Practical Bee Keeping

Practical Bee-Keeping - Being Plain Instructions to the Amateur for the Successful Management of the Honey Bee

This vintage book contains a complete and illustrated guide to bee-keeping designed for beginners and students. It contains chapters on every aspect of bee and apiary management, and constitutes a fantastic resource for modern keepers and enthusiasts. Contents include: "Natural History of the Bee", "Straw Hives", "Skeps-Size of-Supers For-Supering Hives-Neighbour's Cottage Hive-Floor Boards For-Protection of.", "Bar Frame Hives", "The Woodbury", "The Abbott Cottage-The Cheshire-The Sherrington-The Abbott-The Carr Stewarton", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. This book has been selected for reproduction due to its educational importance, and we are proud to be republishing it now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.

Practical Bee Keeping and Honey Production

This vintage book contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on hive construction and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects. Highly accessible and full of useful tips, “Practical Bee Keeping and Honey Production” will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in keeping bees, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Bee Keeping”, “A Foreword”, “Bee Keeping As A Practical Proposition”, “How Bees Work”, “The Modern Beehive”, “Frames and Comb Foundation”, “Other Essential Appliances”, “The Various Races of Honey Bees”, “Making a Start”, “Handling Bees”, “The Honey Harvest”, “Swarming”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on keeping bees.

The Book of Bee-keeping