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Plate I.—Basswood blossom
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Frontispiece
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Observation hives
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Page 2
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FACING PAGE
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Plate II.—(a) Two flat section-boxes
(b) Corneil smoker
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Plate III.—(a) Dixie bee-brush, spur wire-embedder
and Van Deusen wax-tube
fastener. (b) A super with fences. (c)
The Porter bee-escape in a honey-board
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Plate IV. Hives well shaded by a tree
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Plate V. (a) Queen; drone; worker.
(b) Queen cell. (c) Miller’s queen introducing
cage
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Plate VI. Head of drone; head of queen;
head of worker; ventral surface of
worker showing plates of wax
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Plate VII. Legs and antennæ of the honey-bee
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Plate VIII. Drone cells in a comb of honey
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Plate IX. Side of hive removed showing
the bees at work
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Plate X. Bees hanging in a curtain secreting
wax
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Plate XI. Hiving bees; cutting down a
swarm
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Plate XII. (a) Two self-spacing frames.
(b) An empty super. (c) The Doolittle
division board feeder
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Plate XIII. Examining the brood-frames
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Plate XIV. (a) Alley’s queen and drone
trap. (b) A well filled section. (c)
One empty section-holder, and one
filled with section-boxes
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Plate XV. One and a half story hive for
comb-honey
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Plate XVI. Drone and Queen trap; queen
mailing and introducing cage; queen-protector
and queen-cage used in queen-rearing,
and bee-escape
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Plate XVII. “In apple-blossom time”
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Plate XVIII. (a) Taking off upper story of
hive containing combs for extracting.
(b) Extracting-room showing apparatus
for extracting honey
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Plate XIX. (a) Uncapping comb before
extracting the honey. (b) Placing uncapped
comb in one of the pockets of
the extractor
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Plate XX. (a) Drawing honey from extractor.
(b) Pouring extracted honey
into keg for shipping in bulk
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Plate XXI. (a) Extracted honey in pails,
candied. (b) Extracted honey in glass
jars ready for market
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Plate XXII. Winter quarters in chaff hives
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Plate XXIII. Plum blossoms
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Plate XXIV. Sumac in blossom. Blossom
of mountain maple
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Plate XXV. Fig. 1. Vertical longitudinal
section of the body of a larva of an
insect. Fig. 2. Section of the body-wall
of insect. Fig. 3. Head of a bee and
its appendages. Fig. 4. Glands of a
honey-bee. Fig. 5. The wax plates
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Plate XXVI. (a) The reproductive organs
of the honey-bee. (b) Fig. 1. The
internal anatomy of the honey-bee.
Fig. 2. The respiratory system of the
honey-bee
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Plate XXVII. An old-fashioned apiary
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Plate XXVIII. (a) Thorn-apple blossoms.
(b) Wild crab-apple blossoms
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Plate XXIX. Buckwheat in blossom
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Plate XXX. Box-elder, staminate and pistillate
flowers
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Plate XXXI. Blossoms of black locust
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