FANNING as a sign of trouble in hive, 17, 107 Feeders, varieties of, and how to use, 37 Feeding, circumstances in which it is useless, 5; varieties of feeders, 37; use of propolis in, 52; when necessary, 61, 81; weak stocks, 63; inside, 64; to encourage brood rearing, 66; after supering from brood-chamber, 75; necessity of, in spring, 82; method of, in spring, 83; syrup food, 84; artificial pollen food, 85; water in, 85; when to stop, in spring, 86; in autumn, 86; in winter, 88; injurious, 107; in cases of suspected disease, 109 Fermentation in hive, 18, 90 Float-feeders, 37 Flowers and bees, 53 Flycatcher and bees, 119 Formic acid, in bee sting, 19 Fold brood, 18; symptoms of, 107 Fuel for smoker, 40 G GLOVES, use of, 43, 59 Green-fly and bees, 115 H HEATHER honey, shallow frames and, 30; colour and flavour of, 55; extraction of, 56 Hive, bees as heat producers in, 5; bees and ventilation of, 17; hints on selection of, 21; the skep, 22; disadvantages of wooden, 24; size of, 25; floorboard of, 26; brood-chamber, 26; queen-rearing, 33, 75; observation, 34; scent of, 46; position of, 58; how and when to clean, 61; weak, 61; for swarm, 71; re-queening of, 75, 77; transport of, 81; heating when bees are starved in, 90; dangers of fermenting food in, 90; use of old honey-stores in, 90-1; mice in, 18, 113 Honey, what it is, 48; flowers and nectar for, 54; influence of source of on colour, 55; flavour of, 55; formation and sealing of, 96; extraction of, 97-9; ripening, 99; straining, 100-2; storing and bottling, 103; marketing, 103 Honeycomb, composition and purpose of, 48-9; care of, 95,96; removal from hive of, 96-7 Honey dew, 116 Honey press, 39 I "IMPS" for skep hive, 23 Incubation, period of, 13 Isle of Wight disease, 108 J JAWS of bee, how used, 17 L Lime honey, colour of, 55 M METAMORPHOSIS of bees, 13 Methylated spirit, as remedy for bee sting, 19; bees' objection to, 19, 51 Mice and hives, 18, 113 Mildew, in honeycombs, 96; in quilts, 107 Modern methods, necessity for, 3 Montbretia leaves, brushes of, 41 Moths in hives, 114 N NAPHTHALENE as disinfectant and insecticide, 42, 96, 114 "Nucleus" hives, 33 O OBSERVATION hives, 34 Onion as remedy for bee-sting, 19 Outside feeding, advantages of, 83; method of, 83-4; in cases of suspected disease, 109-10 P POLLEN, and worker bees, 10; bees as transferrers of, 53; how used by bees, 56; artificial, 85 Pollen-baskets of bee, 16, 56 Pollen mites, 115 Porter escape, 32 Prevention of swarming, 72 Profit, necessities to secure, 3, 36, 38 Propolis, on old quilts, 33, 52; what it is, 51; excess of, 51-2; use of, in artificial feeding, 52, 85 Q