INDEX.

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[ [H] ][ [I] ][ [J] ][ [K] ][ [L] ][ [M] ][ [N] ]
[ [P] ][ [Q] ][ [R] ][ [S] ][ [T] ][ [V] ][ [W] ]

PAGE.
A.
Adapting board[76], [115], [116]
Age of bees[6]
Anger of bees[76], [89]
Apiary, best time to set up[11]
" Exterior and interior of[58]
Artificial Swarming[79]
Right time for[80], [81]
Directions for performing the operation of[80], [81]
Artificial Swarms, how should be placed[83]
Aspect[25], [114], [115]
Australia, sending bees to[100], [101]
B.
Baby bee, cradle of[9]
" emerging from the cell[9]
Bath and West of England Journal[97], [99]
" " " Agricultural Shows[47], [48], [124], [125], [126]
Bee dress[68], [74]
" Necessity for[69], [77]
Bees, reduced size of[79]
" Human breath obnoxious to[89]
" Artificial scent objectionable[89]
Bee Hives (Modern).
Neighbour's Cottager's:—
Description of[34]
Putting on super[35], [36]
Time for removal of[36]
Depositing eggs in super[36]
Neighbour's Improved Cottage (No. 5):—
Description of[28]
Directions for[29]
Weight[27]
Neighbour's Improved Cottage (No. 6)[31]
Neighbour's Ladies' Observatory or Crystal Hive:—
Description of[32]
Feeding[33]
Light not to be admitted at first[33]
Mode of fixing[32], [33]
" stocking[33]
Protection from cold[33]
Use of frame work[33]
Weight[32]
Neighbour's Unicomb Observatory:—
Construction and application[44]
Mode of stocking[44]
How kept warm[46]
How exhibited at Paris[45]
Prize Medal for[45]
Neighbour's Single Box:—
Description of and directions for[24], [25]
Nutt's Collateral:—
Description of[17], [18]
Means of ventilation[21]
Mode of stocking[19], [20]
" taking surplus honey[21], [22]
Feeding[19]
Shed necessary[19]
The late Thomas Nutt[23]
Taylor's Improved Cottage:—
Description of[43]
Taylor's Eight-bar Straw Hive:—
Description of[43]
Taylor's Amateur Eight-bar[26], [29]
" " Seven-bar[27]
Woodbury Bar and Frame:—
Description of[36]
Glass Bar and Frame[38]
Straw Bar and Frame, description of[37]
Special advantage of[37]
Origin of[37]
Directions for stocking[73], [74]
Woodbury Unicomb:— Construction of[46]
Inspection of queen[47]
How fixed[48]
Answering[48], [49]
Mode of stocking[48], [49]
Bees removed before Winter[4]
Huber's Book or Leaf, description of[50], [51]
Bee Houses.
Advantage of[53], [54]
Description of, to contain two hives[53]
Furnished with lock and key[54]
How hives are placed in[54]
Plan for excluding insects[54]
Description of, to contain twelve hives[55]
Object of colouring alighting board[55]
Bees mistaking entrance[55], [56]
Loss of queens[56]
Bee-house to contain nine hives, why not recommended[56]
Bee-keeping, inexpensive and profitable[113]
Bee-keeping in London[102]
St. James's Place[105]
Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park[105]
St. John's Wood and suburbs of London[105]
G. Neighbour and Sons' London Apiary[104]
Seasons, 1863, 1864, favorable for[106]
Bee-keeper should be a book-keeper[111]
C.
Cells, contracted size of[79]
Changing old stocks into new hives:—
Not to be attempted by the inexperienced[86]
Adaptation of old hive to the depriving system[86]
Directions for transferring stocks into frame hives[87]
Classes for whom bee-keeping is suited[1]
Combs, artificial[70]
Value of[70]
Mode of applying[71], [72]
Must not be jarred[69]
Taken from bar and frame hives[75], [79]
Fixing in frames[75]
Ensuring regularity of[27]
Compound Bar and Frame[40]
Cottagers, way to convince of the humane system[111]
Cottagers' hive[34]
Cover for bar and frame hive, description of[41], [42]
Zinc[59], [60]
Ornamental zinc[59]
Straw hackle[35]
Crown board[74], [76]
D.
Dampness in hives in winter injurious[33], [115]
Depriving System:—
Special advantages of[10], [35]
Practiced in ancient Greece and Italy[10]
Profit to be derived from[111], [112]
Dividing hives, reason why they do not answer[82]
Dressing hives inside with sweet not needful[35]
Driving bees, directions for[84], [85]
Drones, sex of[6]
Purpose of[7]
Reason for numbers in hive[7]
General massacre of[7]
All die before winter[8]
E.
Eggs of bees:—
Description of[9]
In supers[36]
Entrance to hives[18], [31], [37]
Epitaph on murdered bees[11]
Evans, note on page, extract from[3], [4], [5], [12], [13]
Evening thoughts in January, a poem[56], [57]
F.
Feeding[19], [25], [31], [33], [63], [64]
Feeder (Bottle)[63]
(Nutt's)[66]
(Round)[65]
