942 
INDEX 
Rapid Grower . 
Species of . 
Variable Source of Honey. 
Baume Hydrometer .. 
Bee, All Parts of .38, 
Anatomy of .35- 
and Fruit Culture . 
Behavior .92- 
Oellar, Dysentery in. 
Cellars. See Wintering in Cellars. 
Cuckoo . 
Dress or Clothing for Beekeepers... 859, 
Escape, Use of, in Bee-hunting.100- 
Escape Board, How to Put on.244, 
Escapes in Extracting. 
Escapes, Porter . 
Escapes, Taking Off Comb Honey... 243, 
Flowers, More Red and Blue Than Yel¬ 
low or White . 
Gloves .11, 
Glue . 
How It Sucks Up Honey. 
Hunting .97- 
Hunting Box, to Use.. 
Hunting, Climbers for.99, 
Hunting, Defined. 
Hunting, Does It Pay ?. .. 
Hunting, Equipment for.97, 
Hunting, Making Cross-lines. 
Hunting, Special Box for. 
Hunting, When It Can Be Practiced.... 
Moth. See Moth Miller. 
Moth, Destroyed by Burning Sulphur... 
Moth, Destroyed by Carbon Bisulphide.. 
Moth, Not a Serious Pest to Modern Bee¬ 
keepers . 
Moth, Pupa . 
Moth, Troublesome in Some of the South¬ 
ern States among the Box-hive Men.. . 
Moths, Two Species of. 599, 
Paralysis, Bees Immune to. 
Paralysis in Australia. 
Paralysis Symptoms .275, 
Paralysis, Treatment of. 
Sectional View of. 
Shipping Without Combs.746- 
Smoker . 
Smoker and Bee Veil a Protection. 
Smokers as a Means of Control. 
Space . 
Space Above or Below Brood-frame. 
Space and Its Relation to Modern 
Hive .378, 
Space, Discovery of, by Langstroth. . . . 
.378, 457, 
Space, Size of.105, 
Space Under Brood-frame. 
Sting Poison . 
Stings and Rheumatism. 
Temperament, How to Know. 
Territory, Moral Rights of.647, 
Tree, How to Locate.97- 
Trees . 
Trees, Menace to Queen-breeders. 
Veil . . . .'... 
Young, Behavior of.92, 
Beebread . 
Bees Accused of Scattering Blight. 
Age of .20, 
Albinos . 
Alibi for'. 
Alimentary Canal of. 
Amount of Cold They Can Stand. 
Amount of Honey They Can Carry. .886, 
and Farming. See Farmer Beekeeper. 
and Fruit-Growing .106, 
and Honey in Cities and Towns.... 777, 
and Poultry .107, 
and Queens, Early Hours of. 93 
and School-teaching . 106 
and Truck-gardening . 108 
Anger of . 45 
Attacking Fruit . Ill 
Banat . 715 
Beginning with. See Beginning with Bees. 
Behavior of, in Collecting Pollen. 659 
Black or German. 713 
Capable of Standing a Light Freeze for 
Short Time . 914 
Carniolans . 714 
Cliff . 765 
Compound Eye of.347, 348 
Congestion of, Cause of Swarming. . .805, 806 
Congestion of, in Brood-nest. 807 
Cross, To Know. 48 
Cyprians . 715 
Dead, Having Odor of American Foul 
Brood . 378 
Development of. See Development of 
Bees. 
Distance They Fly.361, 362 
Drifting .282, 283 
Drumming While Transferring.842, 843 
Easily Handled When Understood. 575 
Eastern, Cross . 550 
East Indian . 716 
Egyptian . 715 
Exonerated by Jury. 114 
Favorable Time for Handling.783, 784 
Few or Many.682, 683 
Field, How Influence Swarming.... 805, 806 
First Pollen for . 93 
Flying Out on Chilly Days Toward Winter 914 
Gentleness of . 47 
Giant Bees of India. 717 
Good-natured in Swarm. 792 
Holy Land . 715 
How and Where to Buy. 121 
How Made Cross. 47 
How They Can Warm Themselves by 
Exercise . 839 
How They Communicate. 726 
How They Deposit the Nectar.. 94 
How They Do Their Own Ventilating... 862 
How They Find Their Way Back to Hive 655 
How They Ripen Honey . 94 
How They Seem to Work According to a 
Plan . 707 
How to Get Them Off the Combs. 584 
How to Get Them Out of Bee-trees With¬ 
out Mutilating the Tree.100- 102 
How to Get Them Out of Building. .100- 102 
How to Handle, Rules for.783, 784 
in Cities and Towns.84- 87 
in Pound Packages.122- 125 
Intelligence of . 725 
Kept from Time Immemorial. 1 
Larva of .268, 269 
Legs Illustrated . 41 
Legs of . 38 
Like Mankind .48, 723 
Male. See Drones. 
Manipulating .12, 13 
Many Species of . 5 
Misrepresented . 5 
Mouth Parts of. 6 
Nervous System of.36- 45 
Not Always in a Towering Rage. 46 
Not a Nuisance in Themselves.. 108-111, 560 
Not Cause of Fire Blight nor Pear 
Blight .360, 361 
Not Injurious to Sound Fruit.561, 562 
Not True Hibernators.926- 928 
Number of Trips Made in a Day. 887 
Number to a Colony.5, 165, 887 
Number to the Pound.886, 887 
92 
89 
90 
463 
39 
45 
395 
97 
292 
766 
860 
102 
587 
323 
545 
244 
681 
416 
5 
37 
103 
98 
100 
97 
102 
98 
99 
98 
97 
614 
616 
599 
612 
599 
600 
277 
277 
276 
276 
36 
748 
11 
3 
2 
105 
106 
379 
554 
106 
106 
785 
786 
580 
648 
99 
13 
103 
11 
93 
97 
359 
21 
715 
360 
40 
927 
887 
107 
778 
108 
