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INDEX. 
of queens over their development, 47 ; 
laid teu months in tho year, 48, 339 ; 
supernumerary, how disposed of, 48 ; 
ventilation necessary for hatching, 89 ; 
of workers transferred to royal cells, 
219 ; of oee-moth, 284 (note 2). 
Eh re nfo Is, protlts of his large apiary, 
300. 
Enemies of bees, 228-255 ; moth, 228- 
252 ; mice 252 ; birds, 252, toads, 254 ; 
bears, 254 ; ants, 255 ; wasps, spiders, 
&c., 255; all agreed in fondness for 
honey, 255. 
Energy ol' bees, Instructive, 197. 
Engravings, see wood-cuts. 
Entrance of hives, should not ordina- 
rily be above tho level of the bottom- 
board, 98 ; should bo readily varied 
without perplexing the bees, 98 ; a 
small upper one, uses of, 250, 388 (and 
note); should bo nearly closed when 
colony is threatened by robbers, 264 ; 
how to regulate in Winter, 338. 
Epitaph on bees killed by sulphur, 239. 
Ether used for stupefying bees, 210. 
Evans, I)r., quotations from poem of, 
on bees, 60, 60, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 109, 
267, 292. 
Experiments, an interesting one, 67 ; of 
Huber, showing the use of pollen, 80 ; 
author’s to the same cll'ect, 81 ; nume- 
rous, of author, 179 ; cautions con- 
cerning, to beginners, 179 ; bee-keep- 
ers invited to make, 180 ; of Huber, 
showing two kinds of workers, 193 
(note); difficulty of demonstration by, 
193 (uote) ; Dr. DouhofPs, showing 
that young bees are nurses and old 
bees honey -gatherers. 194 ; of author, 
in wintering bees, 339 ; of E. T. Stur- 
tevant, 340 ; of Berlepseh and Eber- 
hardt, 842 ; of J. C. Bod well, 345 ; of 
Mr. Scholtz, 348 ; further, needed, in 
wintering bees, 360. 
Examination of combs and bees in hive, 
importance of, in Spring, 221. 
Experience renders bee-kcepiug profit- 
able, 282. 
F. 
Facts, however wonderful, should be 
received, 42. 
Faeces, appearance of, in young and old 
bees, difierent, 197 ; healthy bees do 
not discharge, in hive, 347 ; how to 
make bees in mov. comb hives, safely 
dwenarg'*, 361 (and notcV 
Faint-neartedncss, rebuked, 198. 
Famine causes bees to abandon hives, 
116. 
Fear, effect of, in taming bees, 27 ; in 
uniting swarms, 204. 
Feeble stocks unprofitable, 141, 177, 269, 
336. 
Feeder, convenience of, In mov. comb 
hive, 270 ; construction of, 271 ; PI. 
XL., Fig. 26. 
Feeding bees, 267-278 ; few things raoro 
important in practical bee-keeping, 
267 ; Spring feeding specially neces- 
sary, 267 (and note); caution in, re- 
quired, 268 ; over-feeding, like pam- 
pering children, 268 ; to bo submit- 
ted to only in extremities, 268 ; how 
done, in common hives, 269 ; diffi- 
cult to build up small colonies by, 
269 ; equitable division of resources, 
in, 270; when it should be done for 
Winter, 270 ; what should be used in, 
270 ; unprofitable in late Fall stocks, 
270 (note); mode of, by means of a 
feeder, 271 ; water should bo supplied, 
271, 342 ; importance of salt, in, 272 ; 
sugar-candy a good and cheap articlo 
for, 272 (and note), and 273 (note); 
Kleine’s mode of using candy, 273, 
274 ; value of grape-sugar for, 273 ; 
Sholz’ sugar-honey for, 274 ; granulat- 
ed sugar lor, 274 (and note); quantity 
of honey needed for, to Winter bees, 
274 : weight of hives, unsafe standard 
to determine amount of honey for, 
275 (note) ; caution to be observod in, 
277 ; should not bo -too early in the 
Fall, 298 ; cheap honey, to sell again, 
unprofitable in, 275. 
Fertility of queens, 32 : diminishes with 
age, 141, 223 ; diminished by hunger 
and cold, 223 (note 1). 
Fishback, Judge, his precautions to pre- 
vent loss of young queens, 216 ; his ex- 
perience with tho bee-moth, 240(note). 
Flight of bees, its extent, 3U5; its rapidity, 
305 (note 2). 
Flowers for Does, Nutt’s catalogue of, 
298 ; garden, furnish little bee-pasture, 
297. 
Foul-brood, its malignity, 19, 256: dry 
and moist, 256 ; remedy, 257, 258 ; a 
disease exclusively of the larva), 259 ; 
supposed cause, 256 (note), 259 ; liablo 
to appear tho second time, 259. 
Forciug-box, its size and use, 154,165. 
Frames, movable, invented by author, 
15 ; how they must be made to bo 
lifted out of hive, 150, 171 , 209 (note) ; 
process of removing from tho hive. 
171,370 (PI. XXIV.): with comb used 
for patterns, 208 ; effect on bee-culture, 
211 (uote) ; a protection against tho 
ravages ot the moth, 239, 241 ; rondor 
the cleaning of hive easy, 243 ; used 
by Berlepsch, 321 (note 2) : approved 
of by Siebold, 321 (note 2), not well 
adapted to tall hives, 330. 
Friesland, East, its productiveness in 
honey, 304. 
Fruit, honey bees bcnoflcinl to, 86-87 
wasps and hornets injurious to, 86. 
Fruit-trees, blossoms of, yield honey, 
292. 
