10 Beekeeper Beekeeping Books Make Beehive Keep Bees CD

The Ultimate Collection of

Beekeeping Classics

How to Keep Bees: A Beginner's Handbook

The Beekeeping Book

The Practical Methods of Queen Rearing

How to Build a Bar & Frame Beehive

1000 Beekeeping Questions and Answers

It is amazing how little has changed in the world of beekeeping.

Sure there have been changes, but overall things are being done today much in the same way they have been done since the Langstrogh hive was invented. Therefore, this ultimate collection of beekeeping classics has as much practical advice as the most modern books, despite the fact that all books were written around 100 years ago.

PDF Reprint #1

265 Pages

How to Keep Bees: A Beginner's Handbook

Originally published in 1900s, this book has been prepared especially to meet the needs of the beginner in beekeeping. It is not intended to be a complete treatise for the professional apiarist, but rather a handbook for those who would keep bees for happiness and honey, and incidentally for money. It is hoped, too, that it will serve as an introduction to the more extended manuals already in the field.

When we began beekeeping we found the wide range of information and varying methods given in the manuals confusing; but a little experience taught us that beekeeping is a simple and delightful business which can be carried on in a modest way without a great amount of special training. After a beginning has been made, skill in managing the bees is gained naturally and inevitably, and interest is then stimulated by the wider outlook which bewilders the novice.

For the sake of simplicity this book is restricted to knowledge gained in practical experience in a small apiary; and the writer has sought to exclude from it those discussions which, however enlightening to the experienced, are after all but devious digressions from the simple and straight path which the feet of the inexperienced must tread to success in the apiary.

Please note: This excellent PDF Reprint is a high-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1900s.

Contents Covered

Why Keep Bees
How to Begin Beekeeping
The Location and the Arrangement of the Apiary
The Inhabitants of the Hive
The Industries of the Hive
The Swarming of Bees
How to Keep from Keeping Too Many Bees
The Hive and How to Handle It
Details Concerning Honey
Extracted Honey
Points about Beeswax
Feeding Bees
How to Winter Bees
Rearing and Introducing Queens
Robbing in the Apiary
The Enemies and Diseases of Bees
The Anatomy of the Honey Bee
Interrelation of Bees and Plants
Beekeepers and Beekeeping
Bee-Hunting

PDF Reprint #2

485 Pages

The Beekeeping Book

Originally published in 1910s, this book presents a logical discussion of the various phases of the complex subject of beekeeping, from the life of the honeybee to the production of honey. It was not planned as a book of rules to which one may go for directions for each day's work, for beekeeping cannot be treated correctly in such a way.

The activities of bees vary during the seasons and no two localities present to the bees and their owners exactly the same environmental conditions, so that the successful beekeeper is one who has a knowledge of the activities of bees, whereby he can interpret what he sees in the hives from day to day, and who can mold the instincts of the bees to his convenience and profit.

It's the author's hope that this book would be as helpful to beekeepers as the cordial assistance.

Please note: This excellent PDF Reprint is a high-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1910s.

Contents Covered

Beekeeping as an Occupation
Apparatus
The Colony and Its Organization
The Cycle of the Year
The Life of the Individual in Relation to the Colony
The Life Processes of the Individual
The Nervous System and the Senses
The Reproductive Processes and Parthenogenesis
Races of Bees
Regional Differences within the United States
The First Steps in Beekeeping
The Apiary Site
The Manipulation of Bees
Spring Management
Swarm Control and Increase
The Production of Extracted-Honey
The Production of Comb-Honey
Marketing the Honey Crop
The Production and Care of Beeswax
The Care of Bees in Winter
The Sources of Nectar and Pollen
Bee Diseases and Enemies
The Rearing of Queens
Miscellaneous Information

PDF Reprint #3

105 Pages

The Practical Methods of Queen Rearing

The author had the privilege of visiting many of the most extensive queen breeders of America, both north and south, and tried to present all the best methods of practice in use in these various.

Although the book was originally published in 1910s, most of queen rearing methods described have been very practical to date.

"The book is small, as it is thought wise to make the descriptions brief and to the point, rather than to elaborate them fully. Beekeepers are usually busy men, and want facts presented as simply and directly as possible in a book of this kind", said the author.

Please note: This excellent PDF Reprint is a high-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1910s.

Contents Covered

Race of Bees
Varieties of Mellifica
Black or German Bees
The Cyprian Bee
The Holy-Land Bees or Syrians
The Italian Bee
Carniolans
Caucasians
Banat Bees
Tunisian or Punic Bees
Egyptians
Other Races
Life Story of the Bee
Life of the Queen
The Drone
Queen Rearing In Nature
Improvement of Stock by Breeding
Desirable Traits in Breeding Stock
Control of Drones
Mating In Confinement a Failure
Parthenogenesis
Equipment for Queen Rearing
Grafting House
Mating Hives
Feeders
Nursery Cages
Shipping Cages
Early Methods of Queen Rearing
Present Day Methods of Queen Rearing
The Davis Method of Using Drone Comb
Natural Built Cells by the Miller Plan
Big Batches of Cells by the Case Method
The Doolittle Cell-Cup Method
Preparation for Cells
Getting Cells Started
Care of Finished Cells
Combining Mating With Making of Increase
Shipping Queens
The Introduction of Queens
The Spread of Disease from the Queen Yard

PDF Reprint #4

52 Pages

How to Build a Bar & Frame Beehive

Second Edition

Nowadays, many types of modern, fancy beehive boxes are readily available for purchase from beekeeping suppliers. However, if you are happy to use those old-fashioned, simple bar-and-frame beehives, then you could easily make your own because pretty much you only need some wood and basic carpentry experience.

