The Bee Keeper's Guide, Fourth Edition Containing concise practical directions for the management of bees, upon the depriving system

I have no hesitation in saying, that a South aspect is decidedly preferable to any other situation for an Apiary. I have tried various aspects, but the Bees in the South I have...

The best time to establish an Apiary is from the middle of February to the middle of March, the stocks will have passed in safety through the winter, the combs are then empty of...

Much has been said with respect to the materials of which Hives should be made, and experience has long determined, that straw and wood are the best. Mr. Huish, to whom I am ind...

[Footnote 4: To avoid repetition, we shall in future use the term, "Box," to express any receptacle employed to obtain honey on the improved system, whether it be in wood, glass...

When the Box is filled with honey and the combs all sealed up, (which will generally be done about the middle of June) it may be taken off, or it may remain till the one placed...

This is a circumstance of very rare occurrence, and more especially when the directions given in the former chapter are strictly complied with; however, should it happen, let th...

straw from the top of the hive, and place upon it the box partially filled with honey and Bees; cover the old hive with the piece of straw belonging to it, and the milkpan, as n...

Second and third Swarms, or Casts and Colts, are seldom or ever able to collect a sufficient quantity of honey, to support themselves through the winter, and can only be preserv...

For this very useful information I am indebted to that excellent Apiarian, Gelieu; I have tried it upon some of my own stocks, as well as upon those of my friends, and have foun...

Autumn and Spring are the most proper seasons for supplying weak stocks with food. Bees ought never to be fed during the winter, as food given at that time, not only causes dise...

I am decidedly of opinion that Bees fed in the Autumn should have honey, in preference to any other kind of food. Mr. Huish recommends "eight pounds of honey, six pounds of wate...

Gelieu says, "that nothing is more prejudicial to Bees than ignorant attention, their most formidable enemies are, perhaps, their possessors, who busy themselves to torment them...

Bees managed upon the Depriving System, rarely swarm and are seldom found clustering at the mouth of the hive, for every bright hour during the honey season they seem to turn to...

This knife, which is so simple in its construction, and so easily used, deserves to be made generally known. Gelieu, to whom Apiarians are much indebted, tells us, that in Switz...

"The sooner the Sting is extracted," says Dr. Bevan, "the less venom is ejected, and consequently less inflammation induced. To alleviate the irritation, numberless remedies hav...

I entirely disapprove of Houses of every description for Bees as a protection against weather, because they tend in various ways most effectually to destroy the lives of those v...

It very rarely happens that Bees in Buildings or in Trees survive the Winter, cold and humidity usually kill them, but the comb and the little honey remaining in it induces othe...

This Hive consists of three collateral Boxes, (see fig. 8.) the centre one fourteen inches, and the side ones ten and a half square inside measure, depth eleven inches; the midd...

Should the cold be intense, no operation whatever should be performed on the Bees that requires the removal of the hives. If snow be on the ground keep the perforated sliders (p...