(Fountain)[65]
Frame:—
Description of[39]
Mr. "Woodbury's improvement[40]
How kept perpendicular[39], [40]
Taking out with combs[76]
Direction for handling frames[77], [78]
Placing frames in hives[78]
French Bishop visiting a Cure (anecdote)[111], [112]
Fructifying flowers, bees useful for[91]
Fumigation, directions for[66], [67], [68]
Fumigators[66], [67], [68]
G.
General remarks[110] to [116]
Glasses, bell[60], [61], [62]
Great Exhibition of 1851, Testimonials of the press[119], [120], [121]
Guide comb[27]
" for glasses[61], [62]
H.
Hives—see Bee-hives[106]
Large number may be kept[112]
Hive should be ready for swarm[15], [115]
Honey cutters[66]
Honey Dew[94]
Honey, directions for draining from combs[110]
Keeping honey in the comb at a warm temperature[110]
Huber (Francis), extract from Memoirs of[51]
I.
Improved cottage hive[31]
Improved comb bar[39]
Increase of bees[9]
India-rubber gloves[74]
Impregnation of queen[3]
Insects that are injurious[83], [107]
Insects, cleansing hives from[83]
Interchange of combs for strengthening weak hives[79]
Italian honey bee[93], [94], [95]
Description of[96]
Great honey collecting powers[96], [97]
Opinions of German bee-masters[96]
Introduction into England[97]
Hermann's book on[97], [98]
Physical characteristics of[98]
Importation of queens in many instances unsuccessful[99]
Transporting stocks to Australia[100], [101]
At the International Exhibition[70], [100], [101], [121], [122], [123], [124]
J.
Journal of Horticulture[99]
K.
Keeping bell glasses warm[25]
L.
Ligurian honey bee (see [Italian bee])
Loyalty of bees[4]
M.
Mortar, not necessary for closing crevices[35]
Moths, how entrance is effected[109]
How to destroy eggs of[109]
N.
Neglect of bee-keeping[1]
Neighbour's hives (see Bee-hives).
Number of eggs in the season[3]
Nutt's hives (see [Bee-hives])
P.
Pasturage for bees[93], [94]
Honey yielding flowers[93], [94]
Wild flowers best[94]
Pollen, food for infant bees[91]
How collected[91]
Rye meal a substitute for farina from flowers[91]
Propolis, or bees' cement[92]
How obtained[92], [93]
Application of[93]
Anecdote illustrating use of[93]
Putting on super hive or bell glasses[20], [25], [29], [36], [75]
Q.
Queen:—
Description of[2]
Movements of, laying eggs and marriage day[3]
Honor to when fertile[4]
Combats with her rivals[4], [5]
Dismay of bees on loss of[5]
Raised from worker embryo[5]
Longevity of[6]
Old one goes with first swarm[12]
Leaves hive only in fine weather[12]
In super hives[22], [36]
Loss of[5],[56]
View of[44],[47]
Supplying queenless hives with[5],[83]
R.
Roller, engraved pressing:—
Description of[69]
Application of[69], [70]
Royal Agricultural Society's Show[48], [126], [127], [128]
S.
Spring, time to begin bee-keeping[11]
Spring, First flight of bees in, a poem[116], [117]
Sprinkling bees[77]
Stand for hives, engraving[24], [28], [36], [42]
Sticks in hives not necessary[115]
Super for bar and frame hives[41]
Bell glass (see [Glasses])
Straw[35], [36]
Straw hives:
Advantage of[34]
Preference for[34], [37]
Swarming:—
Usual time of year for[11]
Cause of[11]
Agitation before[12]
Provisioning for[13]
Usual time of day for[13]
Poetical description of[13]
Ringing on occasion of, needless[13]
Desirable to prevent[16]
Swarms:—
Devices for inducing settlement of[13]
Consequences of a second flight[14]
Means of preventing ditto[14]
Two sometimes depart at same time and mingle[14]
Necessity of having hives in readiness[14]
Bee dress essential[15]
Time for removing[15]
Care to be exercised when confined[18], [24], [25], [29], [30]
First swarms most valuable[16]
Second, cause of[16]
Premonitory symptoms[16]
Royal wailing indicative of[16]
Numerical composition of[16]
Third, name of[16]
Fourth, name of[16]
Care required to prevent loss of[14], [109]
T.
Taking honey, mode of[21], [22]
Thomson's "Seasons," extract from, on murdered bees[11]
V.
Ventilation[17], [18], [20], [21], [115]
W.
Wasps, how to prevent the increase of[106], [107]
Season 1864 productive of[107]
Water essential[94]
Mismanagement of, during voyage[101]
Weighing hives, importance of[88]
Salter's spring balance best[88]
How to judge of quantity without[88]
Windows, objections to[38]
Wildman[102]
Marvellous feats of[103]
Secret of success[103]
Worker bee:—
Description of[8]
Sex of[8]
Number in hive[8]
Young ones, employment of[8]

