Bees and bee-keeping : a plain, practical work : resulting from years of experience and close observ...
Bees and bee-keeping : a plain, practical work : resulting from years of experience and close observation in extensive apiaries, both in Pennsylvania and California : with directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business, and for shipping bees to California / by W.C. Harbison, practical apiarian.
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New York : C.M. Saxton, Barker & Company, Agricultural Book Publishers, no. 25 Park Row, 1860.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 288 pages) : illustrations.
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
History and physiology of the honey bee -- Breeding of bees -- Wax -- Bee-bread, or pollen -- Honey -- The apiary -- Bee hives -- Honey boxes -- Bee pasturage -- Management of bees -- Artificial swarms -- Feeding -- Natural swarming -- How to make bees profitable -- Loss of queens -- Management of h...
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Publisher
New York : C.M. Saxton, Barker & Company, Agricultural Book Publishers, no. 25 Park Row, 1860.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1860.
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Bees and bee-keeping : a plain, practical work : resulting from years of experience and close observation in extensive apiaries, both in Pennsylvania and California : with directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business, and for shipping bees to California / by W.C. Harbison, practical apiarian.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II
Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
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74VKVEXkpkdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVEXkpkdl
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991024131591902626
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Gale Cengage Learning, Nineteenth Century Collections Online
