Description
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 year''s 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.