Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891) Third Edition.

A SWARM of bees contains _one_ Queen, thousands of workers, and in the summer season a limited number of drones. The queen is the only fully developed female in the swarm. She n...

IT is now more than ten years since I invented the Controllable Bee Hive, and New System of Bee Management. I commenced bee keeping with the common box hive, with no knowledge w...

I HAVE learned from bitter experience, as has nearly every one who has kept bees for any length of time, the dishonesty, and utter disregard for truth, of a class of speculators...

A bee keeper of my acquaintance paid fifty dollars for a patent apparatus for feeding bees together in the open air. The result was, soon after being fed, they commenced fightin...

IN the last chapter instructions were given when to put on boxes, but it is important to know more about this subject, the kind of boxes to use, etc. I shall recommend two sizes...

UNDER the old systems of bee-keeping swarming was very imperfectly understood. And even at the present time it is amusing to see how many old bee-keepers manage their bees. Ther...

THE anger of bees, when once thoroughly aroused, is much to be dreaded, as the results which follow are often of a very serious nature. In my own case I can handle bees with per...

IN some localities the bee moth is said to be very destructive, yet I regard the depredations of this insect as much less to be feared than some bee-keepers suppose. The bee mot...

LOSS of stocks by robbing shows carelessness, or lack of knowledge as to the proper care of bees. Not one strong, healthy stock of bees in a thousand will be robbed, if proper p...

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, and even at the present time, by the ordinary methods of bee-keeping, if a profit of five dollars from one hive of bees in one season was gained, it was c...

ON my plan of bee management, if a stock does not change its queen for three years in succession, the fourth season the old queen should be taken away, if she shows the least si...

IN commencing to rear queens, you will first want some small rearing boxes, or miniature hives, about four and one-half inches wide, by eight inches long, and five inches deep,...

THE sources from which bees collect honey are various and almost innumerable. Almost every flower, tree, plant, shrub and vine, in field, forest, pasture and garden yield honey...

IN locating your hives, place them on the south side of buildings, or a close board fence facing south, southeast or south-west. If possible, locate in the shade of trees, where...

THE subject of wintering bees is of the greatest importance, and one which is generally very imperfectly understood, if we may judge from the large number of swarms lost every w...

If you have bees in a box or patent hive, or any of the thousand and one bee hive humbugs, which are of little or no profit, and cause you much trouble and perplexity in swarmin...

THE Italian bee is a native of the Alps, and was first imported to this country about the year 1860. The Italian being a native of mountainous regions and a high latitude, they...

COMB foundation, or artificial comb is one of the greatest inventions of modern times. By its use the production of honey is greatly increased. To obtain the most satisfactory r...

THE successful management and care of bees requires forethought and preparation for all labor and care bestowed on them, if we desire to bestow it at the proper time, and in the...

WE often hear this question asked: "Are bees profitable?" and the replies given are various, contradictory and amusing, varying in accordance with the honesty, experience, skill...