INDEX 
957 
Stinging, Cause of .47- 
Stinging of Horses and Cattle.109- 
Stingless Bees .116- 
How They Bite. 
Where Found .. 
Stings .778- 
and Rheumatism . 
as a Remedial Agent. 
Elimination of, by Modern Appliances. . 
Fear of, Keeping Persons Out of Bee¬ 
keeping . 
Few, Received by the Practical Beekeeper 
' Hollow Construction of. 
How Avoided ....12, 13, 580, 779, 783, 
How One May Become Comparatively 
Immune to . 
Importance of Removing Immediately.. 
Not Always Prevented by Smoke. ...... 
of Queen . 
Operating after Separated from the Bees 
Proper Way to Remove.779, 
Remedies for . 
Severe, What to Do in Emergencies.780, 
Veils as a Protection Against.778, 
Stores for Brood-rearing . 
Good or Bad in the Cellars. 
Natural, versus Sugar for Wintering... 
Should be Abundant for Production of 
Extracted Honey . 
Strain of Bees Immune to Disease. 
Straining Honey during Extracting. 
Straw Skeps .753, 
Stung, Rules for Avoiding Being.783, 
Success or Failure Dependent upon Proper 
Manipulation of Colonies. 
Sucrose . 
Sucrose Converted into Invert Sugar. 
Sugar, Beet and Cane Compared. 
Cane . 
from a Chemical Standpoint. 
Granulated . 
Sucrose . 
Various Kinds of. 
Sumac Honey, Quality of. 
Sumac, Species of . 
Sunflower, Species of . 
Sunflower, Wild, of Florida. 
Super Springs . 
Super T for Sections. 
Supers Comb Honey, Tiering Up.240, 
Early Work in, for Swarm Control. 
for Plain Sections.232, 
in Extracting, Freeing of Bees. 323, 
Shifting from One Colony to Another.241, 
When and How to Put on... .. 
Supersedure Cells Distinguished from Swarm¬ 
ing Cells . 
Supersedure of Queens Defined. 
Swarm Accompanied by Some Drones. 
Acompanied by Young Queen. 
Catcher .800, 
Catcher, Automatic . 
Cluster on a Limb.796, 
Control by Removal of Queen. 
Control, Coveyou’s Plan. 
Control in Extracting.319, 
Control of Importance, Worker Comb... 
Control, Queen-excluders for. 
Control, Ventilation for. 
from Supersedure Cells. 
Hook . 
How to Hive.796- 
Prime .791) 
Prime, with Young Queen. 
Swarming .790- 
After. See After-swarming. 
and Queen-cells . 
Artificial . 
Artificial, When Practicable. 79 
Bag . 798 
Bees Good-natured . 792 
Box . 12 
Cause of .803- 807 
Cells Distinguished from Supersedure 
Cells . 815 
Controlled by Clipping. 795, 796 
Controlled by Early Work in Supers... 812 
Controlled by Large or Small Hives.... 808 
Controlled by Manipulation of Brood- 
chambers .808,. 809 
Controlled by Removal of Brood. 815 
Controlled by Shade. 811 
Controlled by Strong Colonies. 811 
Demaree Plan of Controlling.815- 817 
Device, Manum’s . 799 
Devices . 798- 801 
Events Leading up to. 791 
Factors That Influence. 794 
from Lack of Stores. 794 
How Affected by Honey Flow. 794 
How Started . 96 
Inclination, Detecting . 272 
Indicated by Piping .. 793 
Influence of Age of Queens. 804 
Influence of Drones. 804 
Influence of, Hereditary. 804 
Influence of Size of Hives. 804 
Influenced by Field Bees.805, 806 
Influenced by Locality . 807 
Influenced by Queen. 810 
Influenced by Removal of Brood. 812 
Influenced by Room for Ripening Nectar 812 
Influenced by Sealed Honey in Brood-nest 811 
Influenced by Young Bees. 805 
Loss from . 795 
Natural Method of Reproduction. 803 
Necessary Evil .19, 795 
One Factor Always Present.806, 807 
Out . 803 
Out, How to Check. 803 
Plurality of Queens in. 794 
Preparation for . 795 
Prevented hy Destroying Queen-cells 813, 814 
Prevention of .795, 796, 807- 814 
Reduced by Shifting Queen. 809 
Remedial Measures .814- 817 
Season . 794 
Symptoms of . 791 
Tendency Reduced by Breeding Stock.. 808 
Various Kinds Defined.790, 791 
When Occurs . 795 
Swarms, Absconding. See Absconding Swarms. 
After . 792- 794 
Brought Down by Bells. 15 
Bushel Basket for . 800 
Buying of Farmers. 121 
Checked with Clipping Queen. 803 
Clustering on Unusual Places.14, 15 
Controlled by Removal of Queen. 815 
Controlled by Spray Pump. 800 
from Hunger . 791 
Going to the Woods. 13 
Inaccessible to Get. 797 
on Combs or Foundation.802, 803 
Proportion of Old and Young Bees. 792 
Second. See After-swarming. 
Shaken Artificially . 80 
to Bring from a Distance. 798 
What to Hive on. 802, 803 
When They Break Cluster. 792 
Sweet Clover .818- 832 
Abundant in Canada and the New Eng¬ 
land States . 821 
Also Known as Bokhara Clover. 818 
as Cover Crop. 830 
as Excellent Pasture . 824 
49 
111 
118 
118 
117 
788 
786 
785 
2 
778 
3 
787 
784 
782 
779 
786 
708 
787 
780 
780 
781 
779 
145 
919 
926 
315 
277 
337 
754 
784 
575 
180 
546 
788 
180 
788 
788 
180 
788 
789 
788 
790 
790 
230 
229 
241 
812 
233 
324 
242 
236 
815 
790 
792 
793 
801 
801 
797 
816 
808 
320 
810 
809 
810 
791 
800 
801 
792 
794 
818 
79 
79 
