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.