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INDEX. 
Aristotle, noticed similarity of drone 
and worker-eggs, 42; observed that 
bees collect pollen from one kind of 
flower at u time, 83; observation of, 
concerning the flight and feeding of 
drones, 224 (note); on the difficulties 
which perplex the Apiarian, 276 
(note); described the Italian bee, 318. 
Artificial honey, recipe for, 276 (note). 
Artificial rearing of queens, 188; the 
process to be performed late in the 
day, 188 ; honey and water to bo sup¬ 
plied to bees in, 189; when to confine 
bees in, 189. 
Artificial swarming, 143,211; not per¬ 
formed by Columella, 147 (note); ill 
success of ancient method of, 148; 
Huber’s plan of, objectionable, 1 18 ; by 
dividing hives, unsatisfactory, 149; by 
removing full hives and substituting 
empty ones, worse, 150, 151; bv self- 
colonizing hives, ineffectual,* 151; 
causes of tailurc of, 152; has received 
great attention from author, 153; 
mode of, adapted to commou hives, 
154; cautious handling of combs in, 
needful* 155 (and note); how to pre¬ 
vent bees in, from returning to old 
stand, 106, 157 ; not to be performed 
till drones appear, 158 ; tokens of the 
absence or presence of the queen in, 
158; how to proceed if the queen is 
absent, 159 ; if done in morning or late 
in afternoon, how to proceed to secure 
bees for the old stock, 160 ; proportion 
of bees necessary for old stocks in, 
160; new and decoy-hive should re¬ 
semble that of parent stock, or adjoin¬ 
ing hives be covered, 160; mode of, by 
exchanging hives, 160; by juxtaposi¬ 
tion, 161; by confining bees in parent 
stock, 161; preferable plan when to be 
done on a large scale, 162 ; rapidity of 
this plan, 162 (note); its advantages, 
163; Dr. Dbnhoff’s method of, 163; 
how to attach bees to new places, in, 
163 (note); difficult for persons igno¬ 
rant of the laws which control the 
breeding of bees, 164; easily per¬ 
formed with mov. comb hive, 164; 
mode of performing it, 105; queen to 
be sought for, 166; supply of sealed 
queens provided for, 166; great care 
necessary in transferring sealed 
queens, 167 ; should not be attempted 
in cool weather, or when dark, 167; 
early morning best time for, 167; 
litthMhingor attending, 167, 168; per¬ 
fectly safe even at mid-day, 168 ; sugar- 
water often better than smoke, useful 
in. 168; honey-water objectionable, 
169 (note); caution in, eiyoined, 170 ; 
how to apply sugar-water in, 170; how 
to remove frames in, 170; rapidly 
performed, 173 ; best mode of, 180,181; 
supply of queens to mother-stocks, in, 
| 182; obviates the risk of after-swarm¬ 
ing, 184; capable of safe expansion, 
185; how to double stocks by, 185; 
Dzierzon’s mode of, 186; author’s mode 
of, for single apiaries, 186; mode of, 
resembling natural swarming, 186; 
mode of, by reversing position of hives, 
187 ; how to provide a full supply of 
queens for, 188; nucleus for rearing 
queens for, 189; rapid increase of 
stocks by, 190 ; how to induce bees, 
in, to rear queens on convenient parts 
of the comb, 191; how to secure ad¬ 
hering bees for the nuclei in, 192 (and 
note 2); queens, in, made to supply 
several stocks with eggs, 193; moth¬ 
er-stocks, in, should be kept strong, 
199; most successful when forage is 
abundant, 199; hazardous in a crowd¬ 
ed apiary, 200; how to supply stocks, 
in, with stranger-queens, 2tJ0; queen- 
cage for, 201; union of bees of differ¬ 
ent stocks in, 203; practiced in an¬ 
cient times, 210. 
Artificial swarms, where should bo put, 
158; how to know whether they have 
a queen, 158; will accept a strange 
queen, 159 (note); cautions to be ob¬ 
served in locating, 159; how to make, 
by slightly changing position of par¬ 
ent stock, 161; liow to form several 
with one natural swarm, 163; quickly 
made in mov. comb hive, 164, 173; 
when to force, in cases of retarded 
swarming, 174; cannot be formed by 
merely transferring combs and bees 
into an empty hivo, 175; caution 
against too rapid multiplication of, 
175 (note); the piling mode of form¬ 
ing, its advantages, 188; not to be in¬ 
creased so as to reduce the strength 
of the mother-stock, 199; attempts a* 
rapid increase of, in vicinity of sugar- 
houses, &c., 199; difficult to form 
when forage is scarce, 199. 
Asters, furnish valuable pasturage for 
bees, 298. 
Attica, its yield of wax and honey, 304. 
Austria, value of its honey crop, 304. 
Axioms, bee-keeper’s, 369. 
B. 
Baldenstein, Capt., on Italian bee, 318; 
ill success of, in propagating puro 
breed, 319. 
Bar-hives, ancient, 210 (note); author’s 
experiments with, 14. 
Basket, used as a hivor, 133. 
Bass-wood, see Linden. 
Bears, destroyers of bees, 254. 
Bee-bob, to attract swarms, 132. 
Bee-bread, see Pollen. 
Bee-dress, use of, recommended, 132, 
209, 316. 
