The Bee-keeper's Manual or Practical Hints on the Management and Complete Preservation of the Honey-bee.

The entrance into a hive is generally cut out of its bottom edge. This has a tendency to cause decay in that part, particularly if of straw; besides that, a hole so made affords...

Much of what has been said in the preceding section is equally applicable in practice to the later periods of the summer. The month of August is usually associated with the coll...

A hive-board suitable is either like the one shown at p. 43, or that at p. 44; the boxes being placed upon it, with the bars ranging from front to back. Some persons are incline...

_Winter position._--It is extremely desirable in winter to keep off the influence of the sun from the front of the hives. Some persons recommend moving them from their summer po...

[N] Another point on which Nutt laid much stress may be mentioned, viz., the supposed advantage to the bees in working on one level, without the necessity of _climbing_, as in s...

_Depriving system._--Opposed to the mode of management in which swarming is systematically encouraged, is that whereby, under ordinary circumstances, it may be often prevented,...

All experienced apiculturists know that no colony of bees thrives, or works so well, as one that is populous at the outset. Should any doubt exist on this point, it is often exp...

The custom of stupefying bees by some narcotic substance has long been in practice; and, observes Dr. Dunbar, "there is no more useful auxiliary in every operation in an apiary...

It is not clear by what instinct bees are guided as respects after-swarms, or rather as to the construction of royal cells; for, as has been shown, these abound much more in som...

And this leads us on to a curious, if not unique fact in relation to the natural history of the Honey bee, which though probably not unknown to the ancients, was rediscovered an...

[Z] I am not amongst the number of those who (to my apprehension) go out of their way to maintain that this vegetable secretion undergoes some kind of chemical change by passing...

It will naturally occur, that to carry out the design of a _Dividing Hive_ every part must have its duplicate, so that four halves, boards, &c., are necessary; each made so prec...

The Bee-Keeper’s Manual. 1 The Queen or Mother Bee 4 The Common or Working Bees 11 Swarming (or Single Hiving) and Depriving Systems 21 Common Straw (or Single) Hives 27 Straw D...

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