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INDEX. 
tity consumed in secreting wax, 71, 
176 ; gathered by day, 72 ; sometimes 
gathered by moonlight, 73 (note) ; 
honey -gathering and comb building 
simultaneous, 73 ; surplus, incompati- 
ble with rapid increase of colonies, 176; 
how to secure the largest yield of, lSl) ; 
more abundant ty'ty years ago than 
now, 236; rcasGtos assigned for the 
deficiency, 237 ; foreign, supposed 
causo of foul brood, 256, 258 ; from 
foul-brood colonies, infectious, 256 
(note 2) ; iufocted, how purifled, 257 ; 
West India, used for bee-feed, 256 
(note) , 270 ; and sugar (Sholz’ com- 
position), 274; quantity of, necessary 
for wintering stocks, *274 ; poor, not 
convertible into good, 275 ; not a secre- 
tion of the bee, 275 (and note 2) ; re- 
tains the flavor of the blossoms from 
whence it is taken, 275 ; evaporation 
produces the principal changes in, 276 
(and note 1) ; “ making over” honey 
not profitable, 276 ; recipe for artificial, 
276 (note) : a vegetable product, 285 ; 
qualities of, vary, 287 ; hurtful quali- 
ties cured by boiling, 287 (and note) ; 
should not be exposed to low tem- 
perature, 287 ; old, more wholesome 
than new, 287 ; virtues ascribed to it 
by old writers, 287 (uote) ; to drain 
from the comb, 288, 366; to make 
liquid when candied, 288 ; caution as to 
West India, 288 (note) - of Hymettus, 
253 (note) ; yield of, affected by soil, 
254 (note) ; from the raspberry, deli- 
cious, 236 ; yield of, by plants uncer- 
tain, 2 J6 (uote 2); large amount gath- 
ered in a day, 303 ; on the hands, pro- 
tects them against bee-stings, 317 ; 
bees eat less in Winter, when kept 
quiet, 335, 348, 358 ; how to get in 
centro of hive, for Winter, 336 ; can- 
died, bees need water to dissolve, 342- 
344. 
Honey-bag, worker’s, 66 (PI. XVII., Fig. 
64). 
Honey-bees, see Bees. 
Honey-board, spare, holes in, left open 
in Winter, 338 ; sometimes strongly 
glued by bees, 172 (note) ; care in 
placing necessary, 173. 
Honey-dews, 2S5 ; of California, 285 
(note) ; when most abundant and 
wherd found, 286. 
Ilonoy-hornets, Mexican, 58 (note) 87. 
Honey-resources, how to increase, 2)3. 
Honey suckle, juice of, a remedy for bee- 
stings, 315. 
Honey, surplus, much, incompatible with 
rapid multiplication of stocks, 176, 178 ; 
best yield of, from undisturbed stocks, 
180 ; receptacles for, when to admit 
bees to, 288,364; how secured, 289; 
quantity from one stock. 239 (note 2) ; 
large boxes mo-e profitable than small, 
for, 289 (and note 2), 290 (note 1) , 
glass vessels and small boxes, for, 230, 
air-tight boxes, to preserve, 2.’0 (note 
2) ; receptacles of, how ami when to 
remove them, 291,365 ; boxes for, bees 
reluctant to fill, late in the season, 366. 
Honey-water, objectionable lor subduing 
bees, It 9 (note). 
Hornets, fecundation of, 35 ; Mexican, 
honey, 58 (note), 87 ; injure fruit, 80 ; 
should bo destroyed in Spring, 87 ; tor- 
pid in Winter, 109. 
Horses sweaty, very oflensive to bees, 
279, 313. 
Horticulturists, honey-bees their friends, 
85, 87. 
Houses, ventilation of, neglected, 91. 
Huber, Francis, tribute to, 32-34; dis- 
covered how queeus aro impregnated, 
34 ; that unfecundcd queeus produce 
only drones, 36; experiments of, to 
test the secretion of wax, 69 ; to show 
the use of pollen, 80 ; his discovery of 
vontilation by bees, 88 ; his supposition 
as to development in queen of male 
eggs, 128 (note) ; his plan for artificial 
swarming and its objections, 148; effect 
of bis leaf hive in pacifying bees, 168 ; 
his mistake as to the^ause, 169 ; an in- 
convenience of his hive, 171 (note) ; his 
description of workers, 192 (note 2) ; 
his curious experiments showing a dis- 
tinction among them, 193 (note) ; his 
tributo to Bu mens, 194 (note) ; his ac- 
count of the treatment by bees of 
strange queens, 200 ; his trial of two 
queens in a hive, 207 (note) ; splendid 
discoveries of, formerly ridiculed, 211. 
Humble-bee robbed by honey-bees, 262. 
Hunger impairs fertility of queen-bco, 
223 (note 1). 
Hunt, Rev. T. P.,his mode of securing 
swarms, 132. 
Hunter, Dr., discovers pollen in the 
stomach of bees, 80. 
Hurting boes, Important to avoid, 95. 
Hygiuus, on feeding boes, 267 (note). 
I. 
Impregnation, of queon-bccs, 34-43 ; re- 
tarded, effect of, 36; remarkable law 
of, in aphides, 42: takes place in the 
air, 50, 320 ; act of, fatal to drone, 125, 
126 (note) ; Shrimplin’s experiment 
illustrative of, 127. 
Italian honey-bees, 41 ; singular result 
of crossing with common drones, 41, 
324 (note 2) ; used to show a division 
of labor among bees, 194; account of 
318-328 ; described by Aristotlo and 
Virgil, 318 ; Mr. Wagner’s letter on 
318 ; their modern introduction to no- 
tice, 318 ; value of, in the study of the 
physiology of the honey-boo, 319 ; 
cells of, the same size as those of tho 
