INDEX 
955 
Fertilization of .75, 
for Breeding .139, 
for Breeding, Value of. 
foT Breeding Purposes, How to Select.. 
for Breeding, Where to Get. 
Good, Importance of. 
How They Lay Two Kinds of Eggs. 
How They Receive Their Food. 
How to Secure' Pure Mating. 
in After-swarming . 
Mating Artificially . 
Mating in a Greenhouse. 
Mating on Deserts. 
Most Important Personages. 
on Cake of Ice. 
Piping of . 
Plurality in After-swarming. 
Plurality of, in Swarming. 
Plurality of, Not Tolerated in Colony. . . 
Rivalry of . 
Royal Jelly for Baby. 
Shifting, in Swarm Control. 
Undersized or Imperfectly Developed... 
Vagaries of . 
Value of and How to Determine. 
When Take Wedding Flight. 
When They Will be Accepted in a Colony 
Young, How They Destroy Cells. 
Young or Old, Cause of Swarming. 
Quinby and Box Hives. 
Believer in Populous Colonies. 
Inventor of the Bee-smoker. 
Life of.709- 
Successful in Management of Box Hives 
in Early Days. 
Quinby’s Benevolent Spirit Toward Others.. 
Books . 
Early Shipment of Honey to New York. . 
Invention of the Quinby Hive and Closed- 
end Frame . 
R 
Rabbitbrush . 
Races of Bees.713- 
Albinos, Italian . 
Banat . 
Black or German Bees. 
Carniolans . 
Caucasians . 
Eastern . 
East Indian . 
Egyptians . 
Giant Bees of India. 
Holy Lands and Syrians. 
Tiny East Indian Honeybee. 
Tunisians . 
Rain During Fruit Bloom Destructive to Bees 
and Bloom .387, 
Raspberry, Distribution of.717, 
Raspberry, Preferring Northern Woodlands.. 
Rats Feeding on Honey. 
Rats, How to Destroy. 
Recipes for Honey Cooking.473- 
Record-keeping of Hives.719- 
on Hive . 
on Wood Tablets . 
with Book . f . 
with Card Indexes . 
with Loose-leaf Book. 
with Slate . 
Red Clover Affected by Moisture. 
and Bumblebees. 
Dependent upon Bees. 
Refrigerator Cars for Shipping Bees. 
Remedial Measures for Swarm Control. See 
Swarming, Prevention of. 
Reproductive Organs of Drone. 
Reproductive System of Queen.45, 
Reproduction, Sexual . 673 
Reproduction, Vegetative . 672 
Requeening during Swarming.816, 817 
Resting Periods of Bees. 94 
Reversible Frames.722, 723 
Reversing Automatically. 544 
Defined . 722 
Theory of. 722 
Rheumatism and Bee-stings . 786 
Ripening of Honey.94, 95 
Roadside Selling of Honey. 592 
Robbed and Robbing Colonies Exchanging 
Places .. 730 
Robber Cages .729, 730 
Robbers, How to Know. 727 
Robbing . 723- 733 
Caution to Beginners . 732 
Confused with Playflights. 656 
Defined . 723 
Habit When Once Formed. 727 
How Started . 47 
How to Stop.728- 730 
if Not Stopped. 732 
of Nuclei or Weak Colonies. 727 
Passion for . 723 
Tendency Overcome by Outdoor Feeding. 731 
Use of Small Wire Cage to Set Over Col¬ 
ony . 729 
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. 733 
Rolls for Making Comb Foundation.203, 204 
Root Granulated Honey. 435 
Smoker . 755, 756 
Uncapping-can . 326 
Root’s Personal Recollections of Langstroth.. 
Roping of Foul Brood, American. 368 
Royal Jelly for Baby Queens. 699 
Royal Palm . 651 
Running on Swarm Control. 320 
S 
Sacbrood .376, 377 
Cause of . 377 
See Foul Brood. 
Sacking Bees for Moving. 621 
Sage .734- 738 
Different Varieties of .734- 736 
Honey, Quality of . 737 
Important Honey Plant in California .... 734 
Langstroth’s Description of the Honey.. 738 
Three Species Most Valuable. 734 
Destroyed by Stockmen. 737 
Distribution of, in California. 737 
Other Species of. 738 
Sainfoin . 738 
Sales of Honey, How May be Boosted. 592 
Sams, C. L. 138 
Scale Hive . 739 
at Out-apiary . 646 
Importance of . 739 
Scholz Candy . 178 
Sealed Brood. See Brood and Brood-rearing. 
Scouts Preceding Swarms. See Absconding 
Swarms; also Swarming. 
Second Swarm. See After-swarming. 
Section Holders for Sections. 230 
Honey. See Comb Honey. 
Scraping . 245 
Sections and Separators. 9 
Bait . 239 
Bees Refusing to Enter.239, 240 
Cartons for . 228 
Devices for Holding.229- 232 
Glassed . 228 
Made of Basswood . 91 
Plain and Beeway .231, 332 
See Comb Honey. Appliances for; and 
Hives. 
76 
140 
140 
139 
140 
139 
705 
96 
526 
19 
76 
76 
76 
697 
927 
793 
794 
19 
531 
700 
699 
809 
697 
96 
688 
702 
533 
700 
804 
139 
710 
710 
713 
710 
712 
712 
1 
710 
713 
717 
715 
715 
713 
714 
714 
715 
716 
715 
717 
715 
716 
715 
414 
718 
718 
865 
719 
482 
722 
721 
721 
719 
720 
720 
721 
200 
171 
395 
744 
44 
46 
