INDEX.

[ [A] ][ [B] ][ [C] ][ [D] ][ [E] ][ [F] ][ [G] ][ [H] ]
[ [I] ][ [J] ][ [K] ][ [L] ][ [M] ][ [N] ][ [O] ][ [P] ]
[ [Q] ][ [R] ][ [S] ][ [T] ][ [U] ][ [V] ][ [W] ][ [Z] ]

PAGE.
A.
Acclimatising bees[213], [249]
Adapting-board[96], [162], [183]
Age of bees[10], [11]
Anatomy of bees (Plates I and a), description of[31]
Anecdotes of,[240], [242], [245], [246]
Anger of bees[149], [163], [190]
Antennæ ([Plate I])[38]
—— act as a barometer[39]
Apiary, best time to set up an[21]
—— exterior and interior of an[138], [139]
Artificial swarming[169], [182]
—— time for[171]
Artificial comb[157]
Aspect[64], [248]
Australia, sending bees to[213]
B.
Baby-bee, cradle of[16]
—— emerging from the cell[17]
Bar, improved[90]
Bar and frame-hives[84]
—— manipulation of[15]
—— advantages of[168], [174], [178]
—— changing after winter[178]
—— recommended[243]
Bee-dress or protector[27], [115], [148], [170]
—— necessity for[149], [165]
Bee-decoy, to attract swarms[25]
Bees live in society[3]
—— lesson to man[11]
—— young[17]
—— cluster outside hives[23]
—— peaceful whilst swarming[27]
—— should not be fed in winter[141]
—— tempted to rob[140]
—— reduced size of[168]
—— at the International Exhibition of 1862[213]
—— breath, human, obnoxious to[149], [190]
—— artificial scent ditto[190]
Bee-keeping in London[215]
—— Zoological and Horticultural Gardens[221]
Bee-keeping, profit arising from[239]
Bee-hives (modern):—
Huber's book or leaf hive[118]
Neighbour's cottager's:—
Description of[80]
Neighbour's improved cottage:—
Description of[68]
Care necessary to keep a good store of food[75]
Neighbour's improved cottage without window:—
Description of[76]
Neighbour's unicomb observatory:—
Description and application of[98]
Exhibited in Paris, 1855[101]
Prize medal[101]
Neighbour's single-box:—
Description of and directions for[63]
Keep glass warm[65]
Nutt's collateral:—
Description of[51]
Taking surplus honey[58]
Stewarton hive:—
Description of[109]
Directions for management[112]
Nadir box, value of[117]
Extra boxes required[118]
Taylor's improved cottage:—
Description of[96]
Taylor's amateur's eight-bar wood:—
Description of[65]
Stand for ditto[67]
Taylor's eight-bar straw[96]
Woodbury bar and frame:—
Description of[84]
Straw ditto[85]
Glass ditto[88]
Special advantages of straw[86]
Origin of[86]
Manipulation with[157]
Super[93]
Putting on[162]
Woodbury Unicomb:—
Construction of[102]
Modes of tenanting[106], [107]
How transferred to box-hive[108]
Bee-houses, advantage of[123]
—— engravings of houses to contain twelve hives[126], [127]
—— object of colouring alighting-boards[126]
—— loss of queens[127]
Bee-house to contain nine hives, engraving[128]
Bell-glasses[133]
Bottle-feeder[140]
—— directions for using[142]
Breathing of bees[43]
Brood, royal[9], [175], [179]
—— wire cover for (engraving of)[175]
C.
Cells, contracted size of[168]
Cells, royal, see [Brood].
Changing old stocks to new hives not to be attempted by inexperienced[182]
—— old hives into humane ones[183]
—— old stocks to frame-hives[184]
Classes for whom bee-keeping has interest[1]
Combs, value of[152]
—— must not be jarred[149]
—— how fixed in frames[160]
—— ensuring regularity of[67], [90], [152], [161],
[(note) 184]
—— artificial, description of[151]
—— how fixed in frames[160]
Compound bar-frame[91]
Cottagers, way to convince, of the humane system[139]
Cover for square hives[67], [55]
—— for round hives[81], [131], [132]
Crown-board[34], [87]
D.
Dampness in hives in winter injurious[75], [86], [148]
Depriving system, special advantages of[19], [82]
Diseases of bees[231]
Dividing hives, reason why they do not answer[173]
Driving bees, directions for[179]
Drone, description of[11]
Drones, massacre of[14]
Dysentery[215], [232]
E.
Eggs of bees ([Plate 2, fig. 7])[16]
—— how made into queens[15]
—— position in the hive[16]
—— time hatching[17]
Engraved pressing roller[150]
Entrance to hives[52], [74], [86]
—— stopped, danger therefrom[250]
Epitaph on brimstoned bees[20]
Evans, poet of the bees (note on)[4]
—— 'poetry of,'[7], [11], [12], [23], [24], [142]
Evening thoughts in January[129]
F.
Feeding[54], [64], [75], [79], [140], [143]
Feet of bees[42]
Food necessary (note)[140]
Foul brood[232]
Frames[89]
—— should hang true[91]
—— how kept perpendicular[91]
—— manipulation with[157]
French bishop, anecdote of[240]
Fructifying flowers, bees useful for[194]
Fumigator box[145]
—— tube[147]
G.
Gardeners ought to be bee-keepers[247]
General remarks[238]
Glasses, bell[133], [154]
—— must be kept warm[65]
Guide-comb for glasses[135]
—— for bars[68], [97]
—— note[161]
H.
Hive should be ready for swarm[27], [71], [250]
Hives, see Bee-hives.
Hearing of bees, sense of[38]
Honey-bag ([Plate II, figs. 1 and 2])[44]
—— way to drain from comb[230]
—— cutters[145]
—— dew[199]
Human breath obnoxious[147]
Huber (Francis), life of[121]
I.
Improved cottage-hive[68]
—— comb-bar[90]
Impressed wax sheets[151]
Impregnation of queen[6], [13]
Increase of bees[18]
India-rubber gloves[27], [149], [159]
Insects, cleansing hives from[125]
Interchange of combs for strengthening weak hives[92], [168]
Italian Alp Bee ([Plate I, figs. 1, 2, 3]), not all of them yellow[33]
—— description of[200]
—— German bee-keeper's opinion[203]
—— great honey-collecting powers[203]
—— Hermann's book on[205]
—— introduction into England[203]
—— importation of queens unsuccessful in many instances[206]
—— plan of uniting foreign queens to English stocks[(note) 207]
J.
Journal of Horticulture,[208], [217]
K.
Keeping bell-glasses warm[65]
—— boxes[116]
L.
Legs of bees[40]
Ligurian honey-bee, see Italian Bee.
Loyalty of bees[5], [99], [104]
M.
Mortar not necessary for closing crevices[82]
Moths, how to prevent[228]
N.
Neglect of bee-keeping[1]
Neighbour's hives, see Bee-hives.
New bottle-feeder[140]
Number of eggs in the season[5]
Nutt's hive, see Bee-hives
Nutt, Thos. (the late)[60]
O.
Ornamental zinc cover[131]
P.
Pasturage for bees[197]
—— honey yielding flowers[198]
—— wild flowers best[199]
Poison of sting[48]
Pollen, food for infant-bees[193]
—— how collected[193], [194]
—— brush ([Plate I, fig. 1, 2b.])
—— basket, [2b*], description of[41]
Putting in super-hives and bell-glasses,[56], [64], [65], [72],
[79], [81], [83], [110], [113]
Propolis, or bees' cement[195]
Q.
Queen ([Plate I, fig. 1]), description of[4]
—— movements of, laying eggs[5]
Queen, marriage day[7], [13], [177]
—— attachment of bees to[7]
—— disrespect until fertile[8]
—— jealousy of her rivals[8], [175]
—— dismay of bees at loss of[9]
—— raised from worker[10]
—— longevity of[10]
—— old one goes with first swarm[22]
—— leaves the hive only in fine weather[23]
—— in super-hives[59], [83]
—— loss of[9], [127], [174]
R.
Roller, engraved pressing[150]
Robber-bees[140]
Royal brood[9], [175]
S.
Spiracles[41]
Spring, good time to commence bee-keeping[21]
Sprinkling bees[146], [165]
Stands for hives—
—— engravings[62], [69]
—— for Nutt's[84]
—— Woodbury[54], [94]
—— Stewarton hive, see Bee-hives.
Sting of worker-bee, ([Plate II, fig. 4])[46], [189]
—— queen[5], [8]
Stocks, ventilated for travelling[251]
—— why called so[162]
—— best kept strong[19], [57], [117]
Stomach ([Plate II, figs, 1 and 2 hh])[44], [45]
Supers, glass[133], [134], [135]
—— straw[81]
—— for Woodbury hives, engraving[93], [162]
Superstitions[245]
Swarming, usual time of year for[21]
—— cause of[22]
—— agitation before[23]
—— usual time of day for[24]
—— desirable to prevent[30], [56]
—— consequence of a second flight of[26]
—— how to hive[28], [71]
—— means of preventing second flight[26]
—— two sometimes depart from their
respective hives at same time, and mingle		[27]
—— care to prevent loss of[26]
—— time for removing[28]
—— care to be exercised with[53], [64], [71]
—— first most valuable[29]
—— second, cause of[29]
—— how to restore[30]
—— premonitory symptoms of[29]
T.
Taking honey[58], [73], [115], [163]
Taylor's hives, see Bee-hives[21]
Thomson's "Seasons," extract from[21]
Thorax ([Plate II, fig. 1])[40]
U.
Unicomb hives[6], [17], [97], [102]
V.
Ventilation[51], [71], [73], [124], [249]
W.
Wasps, how to prevent the increase of[223]
—— attack of[225]
Water essential[200]
Weighing hives, importance of[185]
—— engraving of Salter's spring balance[186]
Wildman[215]
—— marvellous feats of[217]
Woodbury hives, see Bee-hives.
—— super, see Supers.
Worker-bee, description of[15]
—— number in a hive[15], [28]
Z.
Zinc covers[131], [132]

