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ISBN 10:  0486828840
ISBN 13: 978-0486828848
Author:      Camille Pierre Dadant

First Lessons in Beekeeping 1st Table of contents:

1. The races of bees

2. A colony of bees

3. The queen

4. She leaves the hive to mate

5. Egg-laying

6. Rearing queen cells

7. Royal jelly

8. Ovaries of the queen

9. Parthenogenesis

10. Breeding season

11. The drones

12. Their appearance and numbers

13. Loses his life in mating

14. When destroyed

15. Eyes of the drone

16. Do drones serve another purpose?

17. The workers

18. The head and eyes

19. Mandibles

20. Tongue

21. Salivary glands

22. Antennæ

23. Honey sac

24. Wings

25. Legs and claws

26. Anterior legs

27. Pollen baskets

28. Worker ovaries

29. The sting

30. Length of life

31. Brood

32. The egg

33. Food of larvæ

34. Appearance of brood

35. Time required

36. First flight of workers

37. Duration of development

38. Wax and comb

39. Production of wax

40. Speed of production

41. Shape and dimensions of cells

42. Location of queen cells

43. Of same color as the comb

44. Thickness of comb

45. Cells not horizontal

46. Cost of comb

47. Color of combs

48. Propolis

49. Honey

50. Contains water

51. Its quantity, quality and color

52. Honeydew

53. Honey evaporation

54. Capping

55. Pollen

56. Substitutes

57. Stored in brood combs

58. Bees help fertilization of fruit

59. Water

Establishing an Apiary

60. Wonderful habits of bees

61. Who should keep bees?

62. Suitable location

63. Shelter the apiary

64. Plant fruit trees in apiary

65. Keep weeds down

66. Facing south

67. How many to begin with

68. Moving bees

69. Moving short distances

70. What kind of bees to get

71. Examining box-hives

72. Buying swarms

73. Shade for hives

74. Handling bees

75. Smoke and smokers

76. Veils and gloves

77. When stung

78. Remedies for bee stings

79. Bee poison for rheumatism

80. How to be safe

81. A hive tool

82. Removing propolis from the hands

83. Removing bees from the combs or frames

84. Robber bees

85. Remedies for robbing

86. Avoiding robbing

87. Indications of robbing

Hives

88. What hive to use

89. The Langstroth hive

90. Hive details

91. Different styles

92. Frames

93. Capacity of hives. Use but one size

94. Transferring bees

95. Short method

Swarming and Queen-Rearing

96. Natural swarms

97. Preventing afterswarms

98. The queen’s actions

99. How to hive a swarm

100. Afterswarms

101. Prevention of natural swarming

102. Queen traps

103. Prevention by manipulations

104. Artificial increase

105. Queen-rearing

106. Breed from best queens

107. Nuclei

108. Inserting queen cells

109. How to prevent bees from leaving

110. When queen is fertile

111. Dividing the colonies

112. Enlarging nuclei

113. Exchanging with populous colony

114. Ordinary dividing

115. Bees recognizing one another

116. Watching queenless colonies

117. Keeping a record

118. Loss of the queen

119. Bees discover it quickly

120. Care of queenless colony

121. Drone-laying workers

Improvement in Honeybees

122. Selection

123. The Italian bees

124. Italianizing an apiary

125. To introduce a queen

126. Queen-cages

127. The Miller cage

128. Smoke versus cage methods

129. Safest method of introduction

130. Clipping the queen’s wing

131. Purchasing queens

Comb Foundation and its Uses

132. Wonderful economy of honeycomb

133. Cost of comb

134. Manufacture

135. How foundation is made

136. Different grades

137. Thin sheets for sections

138. Brood foundation

139. Advantages of use of foundation

140. Must be of pure beeswax

141. Fastening comb foundation

142. Preserve the wax

143. Rendering beeswax

144. Solar wax-extractor

Production of Choice Honey

145. Honey of North America unexcelled

146. Honey in the comb

147. Bulk comb honey

148. One-pound sections

149. Plain sections and separators

150. Supers for sections

151. Sections supplied with foundation

152. The honey harvest

153. Supers on a colony which swarmed

154. Queen excluders

155. Adding more supers

156. Get all sections sealed

157. Keep different crops separate

158. Removing honey from the hive

159. The bee-escape

160. Invention of the extractor

161. How the extractor is used

162. Extracting supers

163. The honey must be ripe

164. Removing with bee-escape

165. When to extract

166. Do not extract from brood-chamber

167. Reversible extractors

168. Uncapping-knife

169. Steam-heated knife

170. Power extractor and honey pump

171. How to extract

172. The honey cappings

Wintering and Feeding Bees

173. Wintering indoors and outdoors

174. Cellar-wintering

175. Placing hives in cellar

176. Keep them quiet at right temperature

177. Darkness not indispensable

178. Good ventilation

179. When to take them in and out

180. Wintering in clamps

181. Special cellars

182. Outdoor wintering

183. Pack them properly

184. Passageway over frames

185. Ample stores needed

186. Feeding. Honey and fruit juice unhealthy

187. Spring feeding

188. Feed honey or best sugar syrup

189. Foreign honey dangerous

190. Good honey best

191. Feeders

192. Syrup for winter food

193. Syrup for spring use

194. Sugar-candy

195. Helping weak colonies

196. Uniting worthless colonies

Bee Pasturage

197. Bee pasturage

198. The linden or basswood

199. The tulip tree

200. The willow

201. Black locust

202. Fruit trees

203. Plants for field

204. Roads and wasteland

205. White clover

206. Sweet clover

207. Alsike clover

208. Alfalfa

209. Mustard

210. Buckwheat

211. Weeds as honey producers

Observation Hives

212. Studying the habits of bees

Enemies of Bees

213. Enemies are few

214. The beemoth

215. Remedy and prevention

Diseases of Bees and Treatment

216. Foulbrood

217. American foulbrood symptoms

218. McEvoy treatment

219. European foulbrood

220. Symptoms

221. Treatment

222. Pickled-brood

223. May disease

224. Diarrhea

Marketing Honey

225. Comb honey is preferred

226. Assort and grade the honey

227. Management of comb honey

228. Cases for comb honey

229. Shipping comb honey

230. Management of extracted honey

231. Melting granulated honey

232. Where to keep honey

233. Ripening honey

234. Tanks for honey

235. Tin pails

236. Glass jars and tumblers

237. Square cans for shipping

Honey as a Food

238. Honey can replace sugar

239. Honey to sweeten drinks

240. Is honey a luxury?

241. Honey vinegar

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