Transcriber’s Note

The original book was lacking a Table of Contents.

Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
The Bee-Keeper’s Manual.[1]
The Queen or Mother Bee[4]
The Common or Working Bees[11]
Swarming (or Single Hiving) and Depriving Systems[21]
Common Straw (or Single) Hives[27]
Straw Depriving Hives[30]
Hive-Covers[37]
Floor or Hive-Boards[42]
Hive-Stands, or Pedestals[37]
Wood Box Hives[51]
Wood Bar Boxes[54]
Bar Glass Hives[72]
Straw Bar-Hives[73]
Circular Wooden Hives[75]
Collateral System[78]
White’s Collateral Hive[81]
Nutt’s Collateral Hive[82]
Nadir Hive[87]
Bee Sheds and Houses[94]
Position and Aspect[97]
Bee Passage and Number of Hives[101]
Summer Management.[106]
Wax and Combs[109]
Propolis[112]
Honey[113]
Pollen and Farina[113]
Water[115]
Shade[115]
Moths, Wasps, Hornets, and Other Enemies[116]
Super-hiving[119]
Bell-glasses[120]
Triplets and Nadirs[122]
Autumnal Management.[124]
Remove a Full Box or Super[125]
Honey Harvest[128]
Comb-Knives[130]
Robbers[131]
Autumnal Feeding[132]
Feeding-troughs[133]
Bee Food[137]
Winter Store[138]
Autumnal Unions, Fuming, and Transferring Bees[140]
Driving of Bees[152]
Winter Management.[157]
Winter Positioning[158]
Damp in Hives[161]
Temperature[162]
Dysentery[164]
Spring Management.[166]
Cleaning or Changing Floor-boards[167]
Comb-pruning[167]
General Directions[168]
Spring Feeding[170]
Enemies and Robbers[175]
Super-hives[176]
Temperature and Weather[177]
Swarming[180]
Returning of Swarms[183]
After-swarms[186]
Uniting of Swarms[192]
Prevention of After-swarms[193]
Maiden Swarms[196]
General Directions on Swarming[196]
Artificial Swarming[199]
Dividing Bar-Hive[204]
Bee-Protector[208]
Remedy for the Sting of a Bee[210]
Conclusion.[212]
Index.[217]