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INDEX—Continued
  • Bee-escape, Plate III.
  • Porter, 18.
  • Porter, use of, 101.
  • Bee-gum, 83.
  • Bee-hunting, 211.
  • Bee-keepers, 206.
  • books written by, 9.
  • number of, 207.
  • Bee-keepers' supplies, catalogue of, 10.
  • Bee-keeping, 206.
  • a beginner's order, 11.
  • as a regular business, 10.
  • attractive materials of, 85.
  • how to begin, 8.
  • too successful, 73.
  • worst way to begin, 10.
  • Bees, as a recreation, 5.
  • as socialists, 6.
  • a study in natural science, 6.
  • belong to the garden, 7.
  • control population, 34.
  • diseases of, 176.
  • enemies and diseases of, 172.
  • feeding of, 136.
  • German or black, 12, 47.
  • how they collect propolis, 60, 61.
  • how they secrete wax, 52.
  • how to handle them, 91.
  • how to keep from keeping too many, 73.
  • how to manage when swarming, 66.
  • how to reconcile swarm to new hive, 70.
  • how to unite colonies, 82.
  • how to winter, 145.
  • how to work with, 92.
  • hybrids, 48.
  • Italian, 12, 13.
  • Italian and black bees compared, 48.
  • Italian, Mr. Root's test for, 48.
  • keep for sake of honey, 4.
  • keep for sake of money, 4.
  • legends and literature of, 3.
  • races of, 12.
  • races of domestic, 47.
  • reasons why one should keep, 3.
  • relations to plants, 194.
  • robbing, 164.
  • secreting wax, Plate X.
  • sense of smell, 92.
  • swarming of, 64.
  • telling the, 61.
  • watering, 143.
  • when they swarm, 65.
  • why they swarm, 64.
  • wild, 47.
  • Beeswax, adulterated, 126, 134.
  • clarified by vinegar, 128.
  • how to make it, 126.
  • its value, 126.
  • maxims for making, 135.
  • press, 132.
  • primitive method of rendering, 127.
  • refining of, 134.
  • rendered in wash boiler, 129.
  • Beeswax-extractors, 130.
  • Black brood, 179.
  • Blue thistle, 204.
  • Boardman wax extractor, 130, 131.
  • Body wall, 181, Plate XXV.
  • Bonnet, 207.
  • Borage, 204.
  • Bottom board, 83.
  • Box elder in blossom, Plate XXX.
  • Box hives, 83, 208.
  • Brain, 188, Plate XXV.
  • Brimstoning bees, 208.
  • Brood, black, 179.
  • foul, 176.
  • foundation, 17.
  • how to examine, 97.
  • pickled, 179.
  • Brood chamber, 83.
  • how to examine, 95.
  • size of, 14.
  • Brood frame, Langstroth, how much honey it will hold, 146.