stock, 160 ; proportion of 
bees necessary for old stocks in, 160 ; 
new and decoy-hive should resemble 
that of parent stock, or adjoining hives 
be covered, 160 ; mode or, by exchang- 
ing hives ? 160 ; by juxta-position, 161 ; 
by confining bees in parent stock, 161 ; 
preferable plan when to bo done on a 
large scale, 162 ; rapidity of this plan, 
162 (note) ; its advantages. 163 ; Dr. 
DCnhofT’s method of, 163 ; now to at- 
tach bees to new places, in, 163 (note); 
difficult for persons ignorant of the 
laws which control the breeding of 
bees, 164 ; easily performed with mov. 
comb hive, 104 : modo of performing 
It, 165 ; queen to bo sought for, 106 ; 
supply ol sealed quoens provided for, 
166 ; great care necessary in transfer- 
ring sealed queens, 167 ; should not bo 
attempted in cool weather, or when 
dark, 167 ; early morning best time 
for, 167 ; little danger attending, 167, 
168 ; perfectly safe even at mid-day, 
168 ; sugar-water often better than 
smoke, useful in, 168 ; honey-water 
objectionable, 169 (note); caution in, 
enjoined, 170 ; how to apply sugar- 
water in, 170 ; how to remove frames 
In, 170 ; rapidly performed, 173 ; best 
mode of, 180, 181 ; supply of queens 
to mother-stocks, in, 182 ; obviates 
tho risk of after-swarming, 184 ; capa- 
ble of safe expansion, 185; how to 
double stocks by, 185; Dziorzon’s 
mode, of, 186 ; author’s mode of, for 
single apiaries, 186 ; modo of, re- 
sembling natural swarming, 186: 
mode of, by reversing position of 
hives, 187 ; how to provide a full 
supply of queens for, 188 ; nucleus for 
rearing queens for, 189 ; rapid in- 
crease of stocks by, 190 ; how to in- 
duce bees, in, to rear queens on con- 
venient parts of the comb, 191 ; how 
to secure adhering bees for tho nuclei 
in, 192 (and note 2); queens, in, made 
to supply several stocks with eggs, 
193 ; muthcr-stocks, iu, should bo 
kept strong, 199 ; most successful 
when forage is abundant, 199 ; haz- 
ardous in a crowded apiary, 200 ; how 
to supply stocks, in, with stranger- 
queeus, 200 ; queeu-cago for, 201 ; 
union of bees of different stocks in, 
203 ; practiced in ancient times, 210. 
Artificial swarms, where should be put, 
158 ; how to know whether they have 
a queen, 158; will accept a strange 
queen. 159 (note) ; cautious to be ob- 
served in locating, 159 ; how to make, 
by slightly obangiug-position of parent 
stock, 161 ; how to form several with 
one natural swarm, 163 ; quickly 
made in mov. comb hive, 164, 173 : 
when to force, in cases of retarded 
swarming, 174 ; cannot he. formed by 
merely transferring combs and bees 
into uu empty hive, 175 ; caution 
against too rapid multiplication of, 
175 (note); the piling mode of forming, 
its advantages, 188 ; not to bo increas- 
ed so as to reduce the strength of tho 
mother stock, 199; attempts at rapid 
increase of, iu vicinity of sugar-houses, 
&c., 199 ; difficult to form when forago 
is scarce, 199. 
Asters, furnish valuable pasturage for 
bees, 298. 
Attica, its yield of wax and honey, 304. 
Austria, value of its honey crop, 304. 
Axioms, bee-keeper’s, 369. 
B. 
Baldenstein, Capt., on Italian bee, 318 ; 
ill-success of, in propagating pure 
breed, 319. 
Bar-llives, ancient, 210 (noto) , author’s 
experiments with. 14. 
Basket, used as a hlvor, 133. 
Bass-wood, see Linden. 
Bears, destroyers of bees, 254. 
Bee-bob, to uttract swarins, 132. 
Bee-bread, soo Pollen. 
Boo-dress, uso of, rocommeudod, 132, 
209, 316. 
