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قراءة كتاب Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 3
ROBBERIES.
| Not properly understood, | 142 |
| Improper Remedies, | 143 |
| Difficulty in deciding, | 144 |
| Weak families in most danger, | 144 |
| Their Battles, | 145 |
| Bad policy to raise in Hives, | 146 |
| Indications of Robbers, | 146 |
| A Duty, | 147 |
| A Test, | 147 |
| Robbing usually commences on a warm day, | 148 |
| Remedies, | 149 |
| Common Opinion, | 149 |
| A case in point, | 149 |
| Further Directions, | 150 |
| Common cause of commencing, | 151 |
| Spring the worst time, | 152 |
| No necessity to have Bees plundered in the fall, | 153 |
FEEDING BEES.
| Should be a last resort, | 154 |
| Care needed, | 154 |
| Apparent contradiction when feeding causes starvation, | 155 |
| How long it will do to wait before feeding, | 156 |
| Directions for feeding, | 157 |
| Whole Families may desert the Hive, | 158 |
| Objections to general feeding, | 159 |
| Arrangement for feeding, | 159 |
| Feeding to induce early swarms, | 161 |
| What may be fed, | 162 |
| Is candied honey injurious? | 162 |
DESTRUCTION OF WORMS.
| Some in the best Stocks, | 164 |
| How Found, | 165 |
| A tool for their destruction, | 165 |
| Mistaken Conclusions, | 167 |
| Objections to suspended Bottom-board, | 167 |
| Advantage of the Hive close to the board, | 168 |
| Objection Answered, | 169 |
| Insufficiency of inclined Bottom-board | 169 |
| A Moth can go where Bees can, | 170 |
| Trap to catch Worms, | 170 |
| Box for Wren, | 171 |
PUTTING ON AND TAKING OFF BOXES.
| Advantage of the Patent Vender, | 172 |
| Time of putting on—Rule, | 172 |
| Making holes after the Hive is full, | 174 |
| Advantage of proper arrangement, | 174 |
| Directions for boring holes in full Stock, | 176 |
| To be taken off when filled, | 177 |
| Time taken to fill a box, | 178 |
| When to take off boxes part full, | 178 |
| Tobacco Smoke preferred to Slides, | 178 |
| Manner of disposing of the Bees in the boxes, | 179 |
| Bees disposed to carry away honey, | 179 |
| Not disposed to sting, | 180 |
| Rule, | 181 |
SECURING HONEY FROM THE MOTH.
| Two things to be prevented, | 181 |
| Apt to be deceived about the Worms, | 182 |
| Their progress described, | 182 |
| A Solution offered, | 183 |
| Method of killing Worms in boxes, | 185 |
| Freezing destroys them, | 186 |
| Objection to using Boxes before the Hive is full, | 187 |
SWARMING.
| Time to expect them, | 187 |
| All Bee-Keepers should understand it as it is, | 188 |
| Means of understanding it, | 188 |
| Inverting a stock rather formidable at first, | 189 |
| Requisites before preparation of Queen's cells, | 189 |
| State of Queen-cell when used, | 190 |
| State when swarms issue, | 190 |
| Clustering outside not always to be depended upon, | 191 |
| Examinations—the result, | 191 |
| Remarks, | 192 |
| Conflicting Theories, | 192 |
| Both Old and Young leave with swarms, | 192 |
| Cause of the Queen's inability to fly suggested, | 193 |
| Evidence of the Old Queen's leaving, | 193 |
| Mr. Weeks's Theory not satisfactory, | 194 |