INDEX.

Adapting-boards, [8]
Alighting-boards, [18]
Apiary, aspect of, [5]
in northern aspect, [62], [65]
Barley-sugar, [39]
to make, [25]
Bar-frame, compound, [16]
Bar hives, [51]
Bee dress, [32]
trap, [56]
Bees, natural history of, [3]
drones, [4]
Ligurian, [32]
queen, [3]
workers, [4]
removing from one hive to another, [48]
removing, [65]
Bell-glasses, [8], [22], [38], [42], [46]
to expel Bees, from, [28]
Boxes, [8]
putting on, [46]
Comb-bar, improved, [17]
Combs, cutting out old, [43]
melted, [54]
securing in frames, [19]
Coverings, [62]
Defence, [47]
Depriving, [47]
Driving, [48], [60]
Drones, [45]
Dysentery, [40]
Early breeding, to promote, [39], [52], [59]
Enemies, [37], [39], [63]
Entrances, [7] [37], [58], [64]
Feeding, [25], [37], [38], [42], [50], [63], [66]
Feeding-pans, [27]
Floor-boards, [18];
to clean, [41], [43], [63]
Food, [37], [66]
Frames, to secure combs in, [19]
Fumigation, [29]
Glasses, putting on, [12], [22], [38], [43], [46], [50], [54]
taking off, [57]
covering for, [47]
Guide-combs, [44], [51]
Haybands, [41]
Hive, stand for, [5], [61]
Hives, [6], [38], [41], [54], [68]
Amateurs', [10]
Bar, [42]
Bees forsaking, [41]
Fenn's, [11]
Neighbour's Improved Cottage, [8]
Neighbour's Observatory, [9]
Payne's Improved Cottage, [6]
Stewarton, [13]
Taylor's Amateurs', [10]
Tegetmeier's, [14]
Woodbury's, [15]
of comb, [22], [39], [61]
putting on small, [22], [46]
to dress, [58]
transporting, [58]
Hiving, [22]
Honey, time for taking, [53], [56]
draining from the combs, [29]
manner of taking, [28]
vinegar, [31]
Knife for cutting out combs, [57]
Ligurians, [32]
multiplying swarms of, [35]
to unite, [34]
Mead, [30]
Mice, [37]
Moths, [45]
Northern Aspect, [62], [65]
Pedestals, [40]
Pollen, [40], [41], [44], [50]
Queenless Stocks, [52]
Queen Wasps, to destroy, [45], [49], [52], [58]
Robbers, [58], [62]
Shading, [37], [54], [58], [59]
Snow, [37], [41], [63]
Sparrows, [50]
Stands for hives, [5], [61], [62]
Stings, remedies for, [31]
Stocks, [39], [62], [66]
purchasing, [32], [42]
to stand the winter, [60]
Stupifying Bees, [29]
Supers, [18], [47], [59], [65]
Swarming, [20], [51]
symptoms of, [21]
Swarms, [48]
artificial, [51]
early, [56]
premature, [49]
returning, [53], [55]
second, [22]
uniting, [23], [34], [56]
Titmouse, [37]
Ventilation, [24], [37], [48], [65], [67]
Wasps, [42], [54], [63], [62]
Wasps' nests, to destroy, [53]
Water, [39], [43]
Wax, preparation of, [31]
Young Bees, [41]

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