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 apiarianNeighbor, Alfred
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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
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.
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