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Breeding queen, where to keep 16
Cell building, how to prepare a colony for 18
Cell building, method number one 19
Cell building, method number two 26
Cell building, method number three 29
Cell building, feeding while going on 29
Cell building, how to prepare eggs for 21
Cell building, destroying eggs 22
Cell building, theory of using young bees 24
Cell building, how to rear the best 27
Drones, objectionable 37
Drones, how to catch and destroy 37
Drones, how to obtain and preserve 44
Drone-trap, utility of 46
Honey, how to prevent candying 54
Nuclei, how to form 31
Nuclei, how to feed 44
Pipe for burning tobacco 41
Queen-cell frame, description of 38
Queen-cells, transferring 40
Queens, how to care for 49
Queens, age at which they mate 49
Queens, virgin, forcing to mate 50
Queens, age at which they lay 51
Queens, to know fertile from unfertile 50
Queens, fertilizing in confinement 51
Queens, respect bees show them 51
Queen-cells, destroying 51
Queens, comparative size 53
Queen-rearing, first improvements 11
Queen-rearing, latest improved methods 12
Queen-rearing, on a large scale 14
Queen-rearing, proper conditions of apiary 15
Queen-rearing, to prepare eggs for 16
Queen-breeding colony, how to start 19
Queen-breeding hive, how to make 17
Queens, fertile, how to introduce 34
Queens, unfertile, how to introduce 35
Queen nursery, how to use 29
Queenless bees, necessity of

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