Originally published in the 1930s, How to Succeed with Bees (13th Edition) contains more than 190 successful plans to produce big crops of honey, explaining:
- how fall management saves spring labor, increases next year's honey crop, reduces winter losses far below U. S. average;
- how bees store more honey when swarming is controlled;
- successful methods of producing comb or extracted honey;
- how to make increase with minimum crop loss;
- how to introduce new queen bees;
- and much more.
Contents Covered:
- Late Summer Management and Next Year's Honey Crop
- Requeening
- Removing Supers
- Feeding
- Planning Protection
- Doing Spring Work in Fall
- How to Successfully Winter Bees
- Protection
- Packing
- Final Inspection
- Planning for 57
- Storing Combs until Spring
- Choice and Assembly of Equipment
- "Standard" Goods Cost Less
- Kind Needed for Comb or Extracted Honey
- Assembly of Hives and Accessories
- Spring Management
- Results of Fall Work
- Colony Requirements
- Adapting Management to Cellar or Outdoor Wintered Bees
- Control of Swarming
- What Swarm Control Accomplishes
- Causes of Swarming
- Clipping Queens
- Control of After-Swarms
- How to Produce Section Comb Honey
- Choice of Colonies
- Where to Purchase Comb Honey
- How to Super
- Control and Handling of Swarms
- How to Produce Extracted Honey
- Strength of Colonies
- Plan of Swarm Control
- Supering
- Choice of Honey for Winter
- Extracting
- How to Increase Your Colonies
- Choice of Plan and Effect on Crops
- Increase by Packages or Nuclei
- Adapt Plan to Kind of Honey
- Odds and Ends around the Apiary
- Control of Robbing
- Finding Queens
- Introducing Queens
- Life History of Honey Bee
- Failing Queens
- Guide to Seasonal Activities
- Illustration Index
| Format: | PDF Digital Reprint, e-Facsimile |
| No. of Pages: | 98 |
| Page Size: | A4 (210mm × 297mm) |
| Download Size: | 37.0 MB |
