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  • Smoking bees, should be done carefully, 93, 94.
  • Smoker, Corneil, 16, Plate II.
  • how to fill and use, 92, 93.
  • Social insects, 27.
  • increase of, 64.
  • Solar wax-extractor, 130, 131.
  • Sour wood, 198.
  • Spanish needle, 204.
  • Spraying fruit blossoms with arsenic, 196.
  • Spermatheca, 192, Plate XXVI.
  • Spermatozoa, 192.
  • Spider flower, 204.
  • Spiracles, 188, Plate XXVI.
  • Spring dwindling, 154.
  • Spur, Plate VII.
  • Spur wire embedder, 86.
  • Stained sections, 111.
  • Sting, 193, Plate XXVI.
  • Stomach, 191. Plate XXVI.
  • Sumach blossoms, Plate XXIV.
  • Storifying, no.
  • Sunflower, 203.
  • Super, 11.
  • boxes, 209.
  • cover, II, 91.
  • description of, 87.
  • filled with section boxes, Plate XV.
  • for comb-honey, 87.
  • for extracted honey, 87.
  • foundation, 17.
  • how to entice bees into, 108.
  • how to prepare, 90.
  • how to prepare and place in hive, 91.
  • partly filled, Plate II.
  • parts of, 87.
  • ready to be filled, Plate XII.
  • springs, 88, 90.
  • Supers, 15, 83.
  • different kinds of, 88.
  • how to take off when filled with honey, 101.
  • Swammerdam, 207,
  • Swarm, how to hive, 66, 68.
  • how to manage in difficult places, 69.
  • how to reconcile to new hive, 70.
  • how to stop, 66.
  • size of 65.
  • throwing dirt at, 67.
  • use, fountain pump with, 67.
  • Mr. West's device for saving, 71.
  • when given off, 65.
  • Swarm-catcher, the Manum, 19.
  • Swarming, conditions that lead to, 65.
  • control by brushing out method, 77.
  • control by extracting honey, 76.
  • control by giving room, 76.
  • control by removing queen, 79.
  • lessened by use of large hives, 77.
  • necessary to produce comb-honey, 75.
  • of bees, 64.
  • owing to queen or workers, 65.
  • Swarms, dividing of, 78.
  • Sweet clover, 205.
  • Swiss wax extractor, 131.
  • Syrian, 47.
  • Syrup, for feeding bees how to make, 137.
  • medicated for foul brood, 177.
  • Taking up bees, 208.
  • Tallow, wax adulterant, 134.
  • Tarsus, 185.
  • Telescope cover, 15.
  • Tenement hives for wintering, 149,
  • Tents for bee-keepers, 102.
  • Termites, 27.
  • Thorax, 185.
  • Thornapple blossoms, Plate XXVIII.
  • Thyme, 230.
  • Tibia, 185.
  • Tiering up, 108.
  • Tin pails for extracted honey, 123.
  • Tinned wire, 12.