Author: Vince CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bee culture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Author: Jay SmithBetter Queens
Author: Jay SmithPublisher: X-Star Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781614760511
Category : Bee culture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Jay Smith was one of the great beekeepers and queen breeders of all time. There are many queen breeding books by scientists or small-scale breeders, but this is by a beekeeper who raised thousands of queens every year. This is much more applicable to practical queen rearing. This is also a method that does not require grafting, good for those of us who can't see well enough to graft, and does not require the purchase of special equipment, good for those of us lacking in the funds to buy one of the graftless systems on the market.
Classic Queen Rearing Compendium
Author: Michael D Bush, PasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781614760597
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A compendium of classic queen rearing books by G.M. Doolittle, C.C. Miller, Henry Alley, Jay Smith, Isaac Hopkins and Frank Pellett with an overview by Michael Bush. These are the foundation of almost all queen rearing done today, all in one binding. These men laid the groundwork and worked out the details of practical systems of queen rearing. Pellet did a lot of distilling down of the various systems, which is very valuable, Smith perfected a lot of what Doolittle started. Miller and Hopkins were the queen rearing examples for the beekeeper who just wanted a few good queens for themselves. If you want to raise queens, these books are the place to start.
Author: Friedrich RuttnerThe Principles of Bee Improvement
Author: Jo WiddicombePublisher:
ISBN: 9781908904621
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Jo Widdicombe, B.Sc. (Hons.) Environmental Science, has been beekeeping for over 30 years and has been a member of BIBBA for more than 25 years, serving on the BIBBA Committee. Jo worked as a Seasonal Bee Inspector for 5 years and is a Bee Farmer in Cornwall running over 100 colonies. "The Principles of Bee Improvement" offers a practical approach and is an attempt to lay down guidelines which are true and applicable to beekeepers in any circumstance. Rather than searching the country, or the world, for the perfect bee to breed from, this book explains how to select and improve bees from the local bee population. It discusses the problems of importation, the use of natural and artificial selection, assessment of colonies and selection within a strain. By following these methods, the standards of our bees can be raised, producing gentle, hardy and productive bees.
Author: Georges de LayensDadant System of Beekeeping
Author: C. P. DadantPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147335921X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This antiquarian volume comprises a comprehensive guide to bee-keeping, with information on seasonal management, diseases, enemies, swarming, honey production, and many other aspects of bee-keeping. Full of interesting, practical information and profusely illustrated, this guide will be of considerable value to the discerning bee-keeper. It is not to be missed by collectors of antiquarian literature of this ilk. The chapters of this volume include: 'Early Experiments - Natural History', 'The Queen', 'The Worker Bee', 'Size of Hives', 'The Large Hive', 'Small Hives', 'Safety in Wintering', 'Frame Spacing', 'The Supers', 'Side Storage', 'Queen Excluders', 'Drone and Drone Production', 'The Dadant Hive', 'A simplified Dadant Hive', and much more. We are proud to republish this vintage book, now complete with a new and specially commissioned introduction on bee-keeping.
Honey in the Comb
Author: Carl KillionPublisher: X-Star Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781614761013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Originally published in 1951. This book is a result of a lifetime study of the equipment and practices for the production of fine comb honey. It is also the purpose of this book to encourage only the finest quality of comb honey to be offered to our markets. This has been newly typeset and is not a scan or an OCR.
Author: Michael Bush