Description - How to Keep Bees; A Handbook for the Use of Beginners by Anna Botsford Comstock
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX ABC of Bee Culture, 309. Abdomen, 189. Achroia grissella, 175. After-swarms led by virgin queen, 79, 81. prevention of, 81. reason of and remedy for, 79, 81. Alder, 154. Alexander method of dividing swarms, 78. Alfalfa, 303. Alighting board, 15. Alimentary canal, 189, 193, Plate XXV. Alley's queen and drone trap, 13. Alsike, 303. Anatomy, external, .183, Plate XXV. internal, 189, Plate XXV. Antenna cleaner, 188, Plate VII. Antenna, 185, Plate VII. Apiaries, floating, 311. out, 311. Apiary, high fence for, in city, 33. in village garden, 33. location and arrangement of, 3a mowing the, 33. old-fashioned, Plate XXVII. old orchard good place for, 30. on city house tops, 33. sheep in, 33. windbreak for, 33. Apparatus for extracting, Plate xvm. Apple, 198. Apple blossoms, Plate XVII. Apricot, 198. Aristotle, 173, 309. Artificial pasturage, 301. Asters, 306. Bacillus larva, 176. fiuton, 177. Balling of queen, 33,158. Bass wood, 300. blossoms, Plate XXX. Bee, anatomy of, 183. books, 308. brush, Plate III. Brush, Bristle, 19. brush, use of, 1o1. cellars, for wintering, 151. gloves, 11, 17. glue, its source, 60, 61. glue made from varnish and cement, 61. glue, various uses of, 63. house-keepers, 34. how she gathers pollen, 59. how she collects propolis, 63. Journal, 308. larva?, diseases of, 176. moth, larger wax, 173. moth, lesser wax, 175. moth, development of, 173. moth, how to detect, 173. moth, maxims, 175. moth, remedy for, 174. tent, 103, 16S. tree, 316. veil, 11, 16. weight of honey carried by each, 76. Bee--Continued worker, 3Q. worker, brains of, 40. worker--life and habits of, 43, 43. worker, sex of, 39. Bee-bread, 59. as food, 60. in cells, 98. Bee-escape, Plate III. Porter, 18. Porter, use of, 1oi. Bee-gum, 83. Bee-hunting, 313....
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