Bee-culture
By: By Isaac Hopkins, Apiarist.
Edition: Second edition
Series: Bulletin (New Zealand. Division of Biology and Horticulture) ; no. 5.
Publisher: New Zealand Department of Agriculture
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Wellington, NZ
Number of pages: 34
Description: The increasing demand for instruction in bee-culture consequent upon the rapid expansion of the industry throughout the Dominion has necessitated the issue of a second edition of this Bulletin.

The matter contained in the first edition has been revised and largely added to, and several other subjects of importance are dealt with in this edition.
Notes: First edition, 10,000, May, 1905. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 10,000, December, 1907.

New Zealand Department of Agriculture
John D. Ritchie, Secretary
Division of Biology and Horticulture
T. W. Kirk, F.L.S., Government Biologist, Chief of Division.
Illustrated.
The Hon. Robert McNab, Minister for Agriculture.
Wellington. By Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer.
Table of contents: title: PRACTICAL ADVICE; label: I.
title: The Use of Comb-foundation
pagenum: 1; label: II.
title: The Ripening and Maturing of Honey
pagenum: 3; title: Amount of Moisture in Honey
pagenum: 3; title: Testing Honey for Ripeness
pagenum: 4; title: Specific Gravity of Honey
pagenum: 4; title: Tests made
pagenum: 5; title: Method of Testing
pagenum: 6; title: Honey Vinegar
pagenum: 6; title: Ripening Honey inside and outside the Hive
pagenum: 6; title: Ripening and Maturing Tanks
pagenum: 8; title: Size of Honey-tanks
pagenum: 9; title: E. W. Alexander’s Honey-tank
pagenum: 10; title: Heating the Honey-house at Night
pagenum: 10; label: III.
title: Dealing with Thick Honey
pagenum: 11; title: Flora from which Thick Honey is gathered
pagenum: 12; title: Making the Best of the Difficulty
pagenum: 12; title: Honey-press
pagenum: 12; label: IV.
title: Diseases of Bees and their Treatment
pagenum: 14; title: Foul-brood
pagenum: 14; title: Pickle-brood
pagenum: 19; title: Chilled, Overheated, and Starved Brood
pagenum: 19; title: Palsy or Paralysis
pagenum: 19; label: V.
title: The Large Bee or Wax Moth
pagenum: 20; title: “The Apiaries Act, 1907”
pagenum: 22; title: A Cheap Frame Hive
pagenum: 23; label: VI.
title: Spring Feeding of Bees
pagenum: 25; title: The Cause of Starvation
pagenum: 25; title: When and how to feed
pagenum: 26; title: Feeders
pagenum: 26; title: APICULTURE IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURE; title: Are Bees Trespassers?
pagenum: 27; title: Beneficial Influence of Bees on Agriculture
pagenum: 27; title: Can Bees harm the Soil or the Crops?
pagenum: 29; title: Saccharine Matter of Plants not derived from the Soil
pagenum: 29; title: Derived from the Atmosphere and Rain-water
pagenum: 30; title: Nectar of Plants intended to attract Insects
pagenum: 30; title: Sometimes thrown off as superfluous
pagenum: 31; title: Superfluous Nectar evaporated if not taken by Insects
pagenum: 32; title: Question as to Grazing stock
pagenum: 33; title: Quantity of Honey furnished by Pasture Land
pagenum: 33; title: Proportion possibly consumed by Stock
pagenum: 34; title: Beekeeping as a Branch of Farming
pagenum: 35