NEIGHBOUR'S

IMPROVED BEE-HIVES,

FOR

TAKING HONEY WITHOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BEES.

DRAWINGS AND DETAILED LISTS FORWARDED
ON RECEIPT OF TWO POSTAGE STAMPS.

1.Nutt's Collateral Bee-Hive6150
Stand for ditto, 16s.
2.Neighbour's Improved Single-box Hive330
Stand for ditto, 10s. 6d.
3.Taylor's Shallow-box or Eight-bar Hive, complete with cover3100
Stand for ditto, 10s. 6d.
4.Taylor's Amateur Bar Hive350
Stand for ditto, 10s. 6d.
5.Neighbour's Improved Cottage Hive1150
Stand for ditto, 10s. 6d.
6.An Improved Cottage Hive180
7.The Ladies' Observatory or Crystal Hive. Price complete250
8.The Cottager's Hive0106
9 & 10. Bee Feederseach 5/. and040
11 & 12. Fumigatorseach 2/. and026
13.Honey Cuttersper pair050
14.Taylor's Improved Cottage Hive110
With Stand, £1. 10s.
15.Fountain Bee Feeder060
18.Taylor's Eight-bar Straw Hive, complete2120
Stock Hive only, 15s.
19.Huber's Book or Leaf Hive250
20.Taylor's Unicomb Observatory Hive330
24.Taylor's Glasses7/.046
Payne's ditto030
25.Bell Glass040
26. "020
27. "010
28. " without knob and flat top to put on the table inverted, price with lid046
29.Zinc Covereach 7/6 and0106
30.Shallow Glasses (new shape)each 5/6 and036
31.Bee Dress and Protector5/., by post060
37.Zinc Cover0166
38.Ornamental ditto250
39.Bee House to contain Two Hives3100
40. " " Twelve Hives£15. and19100
Woodbury Unicomb Hive
42. " Bar and Frame Hive, complete with outside
cover and super		330
Stand for ditto, 10s. 6d.
44.Bottle Feeder026
45.Woodbury Straw Bar and Frame Hive (Stock Hive)110
46.Engraved Pressing Roller076
47.Impressed Wax Sheets or Artificial Combs per dozen060

Transcriber Note

Minor typos corrected. The words floor-board and floorboard were both retained.