usual number in a hive 3 Braggot, or common mead 245 Breeding, commencement of 37 signs of 118 early, to promote 119 Hubbard's opinion of 117 Cells, construction of. _Vide_ Architecture. Chrysalis. _Vide_ Pupa. Circulation 271 Clustering 123 Cocoons 11, 12 Cold, effect of on bees 117 in diminishing the consumption of honey 185 Combs, construction of 340 constructed sometimes under resting-boards 125 Comparative advantages of storifying and single-hiving 122 of wooden boxes and straw-hives 100 Deprivation 162 to be exercised cautiously 163 possible accident at the time of 165 modes of performing 167 Isaac's 170 Keys's 170 Dovaston's 171 Evans's 172 proper periods for 162 Diseases of bees 184 Dysentery 188 Vertigo 189 Tumefaction of Antennæ 192 Pestilence or _Faux Couvain_ _ib._ probable causes of _ib._ remedies _ib._ preventive 195 review of different theories of _ib._ Dividers and other implements 107 their use in deprivation 167 Drones, their use 5, 30 evolution of _ab ovo_ 14 massacre of 43 how effected 44 not found in all swarms 4