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220 *Bee-escape, Plate III.
 * Porter, 18.
 * Porter, use of, 101.
 * Bee-gum, 83.
 * Bee-hunting, 211.
 * Bee-keepers, 206.
 * books written by, 9.
 * number of, 207.
 * Bee-keepers' supplies, catalogue of, 10.
 * Bee-keeping, 206.
 * a beginner's order, 11.
 * as a regular business, 10.
 * attractive materials of, 85.
 * how to begin, 8.
 * too successful, 73.
 * worst way to begin, 10.
 * Bees, as a recreation, 5.
 * as socialists, 6.
 * a study in natural science, 6.
 * belong to the garden, 7.
 * control population, 34.
 * diseases of, 176.
 * enemies and diseases of, 172.
 * feeding of, 136.
 * German or black, 12, 47.
 * how they collect propolis, 60, 61.
 * how they secrete wax, 52.
 * how to handle them, 91.
 * how to keep from keeping too many, 73.
 * how to manage when swarming, 66.
 * how to reconcile swarm to new hive, 70.
 * how to unite colonies, 82.
 * how to winter, 145.
 * how to work with, 92.
 * hybrids, 48.
 * Italian, 12, 13.
 * Italian and black bees compared, 48.
 * Italian, Mr. Root's test for, 48.
 * keep for sake of honey, 4.
 * keep for sake of money, 4.
 * legends and literature of, 3.
 * races of, 12.
 * races of domestic, 47.
 * reasons why one should keep, 3.
 * relations to plants, 194.
 * robbing, 164.
 * secreting wax, Plate X.
 * sense of smell, 92.
 * swarming of, 64.
 * telling the, 61.
 * watering, 143.
 * when they swarm, 65.
 * why they swarm, 64.
 * wild, 47.
 * Beeswax, adulterated, 126, 134.
 * clarified by vinegar, 128.
 * how to make it, 126.
 * its value, 126.
 * maxims for making, 135.
 * press, 132.
 * primitive method of rendering, 127.
 * refining of, 134.
 * rendered in wash boiler, 129.
 * Beeswax-extractors, 130.
 * Black brood, 179.
 * Blue thistle, 204.
 * Boardman wax extractor, 130, 131.
 * Body wall, 181, Plate XXV.
 * Bonnet, 207.
 * Borage, 204.
 * Bottom board, 83.
 * Box elder in blossom, Plate XXX.
 * Box hives, 83, 208.
 * Brain, 188, Plate XXV.
 * Brimstoning bees, 208.
 * Brood, black, 179.
 * foul, 176.
 * foundation, 17.
 * how to examine, 97.
 * pickled, 179.
 * Brood chamber, 83.
 * how to examine, 95.
 * size of, 14.
 * Brood frame, Langstroth, how much honey it will hold, 146.