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- LANGSTROTH ON THE HIVE AND THE HONEY-BEE, A Bee Keeper's Manual,
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- ADVERTISEMENT
- INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II. THE HONEY BEE CAPABLE OF BEING TAMED OR DOMESTICATED TO A MOST SURPRISING DEGREE.
- CHAPTER III. THE QUEEN OR MOTHER-BEE, THE DRONES, AND THE WORKERS; WITH VARIOUS HIGHLY IMPORTANT FACTS IN THEIR NATURAL HISTORY.
- On the way in which the eggs of the Queen Bee are fecundated.
- Effect of Retarded Impregnation on the Queen Bee.
- Fertile Workers.
- The Drones or Male Bees.
- The Production of so many Drones Necessary, in a State of Nature, to Prevent Degeneracy from "In and In Breeding."
- The Workers or Common Bees.
- Age of Bees.
- The process of rearing the Queen more particularly described.
- Royal Jelly.
- Artificial Rearing of Queens.
- CHAPTER IV. COMB.
- CHAPTER V. PROPOLIS, OR "BEE-GLUE."
- CHAPTER VI. POLLEN, OR BEE-BREAD.
- CHAPTER VII. ON THE ADVANTAGES WHICH OUGHT TO BE FOUND IN AN IMPROVED HIVE.
- CHAPTER VIII. PROTECTION AGAINST EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD, SUDDEN AND SEVERE CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE, AND DAMPNESS IN THE HIVES.
- Protector.
- CHAPTER IX. VENTILATION OF THE HIVE.
- CHAPTER X. NATURAL SWARMING, AND HIVING OF SWARMS.
- CHAPTER X. ARTIFICIAL SWARMING.
- CHAPTER XI. THE BEE-MOTH, AND OTHER ENEMIES OF BEES. DISEASES OF BEES.
- CHAPTER XII. LOSS OF THE QUEEN.
- CHAPTER XIII. UNION OF STOCKS. TRANSFERRING BEES FROM THE COMMON HIVE. STARTING AN APIARY.
- Transferring Bees from the Common Hive to the Movable Comb Hive.
- Procuring Bees to start an Apiary.
- CHAPTER XIV. ROBBING.
- CHAPTER XV. DIRECTIONS FOR FEEDING BEES.
- Feeding, to make a profit by selling the Honey stored up by the Bees.
- CHAPTER XVI. HONEY. PASTURAGE. OVERSTOCKING.
- Pasturage.
- Overstocking a District with Bees.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE ANGER OF BEES. REMEDY FOR THEIR STING. BEE-DRESS. INSTINCTS OF BEES.
- Remedies for the Sting of a Bee.
- Bee-Dress.
- Instincts of Bees.
- FOOTNOTES:
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