Increase of Colonies 171
Swarming 171
Hiving Swarms 173
To Prevent Second Swarms 175
To Prevent Swarming 176
How Best to Increase 177
Dividing 177
How to Divide 177
CHAPTER XI.
Italians and Italianizing 180
All Should Keep Only Italians 183
How to Italianize 183
How to Introduce a Queen 183
To Get Italian Queens 185
Rearing and Shipping Queens 186
To Ship Queens 186
To Move Colonies 187
CHAPTER XII.
Extracting and the Extractors 188
Honey Extractor 188
What Style to Buy 189
Use of the Extractor 191
When to use the Extractor 192
How to Extract 194
CHAPTER XIII.
Handling Bees 195
The Best Bee Veil 196
To Quiet Bees 197
Bellows Smoker 198
The Quinby Smoker 198
The Bingham Smoker 199
How to Smoke Bees 201
To Cure Stings 201
The Sweat Theory 201
CHAPTER XIV.
Comb Foundation 203
History 203
American Foundation 204
How Foundation is Made 206
To Secure the Wax Sheets 206
Use of Foundation 207
To Fasten the Foundation 209
Save the Wax 211
Methods 211
CHAPTER XV.
Marketing Honey 213
How to Invigorate the Market 213
Extracted Honey 214
How to Tempt the Consumer 214
Comb Honey 215
Rules to be Observed 215
CHAPTER XVI.
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