How To Keep Bees Or; Bee Keeping In Rhode Island

How to Keep Bees is a detailed and accessible guide to bee-keeping and apiary management, with information on starting out, constructing an apiary, acquiring bees, and much more. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this comprehensive handbook constitutes a must-have for modern readers with practical interest in the subject. Contents include: "Introduction," "Pasturage," "Location of the Hives," "Hives," "Frames, Supers, Etc.," "Honey Boards," "Bee Escapes," "Drone and Queen Trap," "Smoker," "Foundation Fasteners," "Honey Extractor," "Hove Tools," "Comb Foundation," "Clothing," "Uniformity of Appliances," "Making a Start," etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.

• | Author: Arthur C. Miller
• | Publisher: Home Farm Books
• | Publication Date: Sep 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 98 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Technology & Engineering
• | ISBN-10: 1473334276
• | ISBN-13: 9781473334274