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The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1865] / Being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of management, with full directions, adapted for the cottager, farmer, or scientific apiarian cover

The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1865] / Being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of management, with full directions, adapted for the cottager, farmer, or scientific apiarian

Chapter 9: INDEX.
By Alfred Neighbor
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A practical manual combining natural history of hive inhabitants and clear explanations of brood, swarming, and colony behavior with an extensive survey of contemporary hive designs and apiary apparatus. It offers step-by-step guidance for using bar-and-frame and single-box hives, techniques for managing swarms, feeding, transferring stock, extracting honey, and treating stings and pests, emphasizing humane, productivity-enhancing methods. Additional sections cover apiary layout, tools and feeders, forage considerations and varied bee strains, and close with testimonials and general remarks, all aimed at enabling beginners and experienced apiarists to adopt modern, hands-on management practices.

INDEX.

[ A ][ B ][ C ][ D ][ E ][ F ][ G ]
[ H ][ I ][ J ][ K ][ L ][ M ][ N ]
[ P ][ Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ V ][ W ]
PAGE.
A.
Adapting board 76, 115, 116
Age of bees 6
Anger of bees 76, 89
Apiary, best time to set up 11
    "      Exterior and interior of 58
Artificial Swarming 79
    Right time for 80, 81
    Directions for performing the operation of 80, 81
Artificial Swarms, how should be placed 83
Aspect 25, 114, 115
Australia, sending bees to 100, 101
B.
Baby bee, cradle of 9
        "       emerging from the cell 9
Bath and West of England Journal 97, 99
    "          "         "             Agricultural Shows 47, 48, 124, 125, 126
Bee dress 68, 74
      "      Necessity for 69, 77
Bees, reduced size of 79
    "     Human breath obnoxious to 89
    "     Artificial scent objectionable 89
Bee Hives (Modern).
Neighbour's Cottager's:—
    Description of 34
    Putting on super 35, 36
    Time for removal of 36
    Depositing eggs in super 36
Neighbour's Improved Cottage (No. 5):—
    Description of 28
    Directions for 29
    Weight 27
Neighbour's Improved Cottage (No. 6) 31
Neighbour's Ladies' Observatory or Crystal Hive:—
    Description of 32
    Feeding 33
    Light not to be admitted at first 33
    Mode of fixing 32, 33
      "    stocking 33
    Protection from cold 33
    Use of frame work 33
    Weight 32
Neighbour's Unicomb Observatory:—
    Construction and application 44
    Mode of stocking 44
    How kept warm 46
    How exhibited at Paris 45
    Prize Medal for 45
Neighbour's Single Box:—
    Description of and directions for 24, 25
Nutt's Collateral:—
    Description of 17, 18
    Means of ventilation 21
    Mode of stocking 19, 20
            "     taking surplus honey 21, 22
    Feeding 19
    Shed necessary 19
    The late Thomas Nutt 23
Taylor's Improved Cottage:—
    Description of 43
Taylor's Eight-bar Straw Hive:—
    Description of 43
Taylor's Amateur Eight-bar 26, 29
  "    "    Seven-bar 27
Woodbury Bar and Frame:—
    Description of 36
    Glass Bar and Frame 38
    Straw Bar and Frame, description of 37
    Special advantage of 37
    Origin of 37
    Directions for stocking 73, 74
Woodbury Unicomb:— Construction of 46
    Inspection of queen 47
    How fixed 48
    Answering 48, 49
    Mode of stocking 48, 49
    Bees removed before Winter 4
Huber's Book or Leaf, description of 50, 51
Bee Houses.
    Advantage of 53, 54
    Description of, to contain two hives 53
    Furnished with lock and key 54
    How hives are placed in 54
    Plan for excluding insects 54
    Description of, to contain twelve hives 55
    Object of colouring alighting board 55
    Bees mistaking entrance 55, 56
    Loss of queens 56
Bee-house to contain nine hives, why not recommended 56
Bee-keeping, inexpensive and profitable 113
Bee-keeping in London 102
    St. James's Place 105
    Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park 105
    St. John's Wood and suburbs of London 105
    G. Neighbour and Sons' London Apiary 104
    Seasons, 1863, 1864, favorable for 106
Bee-keeper should be a book-keeper 111
C.
Cells, contracted size of 79
Changing old stocks into new hives:—
    Not to be attempted by the inexperienced 86
    Adaptation of old hive to the depriving system 86
    Directions for transferring stocks into frame hives 87
Classes for whom bee-keeping is suited 1
Combs, artificial 70
    Value of 70
    Mode of applying 71, 72
    Must not be jarred 69
    Taken from bar and frame hives 75, 79
    Fixing in frames 75
    Ensuring regularity of 27
Compound Bar and Frame 40
Cottagers, way to convince of the humane system 111
Cottagers' hive 34
Cover for bar and frame hive, description of 41, 42
    Zinc 59, 60
    Ornamental zinc 59
    Straw hackle 35
Crown board 74, 76
D.
Dampness in hives in winter injurious 33, 115
Depriving System:—
