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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.