Essay on Bee Keeping - Or an Easy Method of Managing Bees in the Most Profitable Manner to Their Owner with Infallible Rules to Prevent Their Destruction by the Moth or Otherwise

This is a vintage treatise on bee-keeping for profit. Although old much of the information contained within this essay is timeless and will be of considerable utility to modern readers with a practical interest in the subject. Contents include: On Hiving and the General Management of Bees On Hiving Bees On Supplying Swarms with a Young Queen A Little More on Transferring Bees On Providing Hives with Suitable Drawers On Wintering Bees Why Bees do not Fill the Drawers and A Little More on the Use of my Patent Hive. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable modern high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.