CHAPTER XVII.
| Wintering Bees | [246] |
| The Cause of Disastrous Wintering | [246] |
| Requisite to Safe Wintering—Good Food | [248] |
| Secure Late Breeding | [249] |
| To Secure and Maintain Proper Temperature | [249] |
| Box for Packing | [250] |
| Chaff Hives | [251] |
| Wintering in Cellar or House | [252] |
| Burying Bees | [254] |
| Spring Dwindling | [254] |
CHAPTER XVIII.
| The House Apiary | [255] |
| Description | [255] |
| Are they Desirable | [256] |
| The Case as it Now Stands | [256] |
CHAPTER XIX.
| Evils that Confront the Apiarist | [258] |
| Robbing | [258] |
| Disease | [259] |
| Foul Brood | [259] |
| Remedies | [260] |
| Enemies of Bees | [262] |
| The Bee Moth | [262] |
| History | [266] |
| Remedies | [266] |
| Bee Killer | [267] |
| Bee Louse | [268] |
| Important Suggestion | [269] |
| Bee Hawk | [269] |
| Tachina Fly | [270] |
| Spiders | [271] |
| Ants | [271] |
| Wasps | [271] |
| The King Bird | [272] |
| Toads | [272] |
| Mice | [272] |
CHAPTER XX.
| Calendar and Axioms | [274] |
| Work for Different Months | [274] |
| January | [274] |
| February | [274] |
| March | [274] |
| April | [275] |
| May | [275] |
| June | [275] |
| July | [275] |
| August | [275] |
| September | [276] |
| October | [276] |
| November | [276] |
| December | [276] |
| Axioms | [277] |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| 1. | Trachea | [28] |
| 2. | Respiratory Apparatus of a Bee | [29] |
| 3. | Bee's Wings | [38] |
| 4. | Head of Drone | [39] |
| 5. | Head of Worker | [39] |
| 6. | Head of Bee | [49] |
| 7. | Thorax of Bee | [55] |
| 8. | Nervous System of Drone | [58] |
| 9. | Alimentary Canal | [60] |
| 10. | Male Organs of Bee | [63] |
| 11. | Queen Organs | [64] |
| 12. | Larva of Bee | [68] |
| 13. | Pupa of Bee | [69] |
| 14. | Queen Bee | [72] |
| 15. | Labium of Queen | [73] |
| 16. | Part of Queen's Leg | [74] |
| 17. | Drone | [86] |
| 18. | Part of Drone's Leg | [87] |
| 19. | Worker Bee | [90] |
| 20. | Tongue of Worker Bee | [91] |
| 21. | Jaw of Queen, Drone and Worker | [92] |
| 22. | Part of Posterior Leg of Worker—outside | [93] |
| 23. | Part of Posterior Leg of Worker—inside | [94] |
| 24. | Anterior Leg of Worker | [94] |
| 25. | Sting of Worker | [95] |
| 26. | Egg and Brood | [97] |
| 27. | Wax Scales | [106] |
| 28. | Honey-Comb | [109] |
| 29. | Langstroth Hive | [124] |
| 30. | Body of Hive | [125] |
| 31. | Bevel Gauge | [126] |
| 32. | Bottom-Board | [128] |
| 33. | Two-Story Hive | [130] |
| 34. | Cover to Hive | [131] |
| 35. | Frame | [133] |
| 36. | Frame, with Cross-Section of Top-Bar | [134] |
| 37. | Block for making Frames | [135] |
| 38. | Division-Board | [137] |
| 39. | Part of Quinby Hive | [139] |
| 40. | Part of Bingham Hive | [140] |
| 41. | Glass Honey Box | [142] |
| 42. | Isham Honey Box | [143] |
| 43. | Harbison Section Frame | [143] |
| 44. | Chisel | [144] |
| 45. | Block for Section Making | [145] |
| 46. | Hetherington Separator | [146] |
