Bee-Keeping For Beginners And Others

This antique text contains a detailed guide to bee-keeping, and will appeal to the more advanced beekeeper as well as to the novice. This book is divided into three parts: the first guides the novice from the time when he first decides to take up the craft until the end of his first season; the second deals in detail with the years work in the apiary, showing how the various problems that confront the bee-keeper in the second and subsequent years should be met; whilst the third, in addition to dealing with diseases and other miscellaneous subjects, contains the formulae and other useful information which more advanced bee-keepers will find of interest. The chapters of this book include: The Honey-Bee, Natural History, The Inhabitants of the Hive, The Queen, The Workers, The Drones, Parthenogenesis, Metamorphosis, Bees and Honey, Hives, Bee-Keeping in Antiquity, The Bee Space, British Types, The National Hive, American Hives, Frame Sizes, Races of Bees, etcetera. This antique text is being republished here with a new introduction on bee keeping.