398 
INDEX, 
4-4; PI. XIII., Fig. 39; degree of heat 
necessury to hatch them, 40; power i 
of queens over their development, 47 ; 
laid ten months in the year, 48, 339 ; 
supernumerary, how disposed of, 48 ; 
ventilation necessary for hatching, 
89 ; of workers transferred to royal 
cells, 219; of bee-moth, 234 (note 2). 
Ehrenfels, profits of his largo apiary, 
300. 
Enemios of hoes, 228-255; moth, 228- 
252; mice, 252; birds, 252; toads, 254; 
hears, 254; ants, 255 ; wasps, spiders, 
Ac., 255; all agreed in fondness for 
honey, 255. 
Energy of bees, instructive, 197. 
Engravings, see wood-cuts. 
Entrance of hives, should not ordinarily 
bo above the level of the bottom- 
board, 98; should bo readily varied 
without perplexing the bees, 9$; a 
small upper one, uses of, 250,388 (and 
note); should bo nearly closed when 
colony is threatened l>v robbers, 264; 
how to regulate in Winter, 338. 
Epitaph on bees killed by sulphur, 239. 
Ether used for stupefying bees, 210. 
Evans, Dr., quotations from poem of, 
on bees, 50, 60 , GJ, 76, 77, 78, 79, 109, 
267, 292. 
Experiments, an interesting one, 67 ; of 
Huber, showing the use of pollen, 80; 
author’s to the same effect, 81; nu¬ 
merous, of author, 179; cautions con¬ 
cerning, to begiuncrs, 179; bee-keep¬ 
ers invited to make, 180; of Huber, 
showing two kinds of workers, 193 
(note}; difficulty of demonstration by, 
193 (note); Dr. Ddnhoff’s, showing 
that young bees are nurses and old 
bees honey-gatherers, 194; of author, 
in wintering bees, 339; of E. T. Stur- 
tevant, 310; of Uerlepscli and Eber- 
hardt, 342; of J. C. Bodwell, 345; of 
Mr. Scholtz, 348; further, needed, in 
wintering bees, 360. 
Examination of combs and bees in hive, 
importance of, in Spring, 221. 
Experience renders bee-keeping profit¬ 
able, 282. 
F. 
Facts, however wonderful, should be 
received, 42. 
Fasces, appearance of, in young and old 
bees, different, 197; healthy bees do 
not discharge, in hive, 347; how to 
make bees in mov. comb hives, safely 
discharge, 361 (and note). 
Faint-heartedness, rebuked, 198. 
Famine causes bees to ubaudou hives, 
116. 
Four, effect of, in taming beos, 27; in 
uniting swurms, 204. 
I Feeble stocks unprofitable, 141,177,269 
I 336. 
Feeder, convenience of, in mov. comb 
hive, 270; construction of, 271; PI. 
XI-., Fig. 26 
Feeding beos, 267-278; few things more 
important in practical bee-keeping, 
267 ; Spring feeding specially neces¬ 
sary, 267 (and note;; caution in, re¬ 
quired, 268; over-feeding, like pam¬ 
pering children, 268 ; to be submitted 
to only in extremities, 268 ; how done 
in common hives, 269; difficult to 
build up small colonies by, 269; equi¬ 
table division of resources in, 270; 
when it should be done for Winter, 
270; what should bo used in, 270; un¬ 
profitable in late Fall stocks, 270 
(note); mode of, by means of a feeder, 
271; water should be supplied, 271, 
312: importance of salt in, 272; sugar- 
candy a good and cheap article for, 
272 (and note), and 273(note); Kloine’s 
mode of using candy. 273, 274; value 
of grape-sugar for, 273; Sholz’ sugar- 
honoy for, 274; granulated sugar for, 
274 (and note); quantity of honey 
needed for, to Winter bees, 274; 
weight of hives, unsafe standard to 
determine amount of honey for, 275 
(note); caution to lie observed in, 277 ; 
should not be too early in the Fall, 
298; cheap honey, to sell again, un¬ 
profitable in, 275. 
Fertility of queens, 32; diminishes with 
age, 141,223; diminished by hunger 
and cold, 223 (note 1). 
Fishback, Judge, his precautions to pre¬ 
vent loss of young queens, 216; his 
experience witli the bee-moth, 240 
(note). 
Flight of bees, its extent, 305; its rapid¬ 
ity, 305 (note 2). 
Flowers for bees, Nutt’s catalogue of, 
298; garden, furnish littlo bee-pasture, 
297. 
Foul-brood, its malignity, 19, 256; dry 
and moist, 256; remedy, 257, 258; a 
disease exclusively of the larva?, 259; 
supposed cause, 256 (note), 259 ; liable 
to appear the second time, 259. 
Forcing-box, its size and use, 154, 165. 
Frames, movable, invented by author, 
15; how they must bo made to bo 
lifted out of hive, 150,171, 209 (note); 
process of removing from the hivo, 
171, 370(PI. XXIV.); with comb used 
for patterns, 208; effect on boo cul¬ 
ture, 211 (note); a protection against 
the ravages of the moth, 239, 241 ; 
render the cleaning of hivo easy, 243; 
used by Uerlepscli, 321 (note 2); ap¬ 
proved of by Siebold, 321 (note 2) ; not 
well adapted to tall hives, 330. 
Friesland, East, its productiveness in 
honey, 304. 