Originally published in 1850s, this practical instructional booklet completely describes how to build a classic bar-and-frame beehive. Just follow the instructions to construct your own hive boxes then you are ready to bring in the bees!

Please note: This excellent PDF Reprint is a high-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1850s.

Contents Covered

The Bar-and-Frame Hive
Hives and Bee-boxes
The Apiary
The Enemies to Bees, etc
Swarming and Hiving the Bees

PDF Reprint #5

280 Pages

1000 Beekeeping Questions and Answers

For over 20 years as a popular advice columnist for American Bee Journal, the author has answered the queries of subscribers almost every subject in beekeeping has been touched. His wide experience, his inimitable style, and the clearness with which he writes have made these answers invaluable.

This volume is a compilation of 1,000 beekeeping questions and answers, culled out of many thousands and arranged in alphabetical order for convenience. Its object is not to supplant existing textbooks on beekeeping, but rather to supplement them.

Below are just 10 sample questions from this compilation:

• How many colonies of bees can be kept in one apiary?
• I have a colony of bees that is very cross, and one that is very tame. How could I introduce a queen from the tame colony to the cross one so as to make them all tame?
• What can I do for wax-worms in bees?
• I build my own hives. Is it necessary to have bee-space between cover and brood-frames? I find some hives do not have this.
• What is the best remedy for a bee sting?
• I have six colonies of bees. The smaller ones are bothered with large, black ants. Is there any way of stopping them?
• Is there any way to tell the age of a queen, and also how old should a queen be allowed to get?
• What is the best way to find and catch the queen in a box-hive?
• How to keep the bees of a swarm from swarming out again? I lost several swarms this summer by their swarming out.
• What is the best method of producing beeswax? I want beeswax instead of honey.

Please note: This excellent PDF Reprint is a high-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1910s.

Bonus #1

PDF Reprint

422 Pages

The Life of the Bee

On the Threshold of the Hive
The Swarm
The Foundation of the City
The Life of the Bee
The Young Queens
The Nuptial Flight
The Massacre of the Males
The Progress of the Race

Bonus #2

PDF Reprint

421 Pages

Theory and Practice of Bee Culture

Experience in Bee-Keeping
Introduction of the Honey Bee to California
The Honey Bee: Classification, Physiology and Characteristics
Diseases
Enemies
Taming Bees
Hives
Choice of Stock
Pasturage
The Apiary
Honey
Pollen, or Bee-Bread
Propolis
Bees-Wax
Swarming
Forced Swarming
Colonizing
Comb
Transferring
Feeding
Robbery
Over-Stocking
Transportation
Wintering Bees
Monthly Management
Italian Honey Bee
Stingless Honey Bee

Bonus #3

PDF Reprint

157 Pages

Beehives and Beekeepers' Appliances

Introduction: A Bar-frame Beehive
Temporary Beehive
Tiering Bar-frame Beehive
The "W.B.C." Beehive
Furnishing and Stocking a Beehive
Observatory Beehive for Permanent Use
Observatory Beehive for Temporary Use
Inspection Case for Beehives
Hive for Rearing Queen Bees
Super-clearers
Bee Smokers
Honey Extractors
Wax Extractors
Bee Keepers' Miscellaneous Appliances

Bonus #4

PDF Reprint

120 Pages

Dadant System of Bee Keeping

Early experiments -- Natural History
The Queen
The worker-bee
Size of Hives
The large hive
Small hives
Safety in wintering
Frame spacing
The supers
Side storage
Queen excluders
Drones and Drone Production
The Dadant Hive
A simplified Dadant hive
Hive making
Handling Bees
Our Apiaries
Outapiaries
Apiary Management
Spring
The honey crop
Increase
Queens for increase
Swarm Prevention and Supering
Prevention of natural swarming
Putting on supers
Extracting
Extracting implements
Robbing
Varying honey crops
Requeening
Queen Introduction
Nomadic Beekeeping
Fall Management
Wintering
Cellar wintering
Our house cellar
Wintering in clamps
Wintering out-of-doors
Diseases of Bees
Enemies of Bees

Bonus #5

PDF Reprint

356 Pages

How to Keep Bees for Profit

Bees -- Fruit -- Honey and Money
Physiology of the Honey Bee
Races of Bees
The Home of the Bees
The Bee Family
How to Start Beekeeping -- Hives and Tools Transferring Bees
How to Quiet and Handle Bees -- How to Avoid Stings -- Remedies
Why Bees Swarm -- How to Hive a Swarm -- How to Control Swarming
Raising Queen Bees -- How to Introduce a Queen
How to Produce Comb Honey
How to Produce Extracted Honey
How to Make Increase
Location of the Apiary -- Our Apiaries -- Moving Bees
Diseases and Enemies of Bees
Marketing the Honey Crop
Beeswax -- Its Uses -- How to Render It
Honey as a Food and Medicine
Robber Bees -- How to Prevent Robbing
Feeding
How to Winter Bees Successfully
Sources of Honey

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