Excerpt from Bulletin of the Department of Entomology: Alfalfa, Grasshoppers, Bees; Their Relationship Introduction Varieties of Bees German Carniolan Italian Cyprian Social Economy of the Hive The queen The drone The worker Bee Products Bee-bread Propolis Royal jelly Silk. Wax Honey. Analyses of various kinds of honey Comb building The sting Method of fertilization of the alfalfa blossom Influence of bees upon the seed crop Comparative tables Alfalfa as a honey plant. Comparative tables showing alfalfa acreage, stands of bees, pounds of honey Observations gathered from Kansas A piarists Some hive yields. Record of colony of bees feeding for the year almost exclusively upon alfalfa, One Year Among the Bees What constitutes a colony Of bees Early spring management Stimulative feeding. The bee veil and smoker The honey season Hives and appliances The Parker foundation fastener Super for holding the sections The section-holder super Section boxes, shipping crates, etc Hives complete The extractor Extracting honey Hiving swarms Putting hives together Queen-cells and queen rearing Frames of comb foundation Feeding House apiaries. Opening hives and handling bees Reversing the comb. Close of the honey season Cellar wintering. Chaff hives and outdoor wintering Chaff hive complete Colony of bees ready for shipment Introducing queens Winter care Of bees Dividing bees for increase Diseases and Enemies of Bees Foul-brood The wax moth Ants, wasps, spiders Principal Honey and pollen-producing Plants of Kansas Books and Journals relating to Apiculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.