The book is arranged in two parts. The first part is intended to serve as a general guide to beekeeping throughout the first year or so. In the second part, the more technical and advanced information likely to prove of service in later years is contained. The first twelve chapters are intended to be read as a whole, as they are written to cover the activities of the bees and the beekeeper throughout the cycle of one year.

Table of Contents..

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Part One

1. Beekeeping Beginnings
2. Bee Behaviour
3. Handling Bees
4. Spring Comes to the Hive
5. The Swarming of the Bees
6. The Behaviour of Swarming Bees
7. The parent colony
8. The Honey Flow
9. The Harvest of the Hive
10. Autumn in the Apiary
11. Wintering Bees
12. Health in the Hive

Part Two

1. Bee Anatomy
2. Bee Flowers
3. Modern Methods of Swarm Control
4. Queen Raising and Queen Introduction
5. The Effect of Fruit-Tree Spraying on Bees
6. Honey and its Virtues
7. Hives and their Measurements

Bee Bibliography

Index

A Guide to the Bee Flowers of Britain