Bees and bee-keeping
Subtitle: a plain, practical work : resulting from years of experience and close observation in extensive apiaries, both in Pennsylvania and California : with directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business, and for shipping bees to California
By: by W.C. Harbison, practical apiarian
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Company, Agricultural Book Publishers, no. 25 Park Row
Published: 1860
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Bees; Bee culture; Economic aspects
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
Table of contents: title: History and physiology of the honey bee; title: Breeding of bees; title: Wax; title: Bee-bread, or pollen; title: Honey; title: The apiary; title: Bee hives; title: Honey boxes; title: Bee pasturage; title: Management of bees; title: Artificial swarms; title: Feeding; title: Natural swarming; title: How to make bees profitable; title: Loss of queens; title: Management of honey; title: Enemies of bees; title: Overstocking; title: Watering bees; title: Shipping bees to California; title: Robbing; title: Uniting swarms; title: Wintering bees; title: Profits of bee keeping; title: Honey bee in China.