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Index 
Stings, remedies, 236. 
Stomach-mouth, 113. 
of larva, 100. 
Storage cells, 47. 
for comb-honey, 25, 317. 
in worker bees, 105. 
tanks, 290. 
Stores for winter, 344. 
Strained honey, 286. 
Straining honey, 298. 
Structure of comb, 47. 
Sugar digestion, 146. 
syrup for food, 240. 
Sun, exposure to, 229. 
Super manipulation, 289, 314. 
for extracted-honey, 289. 
removal, 316. 
types, 309. 
Supplies, 432. 
Surplus, sources, 359. 
Swamp sources, advantages, 363. 
Swarm activity, 72. 
box, 422. 
catcher, 66. 
control, 78, 265, 313. 
description of, 63. 
Swarming, 61. 
causes loss, 265. 
fever, 74. 
-out, 80. 
preparations, 62. 
Swarms, artificial, 283. 
on one support, 66. 
Symbols, 439. 
Symptoms, American foul brood, 
398. 
European foul brood, 401. 
sacbrood, 402. 
Syrian bees, 195. 
System essential, 253. 
in extracted-honey, 290. 
Tanks for storage, 299. 
Taste, 174. 
Taxonomy, 37. 
Temperature, effect on brood-rear¬ 
ing, 87. 
in winter cellar, 347, 353. 
of colony, 59, 60. 
responses in winter, 89, 90. 
sense, 176. 
Temperature variation within hive, 
61. 
Term of life of worker, 44. 
Testes, 184. 
Thorax, 139. 
not typical, 99. 
origin, 99. 
Time to handle bees, 235. 
Tongue, 138. 
Touch, 174. 
Townsend 291. 
Tracheal system, 152. 
Transferring colonies, 245. 
larvas, 422. 
Transition cells, 48. 
Treatment, European foul brood, 
408. 
of brood diseases, 403. 
Tropics, gathering by bees in, 84. 
T-super, 309. 
Types of bees in colony, 39. 
Unbalanced condition of swarming 
colonies, 280. 
Uncapping, 293. 
cans, 294. 
United States, statistics of bee¬ 
keeping in, 4. 
Uniting, 243. 
Uses of honey, 432. 
of wax, 340. 
Van Deuscn hive clamp, 33. 
Variation in honey-flows, 83. 
in nectar, 361. 
in regions, 54. 
in secretion, 362. 
in swarming, 266. 
in value of plants, 206. 
of colonies in swarming, 267. 
within a region, 212. 
Veil, 30. 
Ventilation in winter, 346. 
of cellar, 353. 
Ventrieulus, 112. 
Walking, 157. 
Water collection, 85, 126. 
need of, 258. 
source in winter, 345. 
Wax building, 68. 
