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[193],17, for lives read hives.
[228],2, after “higher flavour” add “and in its never candying, nor even losing its fluidity by long keeping.”

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

Chap.Page.
I.The History and Physiology of the Bee[1]
II.The Apiary[47]
III.The Bee-house[52]
IV.Pasturage[55]
V.Honey-dew[71]
VI.The Purchase of Bees[80]
VII.Bee-boxes[83]
VIII.Bee-hives[95]
IX.Comparative Advantages of Wooden Boxes and Straw Hives[100]
X.Leaf Hives[102]
XI.Dividers[107]
XII.Storifying[109]
XIII.Swarming[115]
XIV.Comparative Advantages of Storifying and Single-hiving[122]
XV.Symptoms which precede Swarming[127]
XVI.Hiving of Swarms[136]
XVII.On removing Bees from common Straw Hives to Storifying Hives or Boxes[148]
XVIII.Super- and Nadir-hiving by means of Binders[151]
XIX.Uniting Swarms or Stocks[154]
XX.Proper Periods of Deprivation[162]
XXI.Taking Money by means of Dividers[167]
XXII.The Bee-dress[176]
XXIII.Feeding[179]
XXIV.Diseases of Bees[184]
XXV.Enemies of Bees[199]
XXVI.Exotic Bees[210]
XXVII.Separation of Wax and Honey[216]
XXVIII.Wax[220]
XXIX.Honey[226]
XXX.Mead[236]