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times not discovered by bees tor some 
time, 218 (and note) ; 'excitement in 
hive when discovered, 218; will not 
cause bees to abandon the hive if 
they are supplied with brood-comb, 
218 ; nucleus system will remedy it, 
219 ; indications of, 219 ; the most 
common cause of destruction of stocks 
by bee-moth, *219. 
Lunenburg, number of colonies of bees 
in, 302 ; bees of, more than pay all the 
taxes, 302. 
M. 
Mahan, P. J., on causing bees to adhere 
to new locations, 103 (note) ; interest- 
ing observations of, 219 (note) ; his 
discovery that drones leave their 
hives with honey and return without 
any, 224; ou the odor of the queen, 
226 (uoto 2). 
Maple -tree a source of honey, 292. 
Maraldi, anoedoto from, of bees and a 
snail, 78. 
Materials lor hives, 331. 
Meal, a substitute lor pollen, 84, 219. 
Medicine, poison of bee, used for, 315 
(note) . 
Mice, ravages of, and protection against, 
252. 
Miller, seo Bee-moth. 
Mills, John, ou marking hives with dif- 
ferent colors, 216 (note). 
Mixing of bees, of dilfereut colonies, 203 ; 
precautions concerning, 203. 
Months of the year, direction for treating 
bees in, 362-369. 
Moonlight, bees sometimes gather honey 
by, 73 (note). 
More, Sir J., on the sovereign virtues of 
honey, 287 (note). 
Moth, see Bee-moth. 
Moth, death-head, 240 (note). 
Moth, large honey -eating, from Ohio, 241 
(note). 
Mothers, unkind treatment of, reproved 
by bees, 312. 
Mother-stock, in forced swarming, easily 
supplied with fertile queen, 182 ; ex 
posed to perish without a prompt sup- 
ply of queen, and by over swarming, 
If left to supply itself, 182 ; also to be 
robbed, 182; advantage of supplying 
with fertile queen, 183. 
Moth-proof hives a delusion, 228, 238, 
247. 
Moths, honey-eating, ravages of, 240 
(anu note). 
Motions, In operating on hives should be 
deliberate, 170. 
Movable-comb hive, invention of 13-23 ; 
superiority to Dziorzon’s, 16, 18 ; ena- 
bles each bee-keeper to observo for 
himself, 23, 164 ; admits of easy re- 
moval of old comb, 60 ; bees in it 
easily supplied with empty comb, 71 ; 
its facilities for ventilation, 94, 276 
(note 1) ; size of, adjustable to the 
wants of colony, 96, 329 ; facilities of, 
for securing surplus honey, 100, 289, 
329 ; advantages of, for preventing 
after-swarming, 124, 140 ; enables one 
person to superintend various colo- 
nies, 102, 226 ; not easily blown down, 
103 ; may be made secure against 
mice, 103, 252, and thieves, 104 ; dura- 
bility of, 104 ; cheapness and simplic- 
ity of, 105 ; some desirables it does 
not possess, 105 ; invention of, result 
of experience, 105 ; perfection dis- 
claimed for, 105 ; merits of, submitted 
to experienced bee-keepers, 108 ; de- 
sertion of, by swarms, easily prevent- 
ed, 115 ; by use of, can employ all 
good worker comb, 130; furnishes 
storage-room for non-swarming bees, 
139 ; importance of, in supplying ex- 
tra queens, 141, 188 ; easily cleared of 
the bee-moth, 246 ; best for non- 
swarming plan, 153 ; enables the api- 
arian to learn the laws regulating the 
internal economy of bees, 164 ; ena- 
bles artificial swarirftng to be quickly 
performed, 164 ; advantages of mov. 
able top of, 168 ; affords facilities for 
supply of fertile queens to mother 
stocks, in forced swarming, 182, 192 ; 
danger of being stung, diminished by 
use of, 209 ; the greatest obstacle to 
its speedy introduction, 209 ; the au- 
thor sanguine of its extensive use by 
skilful bee-keepers, 211 ; should be 
thoroughly examined in Spring, 221 ; 
durable and cheap, if properly taken 
care of, 221 ; advantages of, readily 
perceived l>y intelligent bee-koepers, 
226 ; adaptation of, to protect stocks 
from the moth, 249 ; enables the apia- 
rian to know the amount of honey 
stocks contain, 275 (note) ; how pre- 
pared for transporting bees, 281 ; to 
transfer into, from common hive, 283 • 
designed to economize the labor of 
bees, 305 ; experiments concerning the 
Size of, 330 (note 3) ; suggestions as to 
making, 332 ; o! serving, 332 ; how to 
get honey in centre of, for Winter, 336; 
how to make Winter passages in combs 
of, 337 (and note 1) ; how to ventilate, 
in Winter, 338 ; bills of stock, for mak- 
ing, 371. 
Movable entrance blocks, seo Blocks, 
entrance regulating. 
Movable bottom-boards, dangerous, 231. 
Movable stands for hives, 279. 
Moving stocks, 281. 
Muun, W. A., his “bar and frame 
hive,” 209 (note). 
Musk, used to stop robbing, 205 (note). 
