This text offers a detailed and comprehensive guide on beekeeping,
providing all the information a prospective or existing beekeeper might
want to know about this most interesting and rewarding hobby. It
contains information on movable-comb hives and the use of modern
bee-appliances. In writing this book, the author's intention was to
provide valuable information on frame-hive management, condensed into
plain directions for the various and most profitable operations, for
securing the best harvest of honey. The chapters of this book include:
'Natural History of Bees', 'Brood-Rearing', 'Natural Swarming',
'After-Swarms or Casts', 'Prevention of Swarming', 'Hiving Bees',
'Hives', 'The Claustral Hive', 'Surplus Comb-Honey', 'Storifying for
Surplus', 'Comb-Foundation', 'The Honey-Extractor', 'Wax-Extracting',
'Surplus Extracted Honey', etcetera. Originally published in 1911, we
are proud to republish this book now complete with a new introduction on
the subject.