How to Keep Bees Or; Bee Keeping in Rhode Island

""How to Keep Bees"" is a detailed and accessible guide to bee-keeping and apiary management, with information on starting out, constructing an apiary, acquiring bees, and much more. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this comprehensive handbook constitutes a must-have for modern readers with practical interest in the subject. Contents include: ""Introduction"", ""Pasturage"", ""Location of the Hives"", ""Hives"", ""Frames, Supers, Etc."", ""Honey Boards"", ""Bee Escapes"", ""Drone and Queen Trap"", ""Smoker"", ""Foundation Fasteners"", ""Honey Extractor"", ""Hove Tools"", ""Comb Foundation"", ""Clothing"", ""Uniformity of Appliances"", ""Making a Start"", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.