The Cause, 304 Effects, 304 First Indications, 305 Prevention, 305
First care, 307 Strong Stocks disposed to plunder, 307 Bees Changeable, 308 Requisites for good Stocks, 308 Great disadvantage of killing the Bees, 309 Section of country may make a difference in what poor stocks need, 309 When Bees are needed, 310 Caution, 311 Principal Difficulty, 311 How Avoided, 311 Advantages of making one good stock from two poor ones, 312 Two families together will not consume as much as if separate, 312 An Experiment, 312 Season for operating, 313 The Fumigator, 314 Directions for uniting two families, 315 Uniting with Tobacco Smoke, 317 Condition of Stocks in 1851, 318 How they were managed, 318 Cause of their superior Thrift, 319 Swarms partly filled pay better than to cut out the honey, 320 Advantages in transferring, 320 Another method of uniting two families, 321 Uniting Comb and Honey as well as Bees, 322 When feeding should be done for Stock Hives, 323
Different methods have been adopted, 325 The idea of Bees not freezing has led to errors in practice, 326 Appearance of Bees in cold weather, 326 How part of the swarm is frozen, 327 How a small family may all freeze, 327 Frost and Ice sometimes smother Bees, 328 Frost and Ice in a Hive accounted for, 329 The effect of Ice or Frost on Bees and Comb, 330 Frost may cause starvation, 330 Other Difficulties, 330 Further Illustrations, 332 Accumulation of Fæces described by some writers as a disease, 336 The Author's remedy, 337 Buying Bees, 337 Experiments of the Author to get rid of the Frost, 338 Success in this matter, 338 Bees when in the house should be kept perfectly dark, 339 A room made for wintering Bees, 339 Manner of stowing away Hives, 340 Temperature of room, 341 Too much Honey may sometimes be stored, 342 Management of room towards Spring, 342 Time for setting out Bees, 343 Not too many stocks taken out at once, 343 Families may be equalized, 344 Snow need not always prevent carrying out Bees, 344 Does not Analogy prove that Bees should be kept warm in Winter? 345 The next best place for wintering Bees, 346 Evils of wintering in the open air considered, 347 But little risk with good stocks, 348 Effect of keeping second-rate stocks out of the sun, 348 Effects of Snow considered, 349 Stocks to be protected on some occasions, 350 Do the Bees eat more when allowed to come out occasionally in Winter? 352