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INDEX, 
sons, 128; sooson of, 128; inconven¬ 
iences of, 139-147; artificial, mode 
of fur common Ilives, 154; best pre¬ 
vented by use of author's hive, 153; 
for tho season, can bo accomplished 
in few days with author’s hive, 173; 
time of natural, easily determined in 
author’s hive, 173 (note); prevented 
by clipping wings of queen, 173, 223; 
prevented by contracting the entrance 
of hive, 174; last plan not thoroughly 
tested, 174 (note 3); frequent, unprof¬ 
itable, 176; best mode of artificial, 
181; how to obtain extra queens in 
natural, 190(uote); interesting auec- 
dote of, 308. 
Swarming, artificial, see Artificial 
Swarming. 
Swarming, natural, see Natural Swarm¬ 
ing. 
Swarming season, commencement and 
duration of, 111, 128. 
Sweaty horses, detested and often killed 
by bees, 313. 
Sydserfi’s calculation of profits of bee 
culture, 146 (note). 
T. 
Table, illustrating the increase of stocks 
by artificial swarming, 185; of form¬ 
ing nuclei, 191. 
“Taking up bees,” facilitated by mov. 
comb hive, 200; suggestions as to 
time of, 306 (note). 
Temperature of hive, rises at time of 
swarming, 130. 
Theories often fail, when put to a prac¬ 
tical test, 175 (note). 
Thistle, Canada, a good bee-plant, 296. 
Thomson, poetical extract from, upon 
killing bees, 239; on bees in linden 
trees, 293. 
Thorley, John, first stupefied bees by 
puff-ball smoke, 210. 
Tidd, M. M., his experiment on a female 
moth, 230 (note 2); notices the differ¬ 
ence between tongue of the male and 
female moth, 230. 
Time of bees, economized in mov. comb 
hive, 95, 96; importance of saving, 
305. 
Timid persons may safely remove sur¬ 
plus honey, 289-291; should use bee- 
dress while hiving bees, 132, 154; 
often stung while other persons sel¬ 
dom are, 108; some should not at¬ 
tempt to rear bees, 209. 
Toads, cat, bees, 254. 
Tobacco, should not be used for subdu¬ 
ing bees, 169. 
fop-boxes, for surplus honey, should 
be used with caution, 830 (note). 
Transferring bees from common to mov. 
comb hive, 282-284; mode of, 282; liest 
time for, 283; results of, 284. 
Transportation of bees, easy in mov. 
comb hive,281. 
Traps for moths, usually worthless, 244. 
Trees, combs built on, by hoes, 118; 
apiaries should be near, 131; substi¬ 
tute for, 131; limbs of, need not bo 
cut, in hiving bees, 133; shade of, 
agreeable to boes, 280; honey-pro¬ 
ducing, 292. 
Tulip (poplar, or white wood), tree 
yields great quantities of honey, 292. 
U. 
Union of colonies, facilitated by giving 
thorn the same smell, 203; mode o^ 
203, 204; for wintering, 336. 
Unbelief in revelation not prompted by 
true philosophy, 62. 
Uncleanly persons disagreeable to boes, 
313. 
y. 
Varnish, used by bees in place of propo¬ 
lis, SO. 
Varro, bis remark that bees in large 
hives become dispirited, 208. 
Ventilation, furnished to larva* by shape 
of cells, 75; of the hive, 88-94; pro¬ 
duced by the fanning of bees, 88; 
Huber on, 88; its necessity, 89; re¬ 
marks on, in human dwellings, 91; 
provided for and easily controlled in 
mov. comb hive, 93, 94; artificial, 
must be simple to be useful, 93; 
should be attended to after swarming, 
124; ample, should be given whiio 
bees are storing honey, 288, 366; bow 
to give, in Winter, 338; upward, 
needed iu Winter, 338, 340 (note), 
241, 360. 
Vice, effect of, on man. compared to 
ravages of the moth, 235. 
Virgil, described tho Itulian bee, 318. 
W. 
Wagner, Samuel, letter of, on mov. 
comb liives, 17-18; theory of, on bow 
queen determines sex of egg, 38; his 
account of bees building comb on a 
tree, 118; on tho effect of soil on tho 
quality of honey-yielding plants, 294 
(note); on the Swedish white clover, 
for bees and stock, 295; letter of. on 
over-stocking, 300; letter of, on tho 
Italian bee, 317 ; extracts from, on 
preserving the purity of the Italian 
bee, 323 (notes); states a remarkable 
fact concerning hybrid boos, 324 (note 
