The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1866]: Being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of management, with full directions, adapted for the cottager, farmer, or scientific apiarianNeighbor, Alfred
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The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1866]: Being a familiar account of the habits of bees, and the most improved methods of management, with full directions, adapted for the cottager, farmer, or scientific apiarian
Neighbour's unicomb observatory:--
Description and application of 98
Exhibited in Paris, 1855 101
Prize medal 101
Neighbour's single-box:--
Description of and directions for 63
Keep glass warm 65
Nutt's collateral:--
Description of 51
Taking surplus honey 58
Stewarton hive:--
Description of 109
Directions for management 112
Nadir box, value of 117
Extra boxes required 118
Taylor's improved cottage:--
Description of 96
Taylor's amateur's eight-bar wood:--
Description of 65
Stand for ditto 67
Taylor's eight-bar straw 96
Woodbury bar and frame:--
Description of 84
Straw ditto 85
Glass ditto 88
Special advantages of straw 86
Origin of 86
Manipulation with 157
Super 93
Putting on 162
Woodbury Unicomb:--
Construction of 102
Modes of tenanting 106, 107
How transferred to box-hive 108
Bee-houses, advantage of 123
---- engravings of houses to contain twelve hives 126, 127
---- object of colouring alighting-boards 126
---- loss of queens 127
Bee-house to contain nine hives, engraving 128
Bell-glasses 133
Bottle-feeder 140
---- directions for using 142
Breathing of bees 43
Brood, royal 9, 175, 179
---- wire cover for (engraving of) 175
C.
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