Bee-keeping For Beginners And Others - E. L. B. James

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.