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.

£s.d.
1.Nutt's Collateral Bee-Hive550
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.
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
45.Woodbury Straw Bar and Frame Hive (Stock Hive)150
46.Woodbury Unicomb Hive6100
Stand, 24s.
47.Common Cottager's Hive056
42.Woodbury Bar and Frame Hive, complete with outside
cover and super		3100
Stand for ditto, 10s. 6d.
50.Stewarton Hive110
Floor-boards for ditto, 3s. 6d.
24.Taylor's Glass7s. and046
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 and0150
30.Shallow Glasses (new shape)each 5/6 and036
31.Bee Dress and Protector5/., by post074
37.Zinc Cover110
38.Ornamental ditto250
39.Bee House to contain Two Hives440
40. " " Twelve Hives£15. and19100
44.Bottle Feeder026
46.Engraved Pressing Roller076
49.Impressed Wax Sheets or Artificial Combs per dozen060
50.India-rubber glovesper pair056

Transcriber Note

The Appendix ends on [page 271]. However, the Index which begins two pages afterward start at page 269. Therefore, the Index was renumbered starting at 273. The item numbers for the Price List at the end of the book are not in numerical order and there are some repeated numbers. No attempt was made to correct this. On [page 144], the word "bee-keeper" in the first line of "ZINC FOUNTAIN BEE-FEEDER" was changed to "bee-feeder".