| 47. | Dove-tailed Section | [146] |
| 48. | Phelps Section | [147] |
| 49. | Section Frame | [148] |
| 50. | Sections in Frame | [149] |
| 51. | Southard's Section Back | [150] |
| 52. | Wheeler's Section Back | [150] |
| 53. | Hive in Shade of Ever-green | [155] |
| 54. | Feeder | [160] |
| 55. | Simplicity Feeder | [161] |
| 56. | Queen-cell Inserted in Comb | [167] |
| 57. | Shipping Queen Cage | [187] |
| 58. | Everett's Extractor | [189] |
| 59. | Comb Basket for Extractor | [190] |
| 60. | Knife for Uncapping | [191] |
| 61. | Knife with Curved Point | [191] |
| 62. | Bee-Veil | [196] |
| 63. | Quinby Smokers | [199] |
| 64. | Bingham Smoker | [199] |
| 65. | Comb Foundation | [203] |
| 66. | Comb Foundation Machine | [205] |
| 67. | Comb Foundation Cutter | [206] |
| 68. | Block for Fastening Foundation | [210] |
| 69. | Presser for Block | [211] |
| 70. | Wax Extractor | [212] |
| 71. | Prize Crate | [216] |
| 72. | Heddon Crate | [217] |
| 73. | Maple | [222] |
| 74. | Willow | [223] |
| 75. | Judas Tree | [224] |
| 76. | American Wistaria | [225] |
| 77. | Chinese Wistaria | [226] |
| 78. | Barberry | [226] |
| 79. | White Sage | [227] |
| 80. | White or Dutch Clover | [228] |
| 81. | Alsike Clover | [229] |
| 82. | Melilot Clover | [230] |
| 83. | Borage | [230] |
| 84. | Mignonette | [231] |
| 85. | Okra | [231] |
| 86. | Mint | [232] |
| 87. | Pollen of Milk-Weed | [233] |
| 88. | Black Mustard | [233] |
| 89. | Rape | [234] |
| 90. | Tulip | [235] |
| 91. | Teasel | [236] |
| 92. | Cotton | [236] |
| 93. | Basswood | [237] |
| 94. | Figwort | [238] |
| 95. | Button-Bush | [240] |
| 96. | Rocky Mountain Bee Plant | [239] |
| 97. | Boneset | [241] |
| 98. | Buckwheat | [242] |
| 99. | Golden Rod | [243] |
| 100. | Sun Flower | [243] |
| 101. | Packing-Box for Winter | [250] |
| 102. | Gallery of Moth Larva | [a]262] |
| 103. | Moth Larva in Comb | [a]263] |
| 104. | Moth Larvæ | [264] |
| 105. | Moth Cocoons | [264] |
| 106. | Moth with Wings Spread | [264] |
| 107. | Male and Female Moths | [265] |
| 108. | Bee-Killer | [268] |
| 109. | Bee Louse | [268] |
| 110. | Tachina Fly | [270] |
| 111. | Munn's Hive | [270] |
| 112. | Munn's Triangular Hive | [280] |
| 113. | Lecanium Tulipiferas | [288] |
| 114. | Stem of Motherwort | [289] |
| 115. | Fruit and Leaf of Motherwort | [290] |
| 116. | Motherwort Bloom | [291] |
| 117. | Sour-Wood | [292] |
| 118. | Stinging-Bug--natural size | [294] |
| 119. | Magnified twice | [294] |
| 120. | Beak, magnified | [294] |
| 121. | Antenna, magnified | [295] |
| 122. | Anterior leg, exterior view | [295] |
| 123. | " " interior view | [295] |
| 124. | Claw, extended | [296] |
| 125. | Middle leg, magnified | [296] |
| 126. | Southern Bee-Killer | [297] |
| 127. | Wings extended | [297] |
| 128. | Head of | [298] |
| 131. | Foot of | [298] |
| 129. | Wing of | [299] |
| 130. | Wing of Asilus Missouriensis | [300] |
| 132. | Honey-Comb Coral | [301] |
| 133. | Wasp-stone Coral | [302] |