AIR-ORGANS of bee, 9, 14 Alighting board, 26, 81 Ammonia as remedy for bee-sting, 19 Antennæ of bee, uses of, 15 Ants in hives, 114 Aphis and bees, 116 Artificial pollen, 85 Autumn feeding, 87-8 B BAR frame, advantages of, 28; how to handle, in hive, 60, 74 Bar-framed hive, working for profit and, 4; comb formation and, 35; how to transport, 81; essential to profit-making, 93; how to work, 92 _et seq._ "Bee-bread," 56 Bee escapes, 32 Bees, as heat producers in hive, 5; and swarming, 8, 44, 68; metamorphosis of, 13; anatomy of, 13-9; sting of, 18; and fowls, 19; stingless, 19; scent of, 46-7; and comb-making, 50; and varnish, 51; and cross fertilisation of flowers, 53; and honey gathering, 54-5; and pollen, 56-7; treatment of chilled, 58; manipulation of, 58-9; how to stimulate, 65; and reserve food, 72, 81; how to drive, 79; how to transport, 81; when food is declined by, 89; diseases of, 106 _et seq._; enemies of, 112 _et seq._ Bees-wax, how formed, 49-50, 92; value of, 104; how to melt and sort, 104-5 Birds and the bee-keeper, 117 Blind louse and bees, 115 Blue-bag as remedy for bee sting, 9 Blue-tit and bees, 118 Brood-chamber, 26; when to expand, 61; standard frames from, as super, 73 Brood-nest, choked, treatment of, 67 Brood-rearing, artificial feeding, and, 66; time of commencement of, 66; use of old honey stores in, 90-1 Brushes, best form of, 41 C CALICO, unbleached, for quilt, 33 Camphor, use of, in hives, 42, 96, 114 Canadian feeders, 37 Candy, for winter feeding, 88 Carbolic acid, use of, as disinfectant, 42 Carbolic cloths, how to use, 40-1 Carr, W. B., and "self spacers," 28, 29 Cells, queen, 6, 8, 74; drone, cappings of, 12, 13; shapes of, 49 Cheese-cloth as strainer, 100 Chilled brood, 110 Chyle food, 7, 9, 50-1 Cleanliness, necessity for, 38, 61, 71, 107 Comb-foundation, and drone rearing, 12; varieties of, and how to use, 35; how to use old, 36; and wax-making, 50; how to use, 92-3; handling of hives containing, 94 Confidence, necessity for, 58 D DISINFECTANTS, 42 Doubling stocks, method of, 62 Driven bees, taking old queen from, 65 Driving, method of, 79 Drone, the, and mating, 7, 11; life history of, 11; how to keep down number of, 12; period of incubation of, 13; comb-foundation and breeding of, 35; cells of, 49; means of escape from super for, 74 Dummy, how used, 32, 61 Dysentery, symptoms of, and remedy for, 108 E EARWIG and bees, 112 Embedder, a simple, 94 Enemies of bees, 112 Excessive swarming, remedy for, 73 Excluder, zinc, 36, 74, 76 Extractor, necessity for, 38; how to work, 98-9 Eyes of bee, 16 F