Description

This text offers a detailed and comprehensive guide on beekeeping, providing all the information a prospective or existing beekeeper might want to know about this most interesting and rewarding hobby. It contains information on movable-comb hives and the use of modern bee-appliances. In writing this book, the author's intention was to provide valuable information on frame-hive management, condensed into plain directions for the various and most profitable operations, for securing the best harvest of honey. The chapters of this book include: 'Natural History of Bees', 'Brood-Rearing', 'Natural Swarming', 'After-Swarms or Casts', 'Prevention of Swarming', 'Hiving Bees', 'Hives', 'The Claustral Hive', 'Surplus Comb-Honey', 'Storifying for Surplus', 'Comb-Foundation', 'The Honey-Extractor', 'Wax-Extracting', 'Surplus Extracted Honey', etcetera. Originally published in 1911, we are proud to republish this book now complete with a new introduction on the subject.