956 
INDEX 
Tall versus Square.227, 228 
Unfinished, What to Do with. 243 
When to Put on. 234 
Sectional Honey Box, Development of. 545 
Seeding Alfalfa .30, 31 
Self-spacing Devices, Various Styles of.. 384, 385 
Self-spacing Frames, Advantages of. 386 
Frames. See Frames, Self-spacing, and 
Hives. 
Hoffman .383, 384 
Selling Honey in a Retail Way. 591, 592 
Honey in Connection with Live-bee Dem¬ 
onstrations .501-503, 592, 633 
Honey. See Bottling Honey, Extracted 
Honey, Comb Honey, Marketing Hon¬ 
ey, Shipping Cases and Specialty in 
Bees. 
Honey Thru the Groceries. 593 
Honey to Reliable Concerns with a Rat¬ 
ing Important . 591 
Separators for Comb Honey. 9 
for Sections .230, 231 
See Comb Honey, Appliances for. 
Sex, Origin of, in Plants. 667 
Sexual Maturity of Drones. 284 
Shade and its Influence on Swarming. 811 
for Apiaries . 59- 61 
for Hives. See Apiary. 
for Swarm Control. 811 
Shaken Swarms . 80 
Shaking Treatment for American Foul Brood 367 
Shallow Extracting-supers for Stimulative 
Brood-rearing . 236 
Shallow Supers of Honey for Wintering. 926 
Shipments of Bees in Carlots, How to Pre¬ 
pare .741- 743 
Shipping Bees .740- 749 
Bees by Boat. 745 
Bees in Carlots from North to South... 740 
Bees in Carlots, Importance of Spraying 
Bees . 743 
Bees in Refrigerator Cars. 744 
Bees Long Distance by Express.623, 624 
Bees without Combs.746- 748 
Cases for Comb Honey.749- 753 
Cases, Home-made, Objections to. 751 
Cases Made of Corrugated Paper. 751 
Cases, Poorly Designed. 749 
Cases with Corrugated Paper in Bottom. 750 
Comb Honey in Carlots . 752 
Comb Ploney in Carlots, Importance of 
Bracing Well . 753 
Shook Swarms Swarming. 80 
Shook Swarming. See Artificial Swarming. 
Shrubbery in Apiaries.49, 56, 58 
Simmins’ Fasting Method of Introducing.... 541 
Simplicity Feeder . 351 
Skep .753, 754 
Skep. See Hives, Evolution of. 
Skunks, Enemies of Bees. 297 
Sladen on Bumblebees. 177 
Smith’s Introducing Cage.537, 538 
Smoke and Smokers.754- 760 
Using Too Much . 759 
the Value of, in Handling Bees. 755 
Abuses of . 757 
Smoker, Bee .•. 11 
First Invented by Quinby. 755 
Fuel for .756, 757 
How to Use.12, 757- 759 
Improved by Bingham and Root. 755 
Invention of . 543 
Soils for Clover. 189 
Soils Made Adapted to Clover. 4 
Solar Wax Extractor.871, 872 
Solitary Bees . 760- 766 
and Flower Pollination. 760 
for Collecting Pollen . 659 
Habits of Nest-building Bees. 763 
Host Bees and Guest Bees. 763 
in Two Groups. 760 
Long-tongued . 762 
Parasitic . 766 
Short-tongued Variety . 760 
Somerford’s Method of Forming Nuclei. 630 
Sourwood .766, 767 
Enormous Yielder under Certain Condi¬ 
tions .-.. 767 
in the South . 767 
Sometimes Confused with Black Gum. ... 767 
Where Found . 766, 767 
Spacing Frames .381, 767, 768 
Space, Bee. See Bee-space. 
Spacing of Combs, Dadant on. 811 
Spanish Needles .768, 769 
in Indiana . 769 
Swamp . 769 
Specialist Beekeepers . 1 
Beekeepers, Where Located. 770 
Beekeeping, Requirements for. 770 
Specialty in Bees.769, 770 
Species of Alfalfa. 21 
of Bees . 5 
of Stingless Bees. 116 
Specific Gravity of Honey. 770 
Spermatozoa of Drones. 45 
Spermatozoa Received at Mating. 703 
Spiders, Enemies of Bees. 298 
Spikeweed . 770 
Spray Pump for Controlling Swarms. 800 
Spraying Bees in Carload Shipments to Keep 
Them Cool . 743 
Destructive to the Brood. See Fruit Blos¬ 
soms. 
for the Codling Moth.390, 391 
Fruit Trees. See Fruit Blossoms. 
Spray Poisoning, Financial Loss to Beekeep¬ 
ers Due to. 389 
Spray Poisoning, Symptoms of. 389 
Spreading Brood . 771 
Danger in . 771 
Largely Abandoned . 771 
When it Can Be Practiced. 771 
Spring Dwindling .771- 773 
Cause of . 772 
Caused Sometimes by Bad Food. 772 
in the North Same as Winter Dwindling 
in California . 772 
Not a Disease. 771 
Reduced by Packing. .. 773 
Remedy for . 7 73 
Sometimes Due to Dysentery. 772 
Spring Management .773- 775 
Closing the Entrances of Dead Colonies. . 774 
Equalizing Colonies . 775 
Importance of Examining Colonies. 773 
Not Necessary if Colony is Well-fed and 
Well-housed . 773 
Use of Paper-wrapped Combs. 774 
Warmly Housing When Taken from the 
Cellar . 774 
Starters versus Full Sheets. 223 
Starved or Neglected Brood. 376 
States of the Whole Country Variously Com¬ 
pared for the Keeping of Bees.568- 571 
States Having Foul Brood Laws. 562 
Statistics Concerning the Bee and Honey 
Business .775- 778 
Steam for Bottling Honey. 132 
Sting. Barbs of . 787 
How It Works into the Flesh. 785 
Illustrated . 42 
Mechanical Construction of.786, 787 
of the Bee.39, 40 
Poison . 785 
Poison, Odor of. 785 
