400 
INDEX, 
done, remove swarms to proper stands, 
138; danger of delaying, 138; what to 
do if no hive is ready, 139. 
Holbrook, Hon. F., on cultivation of 
white clover, 294. 
Home, should be made attractive, 220. 
Honey, 285-292; its elements, 70; quan¬ 
tity consumed in secreting wax, 71, 
170; gathered by day, 72; sometimes 
gathered by moonlight, 73 (note); 
honey-gathering and comb-building 
simultaneous, 73; surplus, incompati¬ 
ble with rapid increase of colonies, 
170; how to secure the largest yield 
of, 180; more abundant fifty years ago 
than now, 230; reasons assigned for 
the deficiency, 237 ; foreign, supposed 
cause of foul-brood, 256, 258; from 
foul-brood colonies, infectious, 250 
(note 2); infected, how purified, 257 ; 
West India, used for bee-feed, 266 
(note), 270; and sugar (S)iolz’ compo¬ 
sition), 274; quantity of, necessary for 
wintering stocks, 274; poor, not con¬ 
vertible into good, 275; not a secre¬ 
tion o! the bee, 276 (and noto 2); re¬ 
tains the flavor of the blossoms from 
whence it- is taken, 275; evaporation 
produces the principal changes In, 
270 (and noto 1); “making over” 
honey not profitable, 276; recipe for 
artificial, 270 (note); a vegetable pro¬ 
duct, 285; qualities of, vary, 287; 
hurtful qualities cured by boiling, 
287 (and note) ; should not be exposed 
to low temperature, 287 ; old, more 
wholesome than new, 287; virtues as¬ 
cribed to it by old writers, 287 (note); 
to drain from the comb, 288, 300; to 
make liquid when candied, 288; cau¬ 
tion as to West India, 288 (note); of 
Ilymettus, 293 (note); yield of, af¬ 
fected by soil, 294 (note); from the 
raspberry, delicious, 290; yield of, by 
plants, uncertain, 296 (note 2); large 
amount gathered in a day, 303; on 
the hands, protects them against bee¬ 
stings, 317; bees eat less in Winter, 
when kept quiet, 335, 318, 358 ; how to 
get in centre of hive, for Winter, 330; 
candied, bees need water to dissolve, 
342-344. 
Honey-bag, worker’s, 56(P1. XVII., Fig. 
54). 
Honey-bees, see Bees. 
Honey-board, spare, holes In, left open 
in Winter, 338; sometimes strongly 
glued by bees, 172 (note); care in 
placing necessary, 173. 
Honey-dews, 285; of California, 285 
(noto); when most abundant and 
where found, 280. 
Honey-hornets, Mexican, 58 (note), 87. 
Honey resources, how to increase, 293. 
Honey-suckle, juice of, a remedy for 
bee-stings, 315. 
Iloney, surplus, much, incompatible 
with rapid multiplication of stocks, 
176. 178; best yield of, from undis¬ 
turbed stocks, 180; receptacles for, 
when to admit bees to, 288, 364, how 
secured, 289; quantity from one stock, 
289 (note 2); large boxes more profit¬ 
able than small, for, 28d (and noto 2), 
29(1 (note 1); glass vessels and small 
boxes, for, 290; air-tight boxes, to 
preserve, 290 (note 2); receptacles of, 
how and when to remove them, 291, 
365; boxes for, bees reluctant to fill, 
late in the season, 366. 
Honey-water, objectionable for subdu¬ 
ing bees, 109 (note). 
Hornets, fecundation of, 35; Mexican, 
honey, 58 (note), 87 ; injure fruit, 80; 
should be destroyed in Spring, 87 ; 
torpid in Winter, 109. 
Horses sweaty, very offensive to bees, 
279, 313. 
Horticulturists, honey boos their friends 
85, 87. 
Houses, ventilation of, neglected, 01. 
lluher, Francis, tributo to, 32-34; dis¬ 
covered how queens are impregnated, 
34; that unfecundod queens produce 
only drones, 36; experiments of, to 
test, the secretion of wax, 09; to show 
the use of pollen, 8(1; his discovery of 
ventilation by bees, 88; his suppo¬ 
sition us to development in queen of 
male eggs, 128 (note); bis plan for 
artificial swarming and its objections, 
148; effect of his leaf hive in pacifying 
boos, 168; his mistake as to the cause, 
109; an inconvenience of his hive, 171 
(note); his description of workers, 192 
(note 2); his curious experiments 
showing a distinction among them, 
193 (note); his tribute to Buruens, 
194 (note); his account of the treat¬ 
ment by bees of strange queens, 200; 
his trial of two queens in a hive, 207 
(note); splendid discoveries of, form¬ 
erly ridiculed, 211. 
Humble-bee robbed by honey-bees, 262. 
Hunger impairs fertility of queen-bee, 
223 (note 1). 
Hunt, Rev. T. P., his mode of securing 
swarms, 132. 
Hunter, Dr., discovers pollen in the 
stomach of hoes, 80. 
Hurting bees, important to avoid, 95. 
llyginus, on feeding boos, 207 (note). 
I. 
Impregnation, of queen-bees, 34-43; re¬ 
tarded, efl'eet of, 36; remarkable law 
of, in aphides, 42; takes place in the 
air, 50, 320; act of, fatal to drone, 125, 
120 (note); Shrimplin’s experiment 
illustrative of, 127. 
