Feeding 54, 64, 75, 79, 140, 143 Feet of bees 42 Food necessary (_note_) 140 Foul brood 232 Frames 89 ---- should hang true 91 ---- how kept perpendicular 91 ---- manipulation with 157 French bishop, anecdote of 240 Fructifying flowers, bees useful for 194 Fumigator box 145 ---- tube 147 G. Gardeners ought to be bee-keepers 247 General remarks 238 Glasses, bell 133, 154 ---- must be kept warm 65 Guide-comb for glasses 135 ---- for bars 68, 97 ---- _note_ 161 H. Hive should be ready for swarm 27, 71, 250 Hives, _see_ Bee-hives. Hearing of bees, sense of 38 Honey-bag (Plate II, figs. 1 and 2) 44 ---- way to drain from comb 230 ---- cutters 145 ---- dew 199 Human breath obnoxious 147 Huber (Francis), life of 121 I. Improved cottage-hive 68 ---- comb-bar 90 Impressed wax sheets 151 Impregnation of queen 6, 13 Increase of bees 18 India-rubber gloves 27, 149, 159 Insects, cleansing hives from 125 Interchange of combs for strengthening weak hives 92, 168 Italian Alp Bee (Plate I, figs. 1, 2, 3), not all of them yellow 33 ---- description of 200 ---- German bee-keeper's opinion 203 ---- great honey-collecting powers 203 ---- Hermann's book on 205 ---- introduction into England 203 ---- importation of queens unsuccessful in many instances 206 ---- plan of uniting foreign queens to English stocks (_note_) 207 J.