| Chapter | | Page |
| I. | Introductory Matters | [1] |
| II. | Bee-Boxes and Management of Bees in them | [14] |
| III. | Ventilation | [49] |
| IV. | Thermometer | [58] |
| V. | On Driving Bees | [90] |
| VI. | Inverted-Hive | [96] |
| VII. | Observatory-Hive | [107] |
| —— | Mode of Stocking an Observatory-Hive | [119] |
| VIII. | Fumigation | [121] |
| IX. | Objections against Piling Boxes | [135] |
| X. | Apiary at Delabere Park | [149] |
| XI. | Honey-Bees | [156] |
| —— | For the Sting of a Bee | [171] |
| XII. | Impregnation of the Queen-Bee | [175] |
| XIII. | Supernumerary Queens | [181] |
| XIV. | Bee-Feeding | [190] |
| —— | Bee-Food | [200] |
| XV. | Catalogue of Bee-Flowers, &c. | [206] |
| XVI. | Honey-Comb | [211] |
| —— | Bees' Wax | [232] |
| XVII. | Winter Situation for Bees | [237] |
| XVIII. | Apiarian Societies | [246] |
| XIX. | Miscellaneous Directions | [253] |