INDEX. 
403 
N. 
Narcotics, in managing bees, worse than 
useless, 211. 
Natural swarming and hiving of swarms, 
109-142 ; guards against extinction of 
bees, 109 ; not unnatural, 111 ; time 
of, 111 ; seldom occurs in northern 
climates, when hives arc not well fill- 
ed with comb, 111 (note) ; signs of, 
111: only in lair weather, 112 ; time 
of day of, 112 ; preparation of bees 
for, 112 ; queen often lost in, 113 ; ring- 
ing of bells and tanging, useless, 113 ; 
how to stop a fugitive swarm, 114; 
after, ventilation should be regulated, 
124 ; hiving should be done in shade, 
or hive be covered, 130 ; should be 
promptly attended to after swarm 
settles, 132 ; process of, 133 ; basket 
for, 133 ; sheet for, 133 ; how arrang- 
ed, 133 ; how to expedite, if bees aro 
dilatory, 133, 134; must be repeated 
if queen not securod 134 ; small limbs 
cut with pruning shears in, 134 ; when 
swarm out of reach, how to secure, 
134 ; when in difllcult places, or two 
swarms cluster together, 135 ; how to 
secure queen, 136 ; old-fashioned way, 
objectionable, 136 ; more than one 
swarm in a hive, 137 ; to prevent 
swarms uniting while hiving, 138 ; 
swarms, as soon as hived, should be 
removed to their stands, 138 ; au ex- 
pedient, if uo hive be ready, 139 ; sug- 
gestions for making more prod table, 
139-142 ; oxccssivo, prevented by use 
of mov. comb hive, 140 ; affords no fa- 
cilities for strengthening late and feo- 
ble stocks, 140 ; objections to, 139-147 ; 
uncertainty of, 147 ; why some stocks 
refuse to swarm, 147. 
11 Now England Farmer,” extract from, 
describing a combat of queens, 205. 
Night-work, on bees, hazardous, 167. 
Non-s warmer, author’s, prevents swarm- 
ing, 174 ; excludes drones, 228 : facili- 
ties it oilers to preserve pure the Ital- 
ian bee, 826 ; wood-cut of, PI. II., 
Fig. 5. 
Non-swarming colonies, may loso their 
queens, or queens become unfertile, in 
common hive, 153 ; queens may bo 
supplied to, in mov. comb hive, 153. 
Non-swarming hive, advocated by many, 
154 ; objections to, 153 ; mov. comb 
hive best for, 153. 
Nuclei, what they are, and how to form 
them, 189; to obtain adhering bees 
for, 192 (and note) : must not be allow- 
ed to got too much reduced, 197 ; al- 
ways furnish plonty of queens, 219. 
Nutt, his list of boo flowers, 298. 
Nymph, boo, see Pupa. 
O. 
Objections to natural swarming, 143-147. 
Observing-hive, mov. comb, 332-334 ; 
Hon. S. Brown’s experiment with, 205 : 
its facilities for observing the Internal 
operations of the bees, 332 ; for winter- 
ing, 332 (note) ; those with single 
frames recommended, 333 ; adapted 
for the parlor, 333 ; how to stock with 
bees, 333 ; source of pleasure and in 
structiou, 333 ; may be kept in cities, 
333. 
Odor, of Queens, 226 , 266 ; of drones, 226 
(note 1) : of workers, 203. 
Odors, uuplcasant, offensive to bees, 313 ; 
used to prevent robberies, 265 (note) ; 
excite bees to auger, 313. 
Octtl, remarks of, on over-stocking, 303 ; 
his goldon rule in bee-keeping, 303; 
his statistics of bee culture, 303. 
Old age, signs of in bees, 59. 
Oliver. H. K., observations of, on bco- 
motfi, 251. 
Onions, blossoms of, yield much honey. 
293. 
Ovaries of queen-bee, 35, (PI. XVIII.); of 
workers, aro undeveloped, 29, 54. 
Over-stocking, 299-307 ; no danger of. 
299 ; Wagner’s letter on, 300 ; Octtl 
aud Braun’s statistics on, 303. 
Ovum, what necessary to impregnate 
it, 41. 
P. 
Paint, smell of fresh, detested by bees, 
129 ; if fresh be used, it should contain 
no white lead, and bo made to dry 
quickly, 129 ; recipe for, preforablo to 
oil paint, 129 ; color of, for hives, 368. 
Pasturage for bees, 292 ; effect of, on re- 
moval of colonies, 157 ; honey-yielding 
trees and plants, 292-2 9 ; gardens too 
limited for, 297 ; catalogue of bee- 
plants, 298 ; range of, 305. 
Patent hives, deceptions in vending, 61 
(note), 106.146 (note) ; have greatly 
multiplied the boe-moth , 237 ; aud done 
more harm than good, 237, 241. 
Peach-tree, yields honey, 292. 
Pear-tree yields honey, 292. 
Peppermiut, uso of iu uniting colonies, 
203. 
Perfection, folly of claiming for hives, 106. 
Perfumes, disagreeable to bees, 313 
(note) . 
Perseverance of bees, worthy of imita- 
tion by man, 197. 
Persons attacked by boes, directions for, 
312, 314. 
Peters, Randolph, interesting experiment 
of, 219 (note). 
Pillage of hives, secret, cause aud remedy 
of, 260. 
