Pleasurable Bee-Keeping
eBook - ePub

Pleasurable Bee-Keeping

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pleasurable Bee-Keeping

About this book

"Pleasurable Bee-Keeping" is a simple and accessible guide to keeping bees for pleasure. It contains chapters on all aspects of the hobby from equipment and preparation to diseases and common enemies. This volume is highly recommended for modern readers with a practical interest in the subject. Contents include: "Bees and Flowers", "Why keep Bees?", "The Contents of the Hive", "Natural Increase", "Races of Bees", Subduing and Handling of Bees", "Hives", "Aids to Success", "Commencing Bee-keeping", "Honey Production", "Bee-escapes and Super-Clearing", "Queen Raising and Introducing", "Diseases", "Enemies of Bees", 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Bee Keeping
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. I. Bees and Flowers
  8. II. Why Keep Bees?
  9. III. The Contents of the Hive
  10. IV. Natural Increase
  11. V. Races of Bees
  12. VI. Subduing and Handling Bees
  13. VII. Hives
  14. VIII. Aids to Success
  15. IX. Commencing Bee-Keeping
  16. X. Honey Production
  17. XI. Bee-Escapes and Super-Clearing
  18. XII. Queen Raising and Introducing
  19. XIII. Diseases
  20. XIV. Enemies of Bees
  21. XV. Wintering.
  22. XVI. Driving, Transferring, Uniting
  23. XVII. Marketing Honey
  24. XVIII. Wax Extracting
  25. Index