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INDEX.
[ A ][ B ][ C ][ D ][ E ][ F ][ G ][ H ]
[ I ][ J ][ K ][ L ][ M ][ N ][ O ][ P ]
[ Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ Z ]
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| PAGE. | |
| A. | |
| Acclimatising bees | 213, 249 |
| Adapting-board | 96, 162, 183 |
| Age of bees | 10, 11 |
| Anatomy of bees (Plates I and a), description of | 31 |
| Anecdotes of, | 240, 242, 245, 246 |
| Anger of bees | 149, 163, 190 |
| Antennæ (Plate I) | 38 |
| —— act as a barometer | 39 |
| Apiary, best time to set up an | 21 |
| —— exterior and interior of an | 138, 139 |
| Artificial swarming | 169, 182 |
| —— time for | 171 |
| Artificial comb | 157 |
| Aspect | 64, 248 |
| Australia, sending bees to | 213 |
| B. | |
| Baby-bee, cradle of | 16 |
| —— emerging from the cell | 17 |
| Bar, improved | 90 |
| Bar and frame-hives | 84 |
| —— manipulation of | 15 |
| —— advantages of | 168, 174, 178 |
| —— changing after winter | 178 |
| —— recommended | 243 |
| Bee-dress or protector | 27, 115, 148, 170 |
| —— necessity for | 149, 165 |
| Bee-decoy, to attract swarms | 25 |
| Bees live in society | 3 |
| —— lesson to man | 11 |
| —— young | 17 |
| —— cluster outside hives | 23 |
| —— peaceful whilst swarming | 27 |
| —— should not be fed in winter | 141 |
| —— tempted to rob | 140 |
| —— reduced size of | 168 |
| —— at the International Exhibition of 1862 | 213 |
| —— breath, human, obnoxious to | 149, 190 |
| —— artificial scent ditto | 190 |
| Bee-keeping in London | 215 |
| —— Zoological and Horticultural Gardens | 221 |
| Bee-keeping, profit arising from | 239 |
| Bee-hives (modern):— | |
| Huber's book or leaf hive | 118 |
| Neighbour's cottager's:— | |
| Description of | 80 |
| Neighbour's improved cottage:— | |
| Description of | 68 |
| Care necessary to keep a good store of food | 75 |
| Neighbour's improved cottage without window:— | |
| Description of | 76 |
| Neighbour's unicomb observatory:— | |
| Description and application of | 98 |
| Exhibited in Paris, 1855 | 101 |
| Prize medal | 101 |
| Neighbour's single-box:— | |
| Description of and directions for | 63 |
| Keep glass warm | 65 |
| Nutt's collateral:— | |
| Description of | 51 |
| Taking surplus honey | 58 |
| Stewarton hive:— | |
| Description of | 109 |
| Directions for management | 112 |
| Nadir box, value of | 117 |
| Extra boxes required | 118 |
| Taylor's improved cottage:— | |
| Description of | 96 |
| Taylor's amateur's eight-bar wood:— | |
| Description of | 65 |
| Stand for ditto | 67 |
| Taylor's eight-bar straw | 96 |
| Woodbury bar and frame:— | |
| Description of | 84 |
| Straw ditto | 85 |
| Glass ditto | 88 |
| Special advantages of straw | 86 |
| Origin of | 86 |
| Manipulation with | 157 |
| Super | 93 |
| Putting on | 162 |
| Woodbury Unicomb:— | |
| Construction of | 102 |
| Modes of tenanting | 106, 107 |
| How transferred to box-hive | 108 |
| Bee-houses, advantage of | 123 |
| —— engravings of houses to contain twelve hives | 126, 127 |
| —— object of colouring alighting-boards | 126 |
| —— loss of queens | 127 |
| Bee-house to contain nine hives, engraving | 128 |
| Bell-glasses | 133 |
| Bottle-feeder | 140 |
| —— directions for using | 142 |
| Breathing of bees | 43 |
| Brood, royal | 9, 175, 179 |
