Spiracles 41 Spring, good time to commence bee-keeping 21 Sprinkling bees 146, 165 Stands for hives-- ---- engravings 62, 69 ---- for Nutt's 84 ---- Woodbury 54, 94 ---- Stewarton hive, _see_ Bee-hives. Sting of worker-bee, (Plate II, fig. 4) 46, 189 ---- queen 5, 8 Stocks, ventilated for travelling 251 ---- why called so 162 ---- best kept strong 19, 57, 117 Stomach (Plate II, figs, 1 and 2 _hh_) 44, 45 Supers, glass 133, 134, 135 ---- straw 81 ---- for Woodbury hives, engraving 93, 162 Superstitions 245 Swarming, usual time of year for 21 ---- cause of 22 ---- agitation before 23 ---- usual time of day for 24 ---- desirable to prevent 30, 56 ---- consequence of a second flight of 26 ---- how to hive 28, 71 ---- means of preventing second flight 26 ---- two sometimes depart from their respective hives at same time, and mingle 27 ---- care to prevent loss of 26 ---- time for removing 28 ---- care to be exercised with 53, 64, 71 ---- first most valuable 29 ---- second, cause of 29 ---- how to restore 30 ---- premonitory symptoms of 29 T. Taking honey 58, 73, 115, 163 Taylor's hives, _see_ Bee-hives 21 Thomson's "Seasons," extract from 21 Thorax (Plate II, fig. 1) 40 U. Unicomb hives 6, 17, 97, 102 V. Ventilation 51, 71, 73, 124, 249 W.