Introduction

This antique text contains a detailed guide to bee-keeping, and will appeal to the more advanced beekeeper as well as to the novice.

Part One

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.

Part Two

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.

Part Three

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.

Chapters

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.