Bee-keeping for the Many; or, The management of the common and Ligurian honey bee / Including the selection of hives and a bee-keeper's calendar
MANUALS FOR THE MANY - No. III. BEE-KEEPING. BY THE LATE J. H. PAYNE Esq. THIRTIETH THOUSAND - PRICE FOURPENCE. LONDON: JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER OFFICE, 171, FLEET ST. E.C.
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FIRST-CLASS ILLUSTRATED GARDENING PERIODICAL
Published Weekly, Price 3d.; Stamped, 3 1 / 2 d.
THE
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE,
COTTAGE GARDENER, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN,
BEE-KEEPER, AND POULTRY CHRONICLE.
EDITED BY
G. W. JOHNSON, F.R.H.S., & ROBERT HOGG, LL.D., F.L.S.
Assisted by a Staff of the best Writers on Practical Gardening and other Rural Pursuits connected with the Household.
This long-established and widely circulating Journal consists of Thirty-two Pages of Letter-press, with occasional Supplements of eight additional Pages; and is richly Illustrated with Wood Engravings in the highest style of the Art.
J. H. Payne
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BEE-KEEPING FOR THE MANY;
BEE-KEEPING FOR THE MANY.
CONTENTS
NATURAL HISTORY.
SITUATION OF THE APIARY.
HIVES.
PAYNE'S IMPROVED COTTAGE HIVE.
NEIGHBOUR'S IMPROVED COTTAGE HIVE.
NEIGHBOUR'S OBSERVATORY HIVE.
TAYLOR'S AMATEURS' HIVE.
FENN'S HIVE.
THE STEWARTON HIVE.
TEGETMEIER'S HIVE.
THE WOODBURY HIVE.
METHOD OF SECURING COMBS IN FRAMES.
SWARMING.
UNITING SWARMS.
VENTILATION.
FEEDING.
MANNER OF TAKING HONEY.
STUPIFYING BEES.
METHOD OF DRAINING HONEY FROM THE COMBS.
PREPARATION OF WAX.
MEAD.
HONEY VINEGAR.
REMEDIES FOR THE STING OF A BEE.
BEE DRESS.
PURCHASING STOCKS.
THE LIGURIAN OR YELLOW ALP BEE.
TO UNITE A LIGURIAN QUEEN TO A COMMON STOCK OR SWARM.
MULTIPLYING SWARMS OF LIGURIANS.
BEE-KEEPER'S CALENDAR.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
INDEX.