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INDEX. 
T. 
Tabic, illustrating the increase of stocks 
by artificial swarming, 185; of form- 
ing nuclei, 1-Jl. 
“Taking up bees,” facilitated by mov. 
comb hive, SO ) ; suggestions as to 
time of, 30G (note). 
Temperature of hive, rises at time of 
swarming, 130. 
Theories often fail, when put to a prac- 
tical test, 175 (note). 
Thistle, Canada, a good bee-plant, 
296. 
Thompson, poetical extract from, upon 
killing bees, 239 ; on bees in linden 
trees, 293. 
Thorley, John, first stupefied bees by 
puff-ball smoko, 2 in. 
Tidd, M. M., his experiment on a female 
moth. 230 (not • 2) ; notices the differ- 
ence between tongue of the male and 
female moth, 230. 
Time of bees, economized in mov. comb 
hive, 95, 96 ; importance of saving, 
305. 
Timid persons may safely remove sur- 
plus honey , 289-291 ; should use bco- 
dress while hiving bees, 132, 154; often 
stuug while other persons seldom are, 
168 ; some should not attempt to rear 
bees, 209. 
Toad, eats bees, 254. 
Tobacco, should not be used for subdu- 
ing bees, 169. 
Top-boxes, for surplus honey, should be 
used with caution, 330 (note). 
Transferring bees from common to mov. 
comb hive, 282-284 ; mode of, 282 ; 
best time for, 283 ; results of, 284. 
Transportation of bees, easy in mov. 
comb hive, 281. 
Traps for moths, usually worthless, 
244. 
Trees, combs built on, by bees, 118 ; 
apiaries should be near, 131 ; substi- 
tute for, 131; limbs of, need not bo cut, 
in hiving bees, 133 ; shade of, agree- 
able to bees, 280; honey-producing 
292. 
Tulip (poplar, or white wood), tree yields 
great quautitics of honey, 292. 
U. 
Union of colonies, facilitated by giving 
them the same smell, 203 ; mode of, 
203. 204 ; for wintering, 336. 
Unbelief in revelation not prompted by 
true philosophy, 62. 
Uncleanly persons disagreeable to bees, 
813. 
y. 
Varnish , used by bees in place of propo- 
lis, SO 
Varro, his remark, that bees in largo 
hives become dispirited, 208. 
Ventilation, furnished to larvse by shape 
of cells, 75 ; of the hive, 88-94 ; pro- 
duced by the fanning of bees, 83 ; 
Huber on, 88; its necessity, 89; re- 
marks on, In human dwellings, 91 ; 
provided for and easily controlled in 
mov. comb hive, 93, 94; artificial, 
must be simple to be useful, 93 ; 
should be attended to, after swarming, 
124 ; ample, should bo given, while 
bees are storing honey, 288, 360 ; how 
to give, in Wiuter, 338; upward, needed 
in Winter, 338, 340 (note), 241, 360. 
Vice, effect of, on man, compared to ra- 
vages of the moth, 235. 
Virgil, described the Italian bee, 318. 
W. 
Wagner, Samuel, letter of, on mov. comb 
hive, 17-18 ; theory of, on how queen 
determines sex of egg, 38 ; his account 
of bees building comb on a treo, 118 ; 
on the effect of soil on the quality 
of honey-yielding plants, 294 (note) ; 
on the Swedish white clover, for bees 
and stock, 295 ; letter of, on over- 
stocking, 300 ; letter of, on the Italian 
bee, 317 ; extracts from, on preserving 
the purity of the Italian bee, 323 
(notes) ; states a remarkable fact con 
corning hybrid bees, 324 (note 2) ; at 
tempt of, to import Italian boe, 328 
(note) ; translation of Scholtz on win- 
tering bees, 348-360. 
War, how waged by different colonies, 
263. 
Wasps, fecundation of, 35 ; injure fruit, 
86 ; should be destroyed in Spring, 87; 
torpid in Winter, 109. 
Water, necessary to be supplied for bees 
confined, 189 (and note) : the refusal 
of, in Spring, by bees, indicative of a 
queenless colony, 219 (and note); cold, 
useful in checking robbery, 265 ; in- 
dispensable to bees when building 
comb, or rearing brood, 271, 342-346 ; 
boes need, in cold weather, 342-346- 
advantages of giving, to bees in cold 
Springs, 343 
Wax, scales of, wood-cuts, PI. XIII., Figs. 
37 and 38 ; secreted from honey. 69, 
275 ; pouches for, 09 ; wood-cut of, PI. 
XIII., Fig. 38; Huber’s experiments 
on secretion of, 69 ; pollen may aid its 
secretion, 70 ; its elements, 71 ; largo 
quantity of honoy consumed in secre- 
tion of, 71 ; shavings of, used by bees, 
to build now comb, 72 ; a bad con- 
ductor of heat, 73 ; pollen useful in its 
secretion, 82, 197 ; origin of, discovered 
by Hornbostel, 204 (note); the food of 
the larvas of the bee-moth, 233, 247 ; 
how io render, from comb, 288. 
