Superstitions likely to gather around Bees—Unlucky to Buy Bees—Ill Omen for a Swarm to Settle on a Dry Stick—"Have the Bees been told?"—Turning Hives on the Death of the Owner—Probable Origin of these Errors.

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE PROFITS OF BEE-KEEPING.

Methods of Honey-taking—Straw Caps—Bell-Glasses—Sections—Frames—Extractors—Run Honey—Average Returns of Hives.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fig.PAGE
Comb, Showing Different Kinds of Cells[Frontispiece]
1.Eggs and Larva of Bees[12]
2.Larvæ[13]
3.Sealed Cells[14]
4.a, Larva full grown, viewed sideways,
b, Larva preparing for Pupa state 		[15]
5.Worker Larva and Pupa in Comb[16]
6.The Queen of the Hive[19]
7.Queen Surrounded by Attendants[20]
8.A Drone[29]
9.A Worker Bee[35]
10.A Worker Bee, showing the Scales of Wax[53]
11.Festoons of Bees Suspended from the Roof of the Hive[55]
12.Cluster of Bees[58]
13.Wax-Worker commencing a Comb[59]
14.Diagram of Cells[63]
15.Supposed Circular Cells[63]
16.Arrangement of Cells[64]
17.Diagram showing Slope of Cells[66]
18.Arrangement of Combs in a Bell-Glass[68]
19.The Queen Cell[69]
20.Queen Cells in situ[70]
21.Hind-leg of a Bee[73]
22.Nervous System of Privet Hawk Moth[81]
23.Nervous System of Larva of Bee [82]
24.Nervous System of Perfect Insect[83]
25.Eyes of a Bee (greatly magnified)[85]
26.Facets of Eye of a Bee[86]
27.Head of Bee, With Antennæ[98]
28.Lower Segments of Hind-leg of Bee, considerably enlarged[110]
29.Complete Hind-leg of Bee[110]
30.Wing of Bee[112]
31.Hooklets of a Bee's Wing[113]
32.Abdomen of Bee, showing Respiratory Organs[116]
33.Air-sacs of Worker[117]
34.a, Air-sacs; b, Ovaries, of the Queen[118]
35.a, Tracheæ; b, Elastic Spiral of Tracheæ[119]
36.Under Side of Abdomen, showing Wax Scales[121]
37.Bee, showing the Wax Scales[121]
38.Scales[121]
39.Ovaries and Spermatheca of Queen[123]
40.Sting of a Bee (greatly magnified)[125]
41.Barbs of a Bee's Sting (very highly magnified)[126]
42.The Enemies of Bees[141]
43.Straw Skep[150]
44.Flat-topped Hive and Straw Super[151]
45.Neighbour's Improved Cottager's Hive[152]
46. " " "[153]
47.Modern Hives. Nutt's Collateral Hive in the Foreground[155]
48.The Woodbury Hive[157]
49.Woodbury Straw Bar-frame Hive[157]
50.Cheshire's Bar-frame Hive[159]
51.Cheshire's Bar-frame Hive (sectional view)[160]
52.Abbott's Standard Frame[161]
53. " " (top view)[161]
54.Neighbour's Sectional Super (open)[162]
55.Frame Super[162]
56.Glass Frame Hive, with Super[163]
57.Stewarton Hive[165]
58.The Carr-Stewarton Hive [167]
59.Unicomb Observatory Hive[168]
60.A Swarm[173]
61."Tanging"[174]
62.Hiving a Swarm[179]
63.Swarming Board[192]
64.Queen Cage over Sealed Cell[197]
65.Inserted Queen Cell[198]
66.Bottle Feeder[202]
67.Cheshire's Feeding Stage[203]
68.Can Feeder[205]
69.Round Tin Feeder[205]
70.Epilobium Angustifolium. (Young Bloom)[248]
71. " " (Old Bloom)[248]
72.Cineraria (magnified)[250]
73.Tropœolum Majus. (Young Bloom)[252]
74. " " (Old Bloom)[252]
75.Section of Scrophularia Nodosa[254]
76.Scrophularia Nodosa. (Young Bloom)[254]
77. " " (Old Bloom)[254]
78.Salvia Officinalis. (New Bloom)[255]
79. " " (Old Bloom)[255]
80.a, Erica Tetralix. b, Anther of Tetralix[255]
81.Section of Strawberry Bloom[256]
82.Section of Apple Bloom[257]

THE HONEY-BEE.

ERRATA.