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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Plate I.—Basswood blossom | Frontispiece |
| Observation hives | Page 2 |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Plate II.—(a) Two flat section boxes. (b) Corneil smoker | 14 |
| Plate III.—(a) Dixie bee-brush, spur wire-embedder and Van Deusen wax-tube fastener. (b) A super with fences. (c) The Porter bee-escape in a honey-board | 15 |
| Plate IV. Hives well shaded by a tree | 26 |
| Plate V. (a) Queen; drone; worker. (b) Queen cell, (c) Miller's queen introducing cage | 27 |
| Plate VI. Head of drone; head of queen; head of worker; ventral surface of worker showing plates of wax | 30 |
| Plate VII. Legs and antennæ of the honey-bee | 31 |
| Plate VIII. Drone cells in a comb of honey | 50 |
| Plate IX. Side of hive removed showing the bees at work | 51 |
| Plate X. Bees hanging in a curtain secreting wax | 62 |
| Plate XI. Hiving bees; cutting down a swarm | 63 |
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