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INDEX. 
sons, 12S; season of, 128; inconven¬ 
iences of, 189-147; artificial, mode 
of for common hives. 154; best pre¬ 
vented by use of Author's hive, 153; 
for the season, can be accomplished 
in lew 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 (note) ; interesting anec¬ 
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. 
Sydserff’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, 209; 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 sol- 
dom are, 168; some should not at¬ 
tempt to rear bees, 209. 
Toads, eat bees, 254. 
Tobacco, should not be used for subdu¬ 
ing bees, 169. 
Top-boxes, for surplus honey, should 
be used with caution, 330 (note). 
Transferring bees from common to mov. 
comb hive, 282-284; mode of, 282; best 
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 bees, 118; 
apiaries should bo near, 131; substi¬ 
tute for, 131; limbs of, need not be 
cut, in hiving bees, 133; shade of, 
agreeable to bees, 280; honey-pro¬ 
ducing, 292. 
Tulip (poplar, or white wood), tree 
yields great quantities of honey, 292. 
U. 
Union of colonies, facilitated by giving 
them the same smell, 203; mode ot, 
203, 204; for wintering, 336. 
Unbelief in revelation not prompted by 
true philosophy, 52. 
Uncleanly persons disagreeable to boos, 
313. 
V. 
Varnish, used by bees in place of propo¬ 
lis, 80. 
Vnrro, his romark that bees in largo 
hives become dispirited, 208. 
Ventilation, furnished to larvro by shape 
of cells, 75; of the hive, 88-94; pro¬ 
duced l»y the fanning of bees, 88; 
Iluber 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 bo simple to he useful, 93; 
should be attended to after swarming, 
124; ample, should be given while 
bees art* storing honey, 288,366; how 
to give, in Winter, 338; upward, 
needed in Winter, 338, 340 (note), 
241, 360. 
Vice, effect of, on man. compared to 
ravages of the moth, 235. 
Virgil, described the Italian boo, 318. 
W. 
Wagner, Samuel, letter of, on mov. 
comb hives, 17-18; theory of, on how 
queen determines sex of egg, 38; his 
account of bees building comb on a 
tree, 118 ; on the offset of soil on tho 
quality of honey-yielding plants, 294 
(note); on tho Swedish white clover, 
for bees and stock, 295; letter of, on 
over-stocking, 300; letter of, on the 
Italian bee, 317; extracts from, on 
preserving the purity of the Italian 
bee, 323 (notes); states a remarkablo 
fact concerning hybrid beos, 324 (note 
