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INDEX. 
Lombard, his interesting anecdote of 
swarming, 3(>8. 
Longfellow, II. W., lii.a Indian warrior’s 
description of the bee. 236. 
Lossofquoen, 213-227; frequent, though 
the queen is usually the last to perish 
in any casualty, 213; when, by old 
age, bees prepare for her successor, 
213; occurs oftenest when queen 
leaves hive for impregnation, 213, 214; 
how occasioned, by queeus mistaking 
their hives, 214, 215; bees, like hens 
in this respect, 215; Judge Fishback’s 
preventive of, 210; author’s prevent¬ 
ive, 217; effect of, on stocks, 217; 
sometimes not discovered by bees for 
some time, 218 (ami note); excitement 
in hive when discovered, 218; will not 
cause bees to abandon the hive if they 
are supplied with brood-comb, 218; 
nucleus system will remedy it, 219; 
indications of, 219; the most common 
cause of destruction of stocks by bee- 
moth, 219. 
Lunenburg, number of colonies of bees 
in, 302; bees of, more than pay all the 
tuxes, 302. 
M. 
Mahan, P. J., on causing bees to adhere 
to new locations, 1G3 (note); interest¬ 
ing observations of, 219 (note); his 
discovery that drones leave their 
hives with honey and return without 
any, 224; on the odor of the queen, 
226 (note 2). 
Maple-tree a source of honey, 292. 
Marahli, anecdote from, of bees and a 
snail, 78. 
Materials for hives, 331. 
Meal, a substitute for pollen, 84, 219. 
Medicine, poison of bee, used for, 315 
(note). 
Mice, ravages of, and protection against, 
252. 
Miller, see Bee-moth. 
Mills, John, on marking hives with dif¬ 
ferent colors, 216 (note). 
Mixing of bees, of different colonies, 
2(»3 ; precautions concerning, 203. 
Months of the year, direction for treat¬ 
ing bees in, 362-369. 
Moonlight, bees sometimes gathor honey 
by, 73 (note). 
More, Sir J., on the sovereign virtues 
of honey, 287 (note). 
Moth, see Bee-moth. 
Moth, death-head, 240 (note). 
Moth, largo honey-eating, from Ohio, 
2-11 (note). 
Mothers, unkind treatment of, reproved 
by bees, 312. 
Mother-stock, in forced swarming, 
easily supplied with fertile queen, 
182; oxposed to perish without a 
prompt supply of queen, and by over- 
swarming, if left to supply itself, 182; 
also to be robbed, 182; advantage of 
supplying with fertile queen, 183. 
Moth-proof hives a delusion, 228, 238, 
247. 
Moths, honey-eating, ravages of, 240 
(and note). 
Motions, in operating on hives should 
be deliberate, 170. 
Movable-comb hive, invention of, 13-23; 
superiority to Dzierzon’s, 16, 18; en¬ 
ables each bee-keeper to observe for 
himself, 23, 164; admits of easy re¬ 
moval of old comb, 60; bees in it easily 
supplied with empty comb, 71; its fa¬ 
cilities for ventilation, 94, 276 (note 
1); size of, adjustable to the wants of 
colony, 96, 829; facilities of, for se¬ 
curing surplus honey, 100, 289, 329; 
advantages of, for preventing after- 
swarming, 124, 140; enables one per¬ 
son to superintend various colonies, 
102, 226; not easily blown down, 103; 
may be made secure against mice, 
103,252, and thieves, 104; durability 
of, 104; cheapness and simplicity of, 
105; some desirables it does not pos¬ 
sess, 105; invention of, result of ex¬ 
perience, 105; perfection disclaimed 
for, 105: merits of, submitted to ex¬ 
perienced bee-keepers, 108; desertion 
of, by swarms, easily prevented, 115 ; 
by use of, can employ all good worker 
comb, 130 ; furnishes storage-room for 
non-swarming bees, 139; importance 
of, in supplying extra queens, 141, 
188; easily cleared of the bee-moth, 
246; best for non-swarming plan, 153; 
enables the apiarian to learn the laws 
regulating the internal economy of 
hoes, 164; enables artificial swarming 
to he quickly performed, 164; advan¬ 
tages of movable top of, 168 ; affords 
facilities for supply of fertile quoons 
to mother-stocks, in forced swarming, 
182, 192; danger of being stung, di¬ 
minished by use of, 209; the greatest 
obstacle to its 6poody introduction, 
209; the author sanguine of its exten¬ 
sive use by skilful bee-keepers, 211; 
should he thoroughly examined in 
Spring, 221; durable and cheap, if 
properly taken care of, 221; advan¬ 
tages of readily perceived by intelli¬ 
gent bee-keepers, 226; adaptation of, 
to protect stocks from the moth, 249; 
enables the apiarian to know the 
amount of honey stocks contain, 275 
(note); how prepared for transporting 
bees, 2H1; to transfer into, from com¬ 
mon hive, 283; designed to economize 
the labor of beos, 305; experiments 
concerning tho size of, 330 (note 3); 
suggestions as to making, 332; ob- 
