Index 
455 
Queen-rearing, 417. 
-rearing conditions, 62, 419. 
Queen’s action in swarming, 65. 
classification, 426. 
Questionable manipulations, 261. 
Races, 192. 
Rearing of queens, 417. 
Reaumur, 48. 
Red clover bees, 200. 
Regional differences, 205. 
Regions of United States, 207. 
Remedial manipulations, 278. 
measures, 272. 
Removal of brood, 283. 
Removing honey for extracting, 291. 
Rendering wax, 334. 
Reports on honey crop, 434. 
Reproductive processes, 181. 
Requeening, 282, 418. 
Requirements of wintering, 344. 
Respiration, 151. 
Restricted regions, 211. 
Restrictions in comb-honey produc¬ 
tion, 305. 
of egg-laying, 281. 
Results to be expected, 19-21. 
Retail honey packages, 321. 
Reversible extractors, 294. 
Rewards for adulterated comb-honcv, 
302. 
Ripe fruit not injured by bees, 368. 
Ripening of honey, 117. 
Robbing, prevention, 249. 
Roof apiary, 18, 19. 
Ropiness, American foul brood, 399. 
European foul brood, 402. 
Royal jelly, source, 111. 
Rudiments of organs in embryo, 97. 
Sacbrood, 402. 
Sage region, 210. 
Salivary glands of worker, 111. 
Scale, American foul brood, 399. 
Scent gland, 65. 
in entering hive, 68. 
Schiemenz, 112. 
Schonfeld, 112. 
Scouts for swarms, 67. 
Scraping sections, 325. 
Search for good locations, 360. 
Seat for apiary, 31, 32. 
Second swarms, 71. 
Sections, evolution of, 307. 
preparation, 311. 
types, 308. 
Segmentation of embryo, 98. 
Selling honey, 332. 
Semi-arid region, 210. 
Semi-pupa stage, 103. 
Sense organs, 165. 
Settling wax, 337. 
Sex determination, 188. 
of workers, 62. 
Shaking treatment, 404. 
Shipping bees, 223. 
cases, 328. 
comb-honey, 329. 
Sight, 166. 
Silk gland, origin, 98. 
of cocoon, 101. 
Site of apiary, 228. 
Size of apiary, 232. 
of the colony, 39. 
Skill, importance of, 22. 
Sladen, 172. 
Slaughter of drones, 44. 
Sleep of bees, 50. 
Slumgum, 336. 
Smell, 169. 
Smoker, 29, 30. 
Snodgrass, 113, 114, 132, 439. 
Social bees, 192. 
Solar wax extractor, 335. 
Sources of nectar and pollen, 359. 
South-eastern region, 209. 
Spacing of frames, 28. 
Spermatheca, 182. 
Spermatozoa, origin, 184. 
Spraying, damage from, 367. 
laws, 432. 
trees in bloom, 366. 
Spreading the brood, 262. 
Spring activities, 55. 
dwindling, 128, 258, 358, 410. 
management, 255. 
Statistics of beekeeping, 4. 
Steam-heated knife, 294. 
Stimulative feeding, 261. 
Sting, 158. 
Stingless bees, comparison of nest, 53. 
Sting of queen, 42. 