    Special advantages of 10, 35
    Practiced in ancient Greece and Italy 10
    Profit to be derived from 111, 112
Dividing hives, reason why they do not answer 82
Dressing hives inside with sweet not needful 35
Driving bees, directions for 84, 85
Drones, sex of 6
    Purpose of 7
    Reason for numbers in hive 7
    General massacre of 7
    All die before winter 8
E.
Eggs of bees:—
    Description of 9
    In supers 36
Entrance to hives 18, 31, 37
Epitaph on murdered bees 11
Evans, note on page, extract from 3, 4, 5, 12, 13
Evening thoughts in January, a poem 56, 57
F.
Feeding 19, 25, 31, 33, 63, 64
Feeder (Bottle) 63
            (Nutt's) 66
            (Round) 65
            (Fountain) 65
Frame:—
    Description of 39
    Mr. "Woodbury's improvement 40
    How kept perpendicular 39, 40
    Taking out with combs 76
    Direction for handling frames 77, 78
    Placing frames in hives 78
French Bishop visiting a Cure (anecdote) 111, 112
Fructifying flowers, bees useful for 91
Fumigation, directions for 66, 67, 68
Fumigators 66, 67, 68
G.
General remarks 110 to 116
Glasses, bell 60, 61, 62
Great Exhibition of 1851, Testimonials of the press 119, 120, 121
Guide comb 27
    "     for glasses 61, 62
H.
Hives—see Bee-hives 106
    Large number may be kept 112
Hive should be ready for swarm 15, 115
Honey cutters 66
Honey Dew 94
Honey, directions for draining from combs 110
    Keeping honey in the comb at a warm temperature 110
    Huber (Francis), extract from Memoirs of 51
I.
Improved cottage hive 31
Improved comb bar 39
Increase of bees 9
India-rubber gloves 74
Impregnation of queen 3
Insects that are injurious 83, 107
Insects, cleansing hives from 83
Interchange of combs for strengthening weak hives 79
Italian honey bee 93, 94, 95
    Description of 96
    Great honey collecting powers 96, 97
    Opinions of German bee-masters 96
    Introduction into England 97
    Hermann's book on 97, 98
    Physical characteristics of 98
    Importation of queens in many instances unsuccessful 99
    Transporting stocks to Australia 100, 101
    At the International Exhibition 70, 100, 101, 121, 122, 123, 124
J.
Journal of Horticulture 99
K.
Keeping bell glasses warm 25
L.
Ligurian honey bee (see Italian bee)
Loyalty of bees 4
M.
Mortar, not necessary for closing crevices 35
Moths, how entrance is effected 109
    How to destroy eggs of 109
N.
Neglect of bee-keeping 1
Neighbour's hives (see Bee-hives).
Number of eggs in the season 3
Nutt's hives (see Bee-hives)
P.
Pasturage for bees 93, 94
    Honey yielding flowers 93, 94
    Wild flowers best 94
Pollen, food for infant bees 91
    How collected 91
    Rye meal a substitute for farina from flowers 91
Propolis, or bees' cement 92
    How obtained 92, 93
    Application of 93
    Anecdote illustrating use of 93
Putting on super hive or bell glasses 20, 25, 29, 36, 75
Q.
Queen:—
    Description of 2
    Movements of, laying eggs and marriage day 3
    Honor to when fertile 4
    Combats with her rivals 4, 5
    Dismay of bees on loss of 5
    Raised from worker embryo 5
    Longevity of 6
    Old one goes with first swarm 12
    Leaves hive only in fine weather 12
    In super hives 22, 36
    Loss of 5,56
    View of 44,47
    Supplying queenless hives with 5,83
R.
Roller, engraved pressing:—
    Description of 69
    Application of 69, 70
Royal Agricultural Society's Show 48, 126, 127, 128
S.
Spring, time to begin bee-keeping 11
Spring, First flight of bees in, a poem 116, 117
Sprinkling bees 77
Stand for hives, engraving 24, 28, 36, 42
Sticks in hives not necessary 115
Super for bar and frame hives 41
    Bell glass (see Glasses)
    Straw 35, 36
Straw hives:
    Advantage of 34
    Preference for 34, 37
Swarming:—
    Usual time of year for 11
    Cause of 11
    Agitation before 12
    Provisioning for 13
    Usual time of day for 13
    Poetical description of 13
    Ringing on occasion of, needless 13
    Desirable to prevent 16
Swarms:—
    Devices for inducing settlement of 13
    Consequences of a second flight 14
    Means of preventing ditto 14
    Two sometimes depart at same time and mingle 14
    Necessity of having hives in readiness 14
    Bee dress essential 15
    Time for removing 15
    Care to be exercised when confined 18, 24, 25, 29, 30
    First swarms most valuable 16
    Second, cause of 16
    Premonitory symptoms 16
    Royal wailing indicative of 16
    Numerical composition of 16
    Third, name of 16
    Fourth, name of 16
    Care required to prevent loss of 14, 109
T.
Taking honey, mode of 21, 22
Thomson's "Seasons," extract from, on murdered bees 11
V.
Ventilation 17, 18, 20, 21, 115
W.
Wasps, how to prevent the increase of 106, 107
    Season 1864 productive of 107
Water essential 94
    Mismanagement of, during voyage 101
Weighing hives, importance of 88
    Salter's spring balance best 88
    How to judge of quantity without 88
Windows, objections to 38
Wildman 102
    Marvellous feats of 103
    Secret of success 103
Worker bee:—
    Description of 8
    Sex of 8
    Number in hive 8
    Young ones, employment of 8

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