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INDEX

  • ABC of Bee Culture, 207.
  • Abdomen, 187.
  • After-swarms led by virgin queen, 81.
  • prevention of, 81.
  • reason of and remedy for, 79, 81.
  • Alder, 154.
  • Alfalfa, 201.
  • Alighting board, 15.
  • Alimentary canal, 187, 191, Plates XXV., XXVI.
  • Alley's queen and drone trap, 12.
  • Alsike, 200.
  • Anatomy, external, 181, Plate XXV.
  • internal, 187, Plate XXVI.
  • Antenna cleaner, 186, Plate VIL
  • Antennas, 183, Plate VII.
  • Ants, 27.
  • Apiaries, floating, 209.
  • out, 209.
  • Apiary, high fence for, in city, 23.
  • in village garden, 22.
  • location and arrangement of, 20.
  • mowing the, 23.
  • old-fashioned, Plate XXVII.
  • old orchard good place for, 20.
  • on city house tops, 22.
  • sheep in, 23.
  • windbreak for, 22.
  • Apparatus for extracting, Plate XVIII.
  • Apple, 196.
  • Apple blossoms, Plate XVII.
  • Apricot, 196.
  • Aristotle, 172, 207.
  • Artificial pasturage, 199.

Bacillus alvei, 176.

  • Balling of queen, 32, 158.
  • Basswood, 198.
  • blossoms, frontispiece.
  • Bee, anatomy of, 181.
  • books, 206.
  • brush, Plate III.
  • Brush, Dixie, 19.
  • brush, use of, 101.
  • cellars, for wintering, the Bingham, 151.
  • gloves, 11, 17.
  • glue, its source, 60, 61.
  • glue made from varnish and cement, 61.
  • glue, various uses of, 62.
  • house-keepers, 34.
  • how she gathers pollen, 59.
  • how she collects propolis, 62.
  • ingratitude, 44.
  • journals, 206.
  • moth, 172.
  • moth, development of, 173.
  • moth, how to detect, 173.
  • moth, maxims, 176.
  • moth, remedy for, 174.
  • tent, 102, 168.
  • tree, 214.
  • veil, II, 16.
  • worker, 59.
  • worker, brains of, 40.
  • worker—life and habits of, 42, 43.
  • worker, sex of, 39.
  • Bee-bread, 59.
  • as food, 60.
  • in cells, 98.