INDEX. 
403 
serving, 332; how to get honey in 
centre of, for Winter, 336; how to 
nitiko Winter passages in combs of, 
337 (and note 1); how to ventilate, in 
Winter, 338; bills of stock, for mak¬ 
ing, 371. 
Movable entrance blocks, see Blocks, 
entranco regulating. 
Movable bottom-boards,dangerous, 231. 
Movable stands for hives, 279. 
Moving stocks, 281. 
Munn, W. A., his “ bar and frame hive,” 
209 (note). 
Musk, used to stop robbing, 265 (note). 
N. 
Narcotics, in managing bees, worse than 
useless, 211. 
Natural swarmingnnd hivingofswarms, 
109-142; guards against extinction of 
bees, 109; not unnatural, 111; time 
of. 111; seldom occurs in northern 
climates, when hives are not well 
filled with comb, 111 (note); signs of, 
111; only in fair weather, 112; time 
of day of, 112; preparation of bees 
for, 112; queen often lost in, 113} 
ringing of bells and tanging, useless, 
113; how to stop a fugitive swarm, 
114; after, ventilation should be regu¬ 
lated, 124; hiving should be done in 
shade, or hive bo covered, 130; should 
be promptly attended to after swarm 
settles, 132; process of, 133; basket 
for, 133; sheet for, 133; how arranged, 
133; howto expedite, if bees are dila¬ 
tory, 133, 134; must be repeated if 
queen not secured, 134; small limbs 
cut with pruning shears in, 134 ; when 
swarm out of reach, how to secure, 
134; when in difficult places, or two 
swarms cluster together, 135; how to 
secure queen, 136; old-fashioned way, 
objectionable, 136; more than one 
swarm in a hive, 137; to prevent 
swarms uniting while hiving, 138; 
swarms, as soon as hived, should bo 
removed to their stands, 138; an ex¬ 
pedient, if no hive bo ready, 139; sug¬ 
gestions for making more* profitable, 
139-142; excessive, prevented by use 
of mov. comb hive, 140; affords no fa¬ 
cilities for strengthening late nnd 
feeble stocks, 140; objections to, 139- 
147; uncertainty of, 147; why some 
stocks refuse to swarm, 147. 
“New England Farmer,” extract from, 
describing a combat of queens, 205. 
Night-work, on bees, hazardous, 167. 
Non-swarmor, author’s,prevents swarm¬ 
ing, 174; excludes drones, 228; facili¬ 
ties it offers to preserve pure the 
Italian bee, 326 ; wood-cut of, 1*1. II., 
Fig. 5. 
Non-swarming colonies, may lose their 
queens, or queens becomo unfertile, 
in common hive, 153; quoens may bo 
supplied to, in mov. comb hive, 153. 
Non-swarming hive, advocated by many, 
154; objections to, 153; mov. comb 
hive best for, 153. 
Nuclei, what they are, and how to form 
them, 189; to obtain adhering bees 
for, 192 (and note); must not be al¬ 
lowed to get too much reduced, 197; 
always furnish plenty of queens, 219. 
Nutt, his list of bee tlowers, 298. 
Nymph, beU, see Pupa. 
0 . 
Objections to natural swarming,143-147. 
Observing-hive, mov. comb, 332-334; 
lion. S. Brown’s experiment with, 
205; its facilities for observing the 
internal operations of the bees, 332; 
for wintering, 332(noto); those with 
single frames recommended, 333; 
adapted for the parlor, 333; how to 
stock with bees, 333; source of plea¬ 
sure and instruction, 333; may be 
kept in cities, 333. 
Odor, of queens. 226,266; of drones, 226 
(note 11; "i woi kei 203. 
Odors, unpleasant, offensive to bees, 
313; used to prevent robberies, 265 
(note); excite bees to anger, 313. 
Oettl, remarks of, on over-stocking, 303; 
his golden rule in bee-keeping, 303; 
his statistics of bee-eulturo, 303. 
Old age, signs of in bees, 59. 
Oliver, II. K., observations of, on bee- 
moth, 251. 
Onions, blossoms of, yield much honey. 
293. 
Ovaries of queen-bee, 35 (PI. XVIII.); 
of workers, are undeveloped, 29, 54. 
Over-stocking, 299-307; no danger of, 
299; Wagner’s letter on, 300; Oettl 
and Braun's statistics on, 303. 
Ovum, what nucessary to impregnate 
it, 41. 
P 
Paint, smell of fresh, detested by bees, 
129; if fresh he used, it should con¬ 
tain no white lead, and be made to dry 
quickly, 129; recipe for, preferable to 
oil paint, 129; color of, for hives, 368. 
Pasturage for bees, 292; effect, of, on 
removal of colonies, 157; honey- 
yielding trees and plants, 292-299; 
gardens too limited for, 297 ; catalogue 
of bee-plants, 298; range of, 365. 
Patent hives, deceptions in vending, 01 
(note), 106, 146 (note); have greatly 
multiplied tho bee-moth, 237; and 
