Chapter 1 



Chapter 



Chapter 3. 



Chapter 4. 



Chapter 5. 



Chapter 6. 



Chapter 7. 



Chapter S. 



Chapter 9. 



Chapter 10. 

 Chapter 11. 

 Chapter 12. 



Chapter 13. 

 Chapter 14. 



CONTENTS 



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Early experiments — Natural History. 1 



The Queen 5 



The worker-bee 6 



Size of Hives. 9 



The large hive 10 



Small hives 14 



Safety in wintering 20 



Frame spacing 21 



The supers 23 



Side storage 26 



Queen excluders 26 



Drones and Drone Production. 29 



The Dadant Hive 35 



A simplified Dadant hive 42 



Hive making - 46 



Handling Bees. 47 



Our Apiaries. 49 



Outapiaries 52 



Apiary Management. 55 



Spring 56 



The honey crop 57 



Increase 57 



Queens for increase 58 



Swarm Prevention and Supering. 65 



Prevention of natural swarming 65 



Putting on supers 72 



Extracting. 75 



Extracting implements 80 



Robbing...- S5 



Varying honey crops 87 



Requeening 88 



Queen Introduction 89 



Nomadic Beekeeping. 91 



Fall Management. 97 



Wintering. 99 



Cellar wintering 100 



Our house cellar 101 



Wintering in clamps 102 



Wintering out-of-doors 102 



Diseases of Bees. 107 



Enemies of Bees. 113 



