INDEX 
on Cellar Floor. 
on Outside of Winter Cluster. 
on Shares ....115, 
Resting Periods of. 
See Italian Bees. 
Shutting in a Hive During Winter in 
Cellar . 
Smothered hy Closed Entrance. 
Solitary . 
Solitary, Collecting Pollen. 
Sometimes a Nuisance in Fruit Drying. . 
Stingless .116- 
Strain of, Relation to Swarming. 
Strains of, Immune to Disease. 
Surpass All Other Insects as Pollinators. 
Syrians . 
That Sting Worst. 
Their Love of Home. 
Three Kinds of in a Hive. 
Tiny East Indian . 
to Enter Supers, Comb Honey.239, 
Tongue Illustrated . 
Too Many in a Locality. See Overstocking. 
Tunisians . 
Two Kinds . 
Unwarranted Fear of Them. 
versus Birds .113- 
versus Fruit-grower . 
When Become Angry. 
When Cross.47, 
When Preparing to Swarm. 
When Sting Remarkably. 
When to Put in and Take Out of Cellars 
Wild by Nature, in Law. 
Wild, Where Located . 
Wintering in a Warm Room. 
Worker .. 
Worker in Two Divisions. 
Worker, Their Duties . 
Young, after Emerging . 
Young, Their Work .147, 
Beekeeper Farmer. See Farmer Beekeeper. 
Beekeepers, Number of, in United States . . . . 
Room for More in United States. 
Specialist . 
Beekeeping, a Recreation for Women. 
as an Exclusive Business.769, 
as a Sole Means of Livelihood.769, 
as a Vocation and as an Avocation. .104, 
Bird’s-eye View of. 
for Pleasure .84-86, 
for Professional Men . 
for Women . ....103- 
in Cities and Towns.84- 
in Cities and Towns Profitable. 
in Olden Days. 
in Suburban Towns and Cities. . . . 777, 
Industry Pushed Forward by the Great 
War . 
Industry, Scope and Character of. 
Migratory. See Migratory Beekeeping. 
Not Hazardous nor Dangerous.. 
Old Way of. 
on Farms . 
on Shares. See Bees on Shares. 
Pleasurable Pastime..'. 
Restful Hobby . 
Territory in the U. S. 568- 
Beeswax, Furniture Polishes from. 
in Shoe Polishes. 
in the Arts. 
Beginning with Bees.118- 
Beginning Small with Bees. 
Behavior of Bees.92- 
of Bees in Collecting Pollen. 
of Bees in Swarming. 
of the Larval Bee.. 
Bellflower. See Campanilla, 
943 
Bell, Ringing to Stop Swarming. 15 
Bell, Ringing When Can is Full. 341 
Bicycle for Bringing Back Swarms. 798 
Bicycle Pants-guards, Holding Trousers when 
Among the Bees. 860 
Bingham Smoker . 755 
Bird’s-eye View of Beekeeping. 5 
Birds, Not Bees, Attacking Fruit.113, 114 
Biting of Stingless Bees. 118 
Black Bees ■. 713 
Black Brood. See Foul Brood. 
Black Gum . 126 
Black Sage . 735 
Bokhara. See Sweet Clover. 
Boomhower Knife-scraping Table. 246 
Borage .•.126, 127 
Borrowing . 732 
Bottling Honey.127- 136 
Honey by the Carload.132- 135 
on a Large Scale.131-135 
on a Small Scale. 128 
Bottom-board, Bee-space . 106 
Box Hives .6, 7, 136- 139 
How to Move in Sacks. 841 
Brace-combs. See Thick-top Frames under 
Frames. 
Brace-combs and Burr-combs Avoided by 
Thick-top Frames . 380 
Breeding, Cost of in Honey. 145 
Heavy on Stores. 143 
in a Story and a Half. 236 
in Two Stories. 449 
Queens, Requirements for. 139 
Queens, Where to Get. 140 
Stimulated by Giving a Super of Honey. 169 
Stock .139, 140 
Stock to Reduce Swarming. 808 
Brood and Brood-rearing.140, 149 
and its Relation to Swarming.794, 805 
Capped Over, What Happens. 270 
Chambers Double, for Swarm Control.808, 809 
Cost of in Honey. 145 
Daily Growth of . 146 
Dead, Determined at Entrance. 273 
Dead, from Drone-laying Queens. 378 
Development of.145- 147 
Disease. See Foul Brood. 
Diseases, Sequence of . 374 
Drone . 144 
Emerging, for Weak Colonies. 170 
Frames .8, 9 
How it Should be Placed During Extract¬ 
ing . 320 
How to Distinguish from Capped Honey. 140 
Indication of Colony.140, 141, 143 
Manipulation to Control Swarming.. 808, 809 
Nest, Crowded, Cause of Swarming. 807 
Nest Well Filled with Brood for Comb 
Honey .. . . 235 
Placing Above in Extracting. 319 
Rearing, Decreasing in the Fall. 141 
Rearing During Midwinter. 144 
Rearing, Importance of Plenty of Stores. 169 
Rearing in the South. 144 
Rearing in the Spring. 166 
Rearing in Two Stories. 449 
Rearing in Two Stories for Comb Hon¬ 
ey .235, 236 
Rearing, Pollen Necessary for.169, 663 
Rearing Slowing Down after the Honey 
Flow . 897 
Rearing Stimulated by Shallow Extract- 
ing-supers . 236 
Rearing Temperature . 78 
Rearing, to Insure a Crop.166, 167 
Rearing Too Early . 143 
Rearing, Water Necessary-for. 868 
Jtemoval for Swarm Control. 812 
924 
928 
116 
94 
924 
861 
5 
659 
562 
118 
808 
277 
680 
715 
785 
13 
5 
716 
241 
39 
715 
5 
575 
115 
114 
47 
48 
272 
48 
922 
557 
97 
77 
5 
6 
5 
A47 
148 
1 
3 
1 
104 
770 
770 
105 
5 
104 
84 
105 
87 
87 
1 
778 
2 
1 
575 
7 
348 
87 
86 
571 
870 
870 
870 
126 
119 
97 
659 
96 
93 
