Bee-culture
By: By Isaac Hopkins, Apiculturist.
Edition: Third edition
Series: Bulletin (New Zealand. Division of Biology and Horticulture) ; no. 18.
Publisher: New Zealand Department of Agriculture
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Wellington, NZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Bees
Description: The two former Bulletins, Nos. 5 and 18, have been revised, enlarged, and embodied in the present one. All subjects, including the chapter on Diseases and their Treatment, have been brought up to date, and the efficacy of the treatment prescribed has been fully proven in practice throughout the Dominion. The additional subject-matter will, I believe, further assist those who take up the fascinating occupation of beekeeping, whether for pleasure or profit.
Notes: (Third Edition, 25,000, March, 1909.) 

New Zealand Department of Agriculture
Division of Biology and Horticulture
T. W. Kirk, F.L.S., Government Biologist, Chief of Division.

I. Advice to Beginners.
II. Practical Advice.
III. Bees in Relation to Flowers and Fruit-culture.
IV. Bees in Relation to Agriculture

Illustrated.

By direction of the Right Hon. Sir J. G. WARD, P.C, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture. 

Wellington. By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer.
Table of contents: label: Note
title: 5; label: Preface
title: 7; label: PART I.— ADVICE TO BEGINNERS.; label: I. Introductory
title: 9; label: Who should not keep Bees
title: 10; label: Beekeeping for Ladies
title: 10; label: Cadetship
title: 11; label: Cadets at the State Apiaries
title: 11; label: Profits in Beekeeping
title: 11; label: Beekeeping combined with other Pursuits
title: 12; label: Beekeeping Literature
title: 12; label: II. The Hive to adopt
title: 13; label: The Langstroth Hive
title: 13; label: Making Hives
title: 15; label: A Cheap Langstroth Frame Hive
title: 15; label: III. When and how to start Beekeeping
title: 17; label: Start with Common Bees
title: 17; label: The Honey to raise
title: 17; label: Raising Section-honey
title: 18; label: Cost of a Beginner's Outfit
title: 18; label: IV. The Apiary
title: 18; label: Choice of a Locality for Bee farming
title: 8; label: Site and Shelter
title: 19; label: Tagasaste
title: 20; label: Giant-growing Privet
title: 21; label: Water
title: 21; label: Area of Ground for a Bee-farm
title: 21; label: Laying out an Apiary
title: 22; label: Keeping the Hives free from Grass
title: 22; label: Shade
title: 23; label: Flat Covers
title: 23; label: Apiary Buildings
title: 24; label: Plans and Specifications
title: 24; label: V. Handling Bees
title: 26; label: Bee-veil and Smoker
title: 27; label: How to manipulate a Hive
title: 27; label: Handling Frames of Comb
title: 28; label: VI. Working Bees on Shares
title: 28; label: PART II.— PRACTICAL ADVICE.; label: I. The Use of Comb-foundation
title: 30; label: II. The Ripening and Maturing of Honey
title: 31; label: Amount of Moisture in Honey
title: 32; label: Testing Honey for Ripeness
title: 33; label: Specific Gravity of Honey
title: 33; label: Method of Testing
title: 34; label: Ripening Honey inside and outside the Hive
title: 35; label: Ripening and Maturing Tanks
title: 37; label: Honey-strainers
title: 38; label: Size of Honey-tanks
title: 38; label: E. W. Alexander's Honey-tank
title: 40; label: Heating the Honey-house at Night
title: 40; label: Liquefying Granulated Honey
title: 40; label: Remarks
title: 41; label: III. Dealing with Thick Honey
title: 41; label: Flora from which Thick Honey is gathered
title: 42; label: Making the Best of the Difficulty
title: 42; label: Honey-press
title: 42; label: Objections to the Use of Queen-excluders
title: 44; label: IV. Spring Feeding of Bees
title: 45; label: The Cause of Starvation
title: 45; label: When and how to feed
title: 46; label: Feeders
title: 46; label: V. The Solar Wax-extractor
title: 47; label: VI. Diseases of Bees and their Treatment
title: 48; label: Foul-brood
title: 49; label: Other Diseases
title: 55; label: The Large Bee or Wax Moth
title: 56; label: The Apiaries Act
title: 59; label: PART III.— BEES IN RELATION TO FLOWERS AND FRUIT-CULTURE.; label: I. In relation to Flowers generally
title: 61; label: Sexual Organs in Flowers
title: 61; label: Mechanism of Flowers
title: 62; label: II. In relation to Fruit-culture
title: 64; label: Shelter
title: 68; label: Spraying Fruit - trees while in Blossom
title: 68; label: Do Bees injure Fruit?
title: 69; label: PART IV.— BEES IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURE.; label: Are Bees Trespassers?
title: 71; label: Beneficial Influence of Bees on Agriculture
title: 71; label: Can Bees harm the Soil or the Crops?
title: 73; label: Saccharine Matter of Plants not derived from the Soil
title: 73; label: Nectar of Plants intended to attract Insects
title: 74; label: Question as to Grazing Stock
title: 77; label: Quantity of Honey furnished by Pasture-land
title: 77; label: Beekeeping as a Branch of Farming
title: 79; label: PLATES.; label: Frontispiece — Isaac Hopkins, Government Apiculturist.; label: Plate II — Frame Hive constructed from Kerosene-case.; label: III — Hedge of Tagasaste.; label: IV — An Overcrowded Apiary.; label: V — Model Apiary, Government Experimental Farm, Ruakura.; label: Va and Vb — Queen-rearing Apiairy, Government Experimental Farm, Waerenga.; label: VI — Extracting-room, Honey-house.; label: VII — Fumigating-room, Honey-house.; label: VIII to XII — Handling Bees.; label: XIII — Comb showing Drone-cells.; label: XIV — Worker-comb.; label: XV — Cheese-press converted into Honey-press.; label: XVI. — Solar Wax-extractor.; label: XVII. — Comb infested with Foul-brood.; label: XVIII. — Portion of Diseased Comb ; natural size.; label: XIX. — Comb attacked by Larger Wax-moth.