You are here
قراءة كتاب Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 2
Common Hive preferred,
BREEDING.
| Imperfectly Understood, | 62 |
| Good stocks seldom without brood, | 63 |
| How small stocks commence, | 64 |
| Different with larger ones, | 65 |
| How Pollen is stored in the breeding season, | 65 |
| Operation of Laying, and the Eggs described, | 66 |
| Time from the Egg to the perfect Bee, | 67 |
| Rough treatment of the young Bee, | 67 |
| Guess-work, | 68 |
| Terms applied to young Bees, | 69 |
| Discrepancy in time in rearing brood as given by Huber, | 70 |
| The number of Eggs deposited by the Queen guessed at, | 71 |
| A test for the presence of a Queen, | 73 |
| When Drones are reared, | 74 |
| When Queens, | 74 |
| Liability of being destroyed, | 76 |
| Drones destroyed when honey is scarce, | 77 |
| Old Queen leaves with the first swarm, | 78 |
| A young Queen takes the place of her mother in the old stock, | 79 |
| Other Theories, | 80 |
| Subject not understood, | 80 |
| Necessity for further observation, | 84 |
| Two sides of the question, | 85 |
BEE PASTURAGE.
| Substitute for Pollen, | 88 |
| Manner of packing it, | 89 |
| Alder yields the first, | 89 |
| Fruit Flowers important in good weather, | 91 |
| Red Raspberry a favorite, | 91 |
| Catnip, Mother-wort and Hoarhound, are sought after, | 92 |
| Singular fatality attendant on Silkweed, | 93 |
| Large yield from Basswood, | 96 |
| Garden Flowers unimportant, | 97 |
| Honey-dew, | 97 |
| Singular Secretion, | 98 |
| Secretions of the Aphis, | 98 |
| Advantages of Buckwheat, | 101 |
| Amount of honey collected from it, | 101 |
| Do Bees injure the crop? | 102 |
| Are not Bees an advantage to vegetation? | 103 |
| A test for the presence of Queen doubted, | 106 |
| An extra quantity of Pollen not always detrimental, | 107 |
| What combs are generally free from Bee-bread, | 108 |
| Manner of packing stores, | 108 |
| Philosophy in filling a cell with honey, | 109 |
| Long cells sometimes turned upward, | 110 |
| Is a dry or wet season best for honey? | 111 |
| How many Stocks should be kept, | 112 |
| Three principal sources of honey, | 112 |
WAX.
| Is Pollen converted into Wax? | 115 |
| How is it obtained? | 115 |
| Huber's account of a commencement of comb, | 117 |
| Best time to witness comb-making, | 118 |
| Manner of working Wax, | 119 |
| Are crooked Combs a disadvantage? | 120 |
| Uncertainty in weight of Bees, | 122 |
| Some wax wasted, | 124 |
| Water necessary in Comb-making, | 124 |
| Remarks, | 126 |
PROPOLIS.
| What used for, | 128 |
| Is it an elaborate or natural substance? | 129 |
| Huber's Opinion, | 129 |
| Further Proof, | 129 |
| Remarks, | 132 |
THE APIARY.
| Its location, | 132 |
| Decide Early, | 133 |
| Bees mark their location on leaving the hive, | 134 |
| Changing stand attended with loss, | 134 |
| Can be taken some distance, | 135 |
| Danger of setting Stocks too close, | 135 |
| Space between Hives, | 136 |
| Small Matters, | 136 |
| Economy, | 137 |
| Cheap arrangement of stands, | 138 |
| Canal Bottom-board discarded, | 139 |
| Some advantage in being near the earth, | 139 |