materially suffer by
the moth, or will ever be destroyed by them.

The author is aware of the numerous treatises published on this subject;
but they appear to him, for the most part, to be the result not so much of
experience as of vague and conjectural speculation, and not sufficiently
embodying what is practical and useful.

This work is intended as an accompaniment to the Vermont hive, and will be
found to be the result of observation and experience, and it is thought
comprises all that is necessary to make a skilful Apiarian.

THE AUTHOR.

INDEX

CHAPTER

Rule I. On the construction of the hive, 5

Rule II. On swarming and hiving, 11

Rule III. On ventilating, 23

Rule IV. On preventing robberies, 24

Rule V. On equalizing colonies, by doubling, trebling, &c, 26

Rule VI. On removing honey, 30

Rule VII. The method of compelling swarms to make extra
Queens, and keep them for the use of their owner, 33

Rule VIII. On supplying swarms with Queens, when necessary, 38

Rule IX. On multiplying colonies to any desirable extent,
without swarming, 42

Rule X. On preventing the depredations of the moth, 43

Rule XI. On feeding, 56

Rule XII. On wintering, 60

Rule XIII. On transferring bees from one hive to another, 60

XIV. General Observations, 65

MANUAL, &c.

RULE I.

ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BEE-HIVE.

A bee-hive should be made of sound boards, free from shakes and cracks; it
should also be planed smooth, inside and out, made in a workmanlike
manner, and painted on its outside.

REMARKS.

That a bee-hive should be made perfect, so as to exclude light and air, is
obvious from the fact, that the bees will finish what the workman has
neglected, by plastering up all such cracks and crevices, or bad joints,
as are left open by the joiner. The substance they use for this purpose is
neither honey nor wax, but a kind of glue or cement of their own
manufacturing, and is used by the bees to fill up all imperfect joints and
exclude all light and air. This cemen