Chapter XXVIII: The Profits of Bee-Keeping

Methods of Honey-taking--Straw Caps--Bell-Glasses--
Sections--Frames--Extractors--Run Honey--Average
Returns of Hives.

268-272

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fig. PAGE

Comb, Showing Different Kinds of Cells _Frontispiece_

1. Eggs and Larva of Bees 12

2. Larvæ 13

3. Sealed Cells 14

4. _a_, Larva full grown, viewed sideways,
_b_, Larva preparing for Pupa state 15

5. Worker Larva and Pupa in Comb 16

6. The Queen of the Hive 19

7. Queen Surrounded by Attendants 20

8. A Drone 29

9. A Worker Bee 35

10. A Worker Bee, showing the Scales of Wax 53

11. Festoons of Bees Suspended from the Roof of the Hive 55

12. Cluster of Bees 58

13. Wax-Worker commencing a Comb 59

14. Diagram of Cells 63

15. Supposed Circular Cells 63

16. Arrangement of Cells 64

17. Diagram showing Slope of Cells 66

18. Arrangement of Combs in a Bell-Glass 68

19. The Queen Cell 69

20. Queen Cells in situ 70

21. Hind-leg of a Bee 73

22. Nervous System of Privet Hawk Moth 81

23. Nervous System of Larva of Bee 82

24. Nervous System of Perfect Insect 83

25. Eyes of a Bee (greatly magnified) 85

26. Facets of Eye of a Bee 86

27. Head of Bee, With Antennæ 98

28. Lower Segments of Hind-leg of Bee, considerably enlarged 110

29. Complete Hind-leg of Bee 110

30. Wing of Bee 112

31. Hooklets of a Bee's Wing 113

32. Abdomen of Bee, showing Respiratory Organs 116

33. Air-sacs of Worker 117

34. _a_, Air-sacs; _b_, Ovaries, of the Queen 118

35. _a_, Tracheæ; _b_, Elastic Spiral of Tracheæ 119

36. Under Side of Abdomen, showing Wax Scales 121

37. Bee, showing the Wax Scales 121

38. Scales 121

39. Ovaries and Spermatheca of Queen 123

40. Sting of a Bee (greatly magnified) 125

41. Barbs of a Bee's Sting (very highly magnified) 126

42. The Enemies of Bees 141

43. Straw Skep 150

44. Flat-topped Hive and Straw Super 151

45. Neighbour's Improved Cottager's Hive 152

46. " " " 153

47. Modern Hives. Nutt's Collateral Hive in the Foreground 155

48. The Woodbury Hive 157

49. Woodbury Straw Bar-frame Hive 157

50. Cheshire's Bar-frame Hive 159

51. Cheshire's Bar-frame Hive (sectional view) 160

52. Abbott's Standard Frame 161

53. " " (top view) 161

54. Neighbour's Sectional Super (open) 162

55. Frame Super 162

56. Glass Frame Hive, with Super 163

57. Stewarton Hive 165

58. The Carr-Stewarton Hive 167

59. Unicomb Observatory Hive 168

60. A Swarm 173

61. "Tanging" 174

62. Hiving a Swarm 179

63. Swarming Board 192

64. Queen Cage over Sealed Cell 197

65. Inserted Queen Cell 198

66. Bottle Feeder 202

67. Cheshire's Feeding Stage 203

68. Can Feeder 205

69. Round Tin Feeder 205

70. Epilobium Angustifolium. (Young Bloom) 248

71. " " (Old Bloom) 248

72. Cineraria (magnified) 250

73. Tropœolum Majus. (Young Bloom) 252

74. " " (Old Bloom) 252

75. Section of Scrophularia Nodosa 254

76. Scrophularia Nodosa. (Young Bloom) 254

77. " " (Old Bloom) 254

78. Salvia Officinalis. (New Bloom) 255

79. " " (Old Bloom) 255

80. _a_, Erica Tetralix. _b_, Anther of Tetralix 255

81. Section of Strawberry Bloom 256

82. Section of Apple Bloom 257

THE HONEY-BEE.

ERRATA.

p. 22, ten lines from bottom, for "not full grown" read "not more
than two or three days old."

p. 30, last line but one from the bottom, for "neuters" read
"strange workers."

p. 55, line 10 from bottom, for "hind feet" read "pincers on the
hind legs."

p. 110, bottom line, for "four anterior tarsi" read "in the hind
legs."

p. 111, line 3, for "leg" read "hind leg."

" line 6, for "This pocket" read "Above this, on the outside
of the tibia, is a pocket, lined, &c."

p. 136, line 12, for "foul-breeding" read "foul-broody."

ADDENDA.

p. 126, three lines from bottom, add

"The most remarkable function of the sting-apparatus
has, in modern times, been discovered to be the insertion of
a minute drop of the poison in each honey-cell when filled.
This acts as an anti-septic, and prevents fermentation in
the sweet liquid."

p. 136, after first paragraph, add

"It is now known that this treatment is by no means
always successful when the _bacilli_ have reached the
"resting" or "spore" stage."

[Note: All above corrections and additions have been applied!]

THE HONEY-BEE:

ITS NATURE, HOMES, AND PRODUCTS.