قراءة كتاب Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
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WINTERING BEES.
Different methods have been adopted, | 325 |
The idea of Bees not freezing has led to errors in practice, | 326 |
Appearance of Bees in cold weather, | 326 |
How part of the swarm is frozen, | 327 |
How a small family may all freeze, | 327 |
Frost and Ice sometimes smother Bees, | 328 |
Frost and Ice in a Hive accounted for, | 329 |
The effect of Ice or Frost on Bees and Comb, | 330 |
Frost may cause starvation, | 330 |
Other Difficulties, | 330 |
Further Illustrations, | 332 |
Accumulation of Fæces described by some writers as a disease, | 336 |
The Author's remedy, | 337 |
Buying Bees, | 337 |
Experiments of the Author to get rid of the Frost, | 338 |
Success in this matter, | 338 |
Bees when in the house should be kept perfectly dark, | 339 |
A room made for wintering Bees, | 339 |
Manner of stowing away Hives, | 340 |
Temperature of room, | 341 |
Too much Honey may sometimes be stored, | 342 |
Management of room towards Spring, | 342 |
Time for setting out Bees, | 343 |
Not too many stocks taken out at once, | 343 |
Families may be equalized, | 344 |
Snow need not always prevent carrying out Bees, | 344 |
Does not Analogy prove that Bees should be kept warm in Winter? | 345 |
The next best place for wintering Bees, | 346 |
Evils of wintering in the open air considered, | 347 |
But little risk with good stocks, | 348 |
Effect of keeping second-rate stocks out of the sun, | 348 |
Effects of Snow considered, | 349 |
Stocks to be protected on some occasions, | 350 |
Do the Bees eat more when allowed to come out occasionally in Winter? | 352 |
SAGACITY OF BEES.
Are not Bees directed alone by instinct? | 353 |
What they do with Propolis, | 353 |
Mending broken Combs, | 354 |
Making passages to every part of their Combs, | 355 |
STRAINING HONEY AND WAX.
Methods of removing Combs from the Hive, | 357 |
Different modes of straining Honey, | 358 |
Getting out Wax—different methods, | 360 |
PURCHASING STOCKS AND TRANSPORTING BEES.
Why the word luck is applied to Bees, | 362 |
Rule in taking Bees for a share, | 364 |
A man may sell his "luck," | 364 |
First-rate stocks recommended to begin with, | 365 |
Old stocks are good as any if healthy, | 365 |
Caution respecting diseased brood, | 366 |
Result of ignorance in purchasing, | 366 |
Size of Hives important, | 367 |
How large Hives can be made smaller, | 368 |
Moderate weather best to remove Bees, | 369 |
Preparations for transporting Bees, | 370 |
Securing Bees in the Hive, | 370 |
Best Conveyance, | 370 |
Hive to be inverted, | 371 |
Conclusion, | 372 |
PREFACE.
Before the reader decides that an apology is necessary for the introduction of another work on bees into the presence of those already before the public, it is hoped that he will have the patience to examine the contents of this.
The writer of the following pages commenced beekeeping in 1828, without any knowledge of the business to assist him, save a few directions about hiving, smoking them with sulphur, &c. Nearly all the information to be had was so mingled with erroneous whims and notions, that it required a long experience to separate essential and consistent points. It was impossible to procure a work that gave the information necessary for practice. From that time to the present, no sufficient guide for the inexperienced has appeared. European works, republished here, are of but little value. Weeks, Townley, Miner, and others, writers of this country, within a few years, have given us treatises, valuable to some extent, but have entirely neglected several chapters, very important and essential to the beginner. Keeping bees has been, and is now, by the majority, deemed a hazardous enterprise. The