| —— wire cover for (engraving of) | 175 |
| C. | |
| Cells, contracted size of | 168 |
| Cells, royal, see Brood. | |
| Changing old stocks to new hives not to be attempted by inexperienced | 182 |
| —— old hives into humane ones | 183 |
| —— old stocks to frame-hives | 184 |
| Classes for whom bee-keeping has interest | 1 |
| Combs, value of | 152 |
| —— must not be jarred | 149 |
| —— how fixed in frames | 160 |
| —— ensuring regularity of | 67, 90, 152, 161, (note) 184 |
| —— artificial, description of | 151 |
| —— how fixed in frames | 160 |
| Compound bar-frame | 91 |
| Cottagers, way to convince, of the humane system | 139 |
| Cover for square hives | 67, 55 |
| —— for round hives | 81, 131, 132 |
| Crown-board | 34, 87 |
| D. | |
| Dampness in hives in winter injurious | 75, 86, 148 |
| Depriving system, special advantages of | 19, 82 |
| Diseases of bees | 231 |
| Dividing hives, reason why they do not answer | 173 |
| Driving bees, directions for | 179 |
| Drone, description of | 11 |
| Drones, massacre of | 14 |
| Dysentery | 215, 232 |
| E. | |
| Eggs of bees (Plate 2, fig. 7) | 16 |
| —— how made into queens | 15 |
| —— position in the hive | 16 |
| —— time hatching | 17 |
| Engraved pressing roller | 150 |
| Entrance to hives | 52, 74, 86 |
| —— stopped, danger therefrom | 250 |
| Epitaph on brimstoned bees | 20 |
| Evans, poet of the bees (note on) | 4 |
| —— 'poetry of,' | 7, 11, 12, 23, 24, 142 |
| Evening thoughts in January | 129 |
| F. | |
| Feeding | 54, 64, 75, 79, 140, 143 |
| Feet of bees | 42 |
| Food necessary (note) | 140 |
| Foul brood | 232 |
| Frames | 89 |
| —— should hang true | 91 |
| —— how kept perpendicular | 91 |
| —— manipulation with | 157 |
| French bishop, anecdote of | 240 |
| Fructifying flowers, bees useful for | 194 |
| Fumigator box | 145 |
| —— tube | 147 |
| G. |
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| Gardeners ought to be bee-keepers | 247 |
| General remarks | 238 |
| Glasses, bell | 133, 154 |
| —— must be kept warm | 65 |
| Guide-comb for glasses | 135 |
| —— for bars | 68, 97 |
| —— note | 161 |
| H. | |
| Hive should be ready for swarm | 27, 71, 250 |
| Hives, see Bee-hives. | |
| Hearing of bees, sense of | 38 |
| Honey-bag (Plate II, figs. 1 and 2) | 44 |
| —— way to drain from comb | 230 |
| —— cutters | 145 |
| —— dew | 199 |
| Human breath obnoxious | 147 |
| Huber (Francis), life of | 121 |
| I. | |
| Improved cottage-hive | 68 |
| —— comb-bar | 90 |
| Impressed wax sheets | 151 |
| Impregnation of queen | 6, 13 |
| Increase of bees | 18 |
| India-rubber gloves | 27, 149, 159 |
| Insects, cleansing hives from | 125 |
| Interchange of combs for strengthening weak hives | 92, 168 |
| Italian Alp Bee (Plate I, figs. 1, 2, 3), not all of them yellow | 33 |
| —— description of | 200 |
| —— German bee-keeper's opinion | 203 |
| —— great honey-collecting powers | 203 |
| —— Hermann's book on | 205 |
| —— introduction into England | 203 |
| —— importation of queens unsuccessful in many instances | 206 |
| —— plan of uniting foreign queens to English stocks | (note) 207 |
| J. | |
| Journal of Horticulture, | 208, 217 |
| K. | |
| Keeping bell-glasses warm | 65 |
| —— boxes | 116 |
| L. | |
| Legs of bees | 40 |
| Ligurian honey-bee, see Italian Bee. | |
| Loyalty of bees | 5, 99, 104 |
| M. | |
| Mortar not necessary for closing crevices | 82 |
| Moths, how to prevent | 228 |
| N. | |
| Neglect of bee-keeping | 1 |
| Neighbour's hives, see Bee-hives. | |
| New bottle-feeder | 140 |
| Number of eggs in the season | 5 |
| Nutt's hive, see Bee-hives | |
| Nutt, Thos. (the late) | 60 |
| O. | |
| Ornamental zinc cover | 131 |
| P. | |
| Pasturage for bees | 197 |
| —— honey yielding flowers | 198 |
| —— wild flowers best | 199 |
| Poison of sting | 48 |
| Pollen, food for infant-bees | 193 |
| —— how collected | 193, 194 |
| —— brush (Plate I, fig. 1, 2b.) | |
| —— basket, 2b*, description of | 41 |
| Putting in super-hives and bell-glasses, | 56, 64, 65, 72, 79, 81, 83, 110, 113 |
| Propolis, or bees' cement | 195 |
| Q. | |
| Queen (Plate I, fig. 1), description of | 4 |
| —— movements of, laying eggs | 5 |
| Queen, marriage day | 7, 13, 177 |
| —— attachment of bees to | 7 |
| —— disrespect until fertile | 8 |
| —— jealousy of her rivals | 8, 175 |
| —— dismay of bees at loss of | 9 |
| —— raised from worker | 10 |
| —— longevity of | 10 |
| —— old one goes with first swarm | 22 |
| —— leaves the hive only in fine weather | 23 |
| —— in super-hives | 59, 83 |
| —— loss of | 9, 127, 174 |
| R. | |
| Roller, engraved pressing | 150 |
| Robber-bees | 140 |
| Royal brood | 9, 175 |
| S. | |
| Spiracles | 41 |
| Spring, good time to commence bee-keeping | 21 |
| Sprinkling bees | 146, 165 |
| Stands for hives— | |
| —— engravings | 62, 69 |
| —— for Nutt's | 84 |
| —— Woodbury | 54, 94 |
| —— Stewarton hive, see Bee-hives. | |
| Sting of worker-bee, (Plate II, fig. 4) | 46, 189 |
| —— queen | 5, 8 |
| Stocks, ventilated for travelling | 251 |
| —— why called so | 162 |
| —— best kept strong | 19, 57, 117 |
| Stomach (Plate II, figs, 1 and 2 hh) | 44, 45 |
| Supers, glass | 133, 134, 135 |
| —— straw | 81 |
| —— for Woodbury hives, engraving | 93, 162 |
| Superstitions | 245 |
| Swarming, usual time of year for | 21 |
| —— cause of | 22 |
| —— agitation before | 23 |
| —— usual time of day for | 24 |
| —— desirable to prevent | 30, 56 |
| —— consequence of a second flight of | 26 |
| —— how to hive | 28, 71 |
| —— means of preventing second flight | 26 |
| —— two sometimes depart from their respective hives at same time, and mingle |
27 |
| —— care to prevent loss of | 26 |
| —— time for removing | 28 |
| —— care to be exercised with | 53, 64, 71 |
| —— first most valuable | 29 |
| —— second, cause of | 29 |
| —— how to restore | 30 |
| —— premonitory symptoms of | 29 |
| T. | |
| Taking honey | 58, 73, 115, 163 |
| Taylor's hives, see Bee-hives | 21 |
| Thomson's "Seasons," extract from | 21 |
| Thorax (Plate II, fig. 1) | 40 |
| U. | |
| Unicomb hives | 6, 17, 97, 102 |
| V. | |
| Ventilation | 51, 71, 73, 124, 249 |
| W. | |
| Wasps, how to prevent the increase of | 223 |
| —— attack of | 225 |
| Water essential | 200 |
| Weighing hives, importance of | 185 |
| —— engraving of Salter's spring balance | 186 |
| Wildman | 215 |
| —— marvellous feats of | 217 |
| Woodbury hives, see Bee-hives. | |
| —— super, see Supers. | |
| Worker-bee, description of | 15 |
| —— number in a hive | 15, 28 |
| Z. | |
| Zinc covers | 131, 132 |
NEIGHBOUR'S
IMPROVED BEE-HIVES,
FOR
TAKING HONEY WITHOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BEES.