I K D E X 
A. 
Adobe, for hives, 331 (note 2). 
Advantages required incomplete hives, 
95-108. 
Adventure, amusing, in search of honey, 
864. 
After-swarming, 120; causes and indi¬ 
cations of, 121; easily prevented in 
niov. comb hives, 124, 140; evils of, 
140; author’s mode of obviating evils 
of, before invention of mov. comb 
hive, 140 (note): excessive, exposes 
stock to bee-moth, 243. 
After-swarms, easily strengthened in 
move, comb hives, 140; when to ex¬ 
pert, 122; often issue in bad weather, 
122; often have more than one queen, 
122; seriously reduce strength of par-, 
cut stocks, 124, 140; wise arrange¬ 
ment concerning, 124; easily pre¬ 
vented in mov. comb hive, 124; weak, 
of little value, 140, 141; returning of, 
to parent stock, or doubling, un¬ 
profitable, 140; make few drone-cells 
the first season, 184 (note). 
Age, of bees, 58; queen-bee, 49; of 
workers, proved from Italian bee, 59 
(note); signs of old, 69; of colonies, 
59; of queens, designated by the clip¬ 
pings of their wings, 223. 
Air, necessary for bees, 88; bees need in 
Winter, 89, 338; pure, necessary for 
eggs, brood, and bees, 89; pure, neces¬ 
sary for health of man, 91; abundance 
of, supplied by mov. comb hive, 94; 
new swarms require more than old, 
281; cold, alarms bees, 311 (note); 
how to give in Winter, to mov. comb 
hives, 338. 
Air-tight stoves, deficient in ventila¬ 
tion, 92. 
Alighting-board, should shelter from 
wind and wet, 103; improved by at¬ 
taching muslin, 279 (uote): PI. V., 
Figs. 16, 17. 
Alsike, or Swedish white clover, 294; 
value of, for bees and stock, 296. 
American women, their sufferings from 
bad ventilation. 92. 
Analysis of royal jelly, 04. 
Anger of bees, 308-314; difficult to re¬ 
press, when once aroused, 170; excited 
by the human hroath, quick motions, 
or jarring, 170; and sometimes by 
smoke, 168 (note); should not bo vio¬ 
lently repelled, 170; occasioned by 
disease, 256 (note); never necessary 
to provoke a colony to, 309; when 
provoked to, terribly vindictive, 310; 
of dyspeptic bees, troublesome, 310; 
bee-lmt, a protection from, 310; But¬ 
ler’s directions how to prevent the 
rising of, 311; warm breath provokes, 
311 (note 2); when excited, how to 
act, 311 ; never excited away from 
home, 312; excited by disagreeable 
odors, and uncleanly persons, 313; 
aroused by a smell of the bee-poison, 
314; and by rough and hairy sub¬ 
stances, 317. 
Ants, white, their fecundity, 32; some¬ 
times injure bees, 255; small, harm¬ 
less, 255 (note); extravagantly fond 
of honey, 287. 
Aphides, singular mode of propagation 
of, 42; description of, 285; cause of 
honey-dew, 285. 
Apiarians, see Bee-keepers. 
Apiaries, must bo closely watched in 
swarming-seasou, 143; large, rendered 
difficult by natural swarming, 145; 
danger of crowded, 214; stocking, Ac., 
279-284; in establishing, a knowledge 
of the honey resources of the locality 
important, 279 (and note 1); should he 
protected from high winds, and from 
cattle, and sweaty horses, 279 (note 
2); should be in sight of occupied 
rooms, 279; proper exposure for, 279; 
covered, objectionable, 280; shaded, 
agreeable to bees, 280; location of, 
how to change, 280; procuring bees 
for, 280; to secure bees in their hives, 
for removal to, 281; precautions to bo 
observed in moving hives to, 281; 
transferring bees from common to 
mov. comb hive, for, 282; large, in 
Europe, 300; should be fenced against 
cattle and horses, 313. 
Apple-tree yields much honey. 292. 
Apricot-tree, honey-yielding, 292. 
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