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INDEX. 
Salt, fondness of bees for, 272. 
Scout, see smell and odor. 
Schiraeh, on artificial rearing of queens, 
Scouts sent out by swarms to find a new 
home, 117 ; necessity of, 118. 
Scraper for cleaning the bottom-board 
of mov. comb hive, 347. 
Scudamore, Dr., on many swarms clus- 
tering together, 137. 
Secret recipe for keeping stocks strong, 
sham vendor of, 238. 
Scholtz, Mr., on wintering bees in clamps, 
348-360. 
Sex of bees, determined by queen, 38. 
Shakspeare’s description of the Hive, 
268. 
Shrimplin. experiment of, showing im- 
pregnation to take place in the air, 
127. 
Sick persons, the care of, beneficial to 
man, 313. 
Siebold , Professor, extracts from his 
Parthenogenesis, 126 (note) ; his dis- 
section of 8pormathcca, 127 (note) ; 
found spermatozoa in worker, but not 
in drone eggs, 41 ; on bee life, 144 
(note); recommends movable frames, 
321 (not 2). 
Sight of bees, acute, for distant objects, 
117. 
Signs of swarming, 111 ; of queenloss 
colonies, 219, 224; of presence of moths 
in hive, 242. 
Size of hives, 329-332. 
Smell, of hives, in gathering season, 177 
(note): strange bees distinguished by, 
203 ; tne same, to be given in uniting 
colonies, 203 ; sense of, in bees, acute, 
313 ; of their owu poison, irritates bees, 
314. 
Smoke, importance of, in subduing bees, 
27,154 ; its use in forced swarming, 
165, 168, 169 ; its use of. very ancient, 
210; drives clustered bees inside of 
hive, 281 ; usoful in removing surplus 
honey , 289. 
Smothering bees, cautions for prevent- 
ing, 281. 
Snails, sometimes covered by bees with 
propolis, 78. 
Snow, bees perish on, when carrying out 
their dead, 98 ; sometimes fatal to 
bees, 338 (note 1); often harmless to 
bees, 361 (note 1). 
Solidago, see Golden Rod. 
Soutag, F. , on meal as a substitute for 
pollen, 84. 
Spare honey, see Honey, surplus. 
Spermatheca, of the queen bee, wood- 
cut and description of, 35 ; PI. XVIII., 
Fig. 65 ; dissection of, 34, 126 (note), 
213 (note). 
Spermatozoa, found in spermatheca of 
queen-bee, 34, 126 (note). 
Sphinx Atropos, soo Moth, Death-head. 
Spinola. described the Italian bee, 318 
(note). 
Spring, importance of sun-heat in, to 
hives, 101 ; feeble stocks, in, unprofit- 
able, 177 ; examination of bees, in, im- 
portant, 221 ; colonies should be fed, 
in, 267, 268. 
Sprinkling bees, should not bo done to 
excess, 170 ; cools their robbing fron 
zy, 203. 
Starving of bees, often happens when 
there is honey in the hive, 336, 342. 
Sting, Bcvan’s description of, 6G ; PI. 
XVII., Fig. 53; microscopic appear- 
ance of, 57 ; loss of, fatal to bees, 57 ; 
loss of, in stinging, a benefit to man, 
58 ; of queen, 65 ; wood-cut of queen’s, 
PI. XVIII. 
Sting, poison of, dangerous to some, 313 ; 
remedies for, 314-317 ; smell of poison 
of, irritating to bees, 314 ; instant ex- 
traction of, important, 314 ; rubbing 
the wound made by, should be avoid- 
ed, 314; Mr. Wagner’s remedy for, 315; 
different remedies answer for different 
persons, 316; human system may be 
inured to, 316 (note); amusing remedy 
for, 316 (note). 
Stinging, bees when gonged. disinclined 
to, 25, 169, 308 ; little risk of, unless 
bees are irritated, 28. 168, 170 ; risk of, 
diminished by use of mov. comb hive, 
209 ; diseased bees inclined to, 310 ; 
risk of, not increased by proximity to 
the hive, 211 (note) ; not to bo feared 
from a bee away from its hive, 312; 
effect of, sometimes dangerous, 312 ; 
Italian bee less inclined to, than com- 
mon bee, 322. 324. 
Stocks, of bees (see also colonies of bees), 
enfeebled by “ in-and-in breeding,’’ 
54 ; strong, will rapidly fill empty 
comb, 71 ; often lose young quoons 
after swarming, 141 ; fewer in this 
country than there were years ago, 
146 ; often refuse to swarm, 139, 145 ; 
147 ; new, work better than old, 163 ; 
if weak in Spring, usually unprofitable, 
and sometimes require to be fed, 177 ; 
the less disturbed, the better for sur- 
plus honey, 180 ; best mode for rapid 
increase of, 184 ; doubling, trebling, 
&c., 185 ; subject to great loss of bees 
in storms, 186 ; rapid increase of, hope- 
less in vicinity of sugar-houses, &c., 
199 ; hostility of, to strange queens, 
200 ; when united, the bees should bo 
gorged with honey , 204 ; will adhere to 
the hive when the queen is lost, if sup- 
plied with brood-comb, 218 ; queenless, 
should be broken up, if not supplied 
with a quocn or brood-comb, 218 ; 
Spring-care of, 221 ; healthy, destroy 
the drones when forage is scarce, 22*1 ; 
weak, with uncovered comb, infested 
by moths, 242 ; suffering from hunger, 
