INTRODUCTION.

Who May Keep Bees[11]
Specialists[11]
Amateurs[11]
Who are Specially Interdicted[12]
Inducements to Bee-Keeping[12]
Recreation[12]
Profit[13]
Excellence as an Amateur Pursuit[15]
Adaptation to Women[15]
Improves the Mind and Observation[17]
Yields Delicious Food[17]
What Successful Bee-Keeping Requires[18]
Mental Effort[18]
Experience Necessary[18]
Learn from Others[18]
Aid from Conventions[19]
Aid from Bee Papers[19]
American Bee Journal[19]
Gleanings in Bee Culture[20]
Bee-Keepers' Magazine[21]
Books for the Apiarist[21]
Langstroth on the Honey-Bee[21]
Quinby's Mysteries of Bee-Keeping[22]
King's Text-Book[22]
A, B, C of Bee Culture[22]
Foreign Works[22]
Promptitude[23]
Enthusiasm[24]

PART I.

Natural History of the Honey Bee.

CHAPTER I.

The Bee's Place in the Animal Kingdom[27]
The Branch of the Honey-Bee[27]
The Class of the Honey-Bee[28]
The Order of the Honey-Bee[30]
The Sub-Order of the Honey-Bee[31]
The Family of the Honey-Bee[34]
The Genus of the Honey-Bee[38]
The Species of the Honey-Bee[41]
The Varieties of the Honey-Bee[41]
German, or Black Bee[41]
Italian, or Ligurian[41]
Fasciata, or Egyptian[42]
Other Varieties[43]
Bibliography[44]
Valuable Books on Entomology[47]

CHAPTER II.

Anatomy and Physiology[48]
Anatomy of Insects[48]
Organs of the Head[48]
Appendages of the Thorax[55]
Internal Anatomy[56]
Secretory Organs[61]
Sex Organs[62]
Transformations[66]
The Egg[67]
The Larva[68]
The Pupa[68]
The Imago Stage[70]
Incomplete Transformations[70]
Anatomy and Physiology of the Honey Bee[71]
Three Kinds of Bees in Each Colony[71]
The Queen[71]
The Drone[86]
The Neuters or Workers[90]

CHAPTER III.

Swarming, or Natural Method of increase[101]