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As sustainability and organic living become increasingly popular, so does a desire to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. This timely book will help you to achieve self-sufficiency and make beekeeping a reality. Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees. ... Read more

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Beekeeping for Know-It-Alls is a reference guide to help readers understand the field of Beekeeping (also known as apiculture). Beekeeping for Know-It-Alls provides readers with knowledgeable information on the origins of beekeeping, harvesting wild honey, and bee colonies among many other key topics related to beekeeping. One of the main featured topics is the practices of traditional a well as modern beekeeping including the use of moveable frame hives, protective clothing, smokers, and fixed frame hives. Beekeeping for Know-It-Alls is highly recommended for those who are interested in learning about beekeeping. ... Read more

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No dust on this one.
This book has been the answer to many of my beekeeping problems.How to find out what to do and when to do it are key in keeping bees and this wonderful book gives sound instruction month by month. It coversthe subject in ample detail and gives individual tutoring from beginners andimprovers level and so Ron Brown uses very little jargon.It is veryreadable and clearly illustrated.For a keen beekeeper, beginner or not,this book will gather very little dust. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1908. One of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee. Contents Include: The Ancients and the Honey Bee The Isle of Honey Bee Masters in the Middle Ages The Commonwealth of the Hive Early Work in the Bee City Genesis of the Queen The Bride Widow The Sovereign Worker Bee Anatomy Mystery of the Swarm The Comb Builders The Drone The Modern Bee Farm Bee Keeping and the Simple Life. etc. Illustrated. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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This book aims to supply the beginner possessing a few hives with such information and advice as will enabe him to obtain the best possible results from his apiary, and to carry out the few operations that are necessary throughout the year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include Introductory The Swarm Hiving the Swarm Manipulating a Hive of Bees Hives and Appliances General Management Wintering Surplus Honey Pollination Robbing Diseases and Enemies of Bees Treatment of Bees Throughout the Year ... Read more

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a concise classic
A really great book, very informitive.It got me started in beekeping even though much of the info was written in the early part of last century.There is also an interesting part on keeping a bee colony with two queens.The medications part is alittle out dated but the rest of the story is the same as it is today. ... Read more

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Originally published in pref 1915.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The author uses his expertise to present information on equipment, hives, anatomical structure and even the habits of bees. There are nearly ten full-page color photos plus black-and-white drawings. ... Read more

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Not quite enough
This book is fine for a young school kid for learning simple basics about beekeeping. But for anyone who really wants to learn about beekeeping this book isn't for you. The author used leaf hives, not the more common box hives, and anyone who is a first-time beekeeper would find leaf hives difficult to construct and use.

A poor attempt at a beekeeping book
What a title "Beekeeping: A Practical Guide for the Novice Beekeeper Buying Bees, Management, Rearing, Honey Production".Too bad that the title was almost half the length of the book.This book has a very european look and feel to the instructions and hive structures mentioned.I would not recommend this book to anyone interested in beekeeping with the one exception of, if you are writing a book on beekeeping use it as a guide on how not to write one.

Outstanding photography and graphics, good price
This little book is my "giveaway" to people interested in getting started in bees.It's not a complete guide by any means, but gives someone interested a basic overview.It has outstanding photos andgraphics on the beekeeper's year.Has a European slant many may not like,but I found quite interesting.Great price for size and content.

OK, but not sufficient by itself for a beginning beekeeper.
This book has the advantage of a number of full-color photographs, and isinteresting in that it describes how bees are apparently kept in Europe. However, it is quite brief, and a beginning beekeeper would not be able tostart succesfully with only the information in this book. It should beconsidered to be a supplement to other texts. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1917.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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With directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business, and for shipping bees to California. By W. C. Harbison ... ... Read more

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A New Book on Beekeeping Which Continues the Tradition of "Langstorth on the Hive and the Honeybee." Library of Congress Catalog Number: 63-15838. ... Read more

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This is a presentation of the scientific principles underlying beekeeping management and their practical application in different conditions. It gives an account of honeybees as a world resource, both in producing honey and other hive products and as pollinators that increase yields of seed and fruit crops. It tries for the first time to present an integrated picture, with a brief summary of its history, of world beekeeping in various continents. It is the authors intention that readers will experiment with new ways in which beekeeping methods and equipment might be improved still further and with the application of new technologies and materials seek fresh conceptual approaches to beekeeping problems. ... Read more

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Dated and expensive but a great book
This book has much information about honey bees. Great for people who would like to research and experiment with bees. Includes bee biology, beekeeping techniques for all main honey bee species and a lot of history about bee keeping as well. The book is a little out of date, especially concerning apis cerana since much research about this species has been done since the book was published. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more