Excluders................440, 441 -- Food, hees'................116 -- Excrements, see Feces. " for wintering................343, 344 -- Extracted honey................451 -- " bow much for Winter................342 -- " barrels for.469, 512 -- " its effect on queen larvae 47 -- " granulation of.515 -- " on worker larvae................7 -- " sale of.518, 519, 523 -- " best to ship queens....23 -- Extracting................463 -- " Forcing box................310 -- " advantages of................454, 455 -- Foster................................ -- conclusions on................471 -- " open side sections....450, 451 -- from broad combs....466 " shipping directions....510, 511 -- half stories for....458 -- Foul-brood................473 -- " how to proceed....463 " care and perseverance... " implements for.463, 465 " needed................484 -- " lessens the work....457 " detected in Spring....476 " prevents swarming....457 " description of....475 -- Extractor................453, 454, 469 " Dupont experiments....475 " reversible................469 " from infected queens....485 Eyes of bees................3, 4 " fumigating....479 " comparison of....4 " method of Alexander....485 " method of Bertrand....479 " of Cheshire....481 Facets of the eye................4 " of McEvoy....482 " why so many.... 5 " of Muth....477 Famine, description by....212, 372 -- Foundation, see Comb foundation.....48 Fear of strings........ 200 -- Frame of the bodies of insects.... 3 -- " Freundation delayed, its re-....142, 147, 150, 151, 158, 164 " splits........ 60, 61 " comparison of divers sizes.... " of flowers by bees........ 150, 151, 153 " distance between....157 " of the queen.... 53 " Danzenbaker....151 Feeble colonies, feeding.... 530 " divisible.... 272, 273 " uniting.... 348 " first attempts at movable....142 " unprofitable.... 430 " groove for foundation....150.... 41 " Hoffman.... 149, 151 Feeders........ 382, 333 " Langstrodt....149 Feeding bees........ 320 " number per hive.... 15+ " larvae compared with.... " perpendicular to the en-.... 28.... 160.... " in the Fall.... 391 " Quinby.... 151, 158 " in Spring.... 390 " " dimensions of....164... 164... 168 sugar.... 387 " regularity of the outside.... 169... not to be encouraged.... 336 " measure of.... 158, 159 " Scholz candy.... 335 " removing from the hives.... 202.... 330 " space around.... 142... 349 " sugar candy.... 331 " spacing wire for.... 170... 357 " syrup.... 335 " success with every kind of.... 359 " swarms.... 350 " top and bottom bars of.... 159 Fences........ 439 " triangular edge.... 157 Fertility of the queen, see.... 448 " fecundity.... 41 " width of the top bar.... 159 Fertilization, see Impregnation.... France, N. E., on foul-brood.... Field, Eugene.... 11+ " " " on legal rights.... 51+ " Frults and bees.... 19, 510 Flight during Winter.... 356, 366 " blooms benefited by bees.... 126, 127 " speed of.... 26 " " fuates of, injurious to bees.... 344 " Flowers, bees not injurious to.... 127-128, 513 " into.... 498, 499 " list of honey.... 404 " to tame bees.... 193, 14 " Feces of bees, discharge of the.... 29 " di-charged in the hive.... 343 " unhealthy.... 472 " of the queen.... 18 " of young bees.... 145, 149, 152