The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ManagementW. Blackwood and Sons, 1870 - 193 páginas |
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... covering our corn- fields with its yellow flowers , is an invaluable thing for bees . In Derbyshire this plant is called ketlock , in Lanarkshire it is called skelloch , and in Wigtownshire it is termed ranches . Here , in Lancashire ...
... covering our corn- fields with its yellow flowers , is an invaluable thing for bees . In Derbyshire this plant is called ketlock , in Lanarkshire it is called skelloch , and in Wigtownshire it is termed ranches . Here , in Lancