Part 2

Equipment in bees 12

Bee behavior 15

Directions for general manipulations 19 Transferring 22 Uniting 24 Preventing robbing in the apiary 25 Feeding 26

Spring management 26

Swarm management and increase 29 Artificial swarming 31 Prevention of swarming 32

Preparation for the harvest 33

The production of honey 33 Extracted honey 34 Comb honey 36

The production of wax 39

Preparations for wintering 40

Diseases and enemies 42

General information 44 Breeders of queens 44 Introducing queens 44 Dealers in bee keepers' supplies 45 Bee keepers' associations 45 Laws affecting beekeeping 45 Disease inspection 45 Laws against spraying fruit trees while in bloom 46 Laws against the adulteration of honey 46 When bees are a nuisance 46 Supposed injury of crops by bees 46

Journals and books on beekeeping 46

Publications of the Department of Agriculture on beekeeping 47

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Fig. 1. A well-arranged apiary 7

2. A ten-frame hive with comb honey super and perforated zinc queen excluder 10

3. Smoker 11

4. Bee veil with silk-tulle front 11

5 Hive tools 12

6. Drone and queen trap on hive entrance 12

7. Bee escape for removing bees from supers 13

8. Spring bee escape 13

9. Bee brush 14

10. Worker, queen, and drone 16

11. Comb architecture 17

12. Egg, larvæ, and pupa 18

13. Queen cells 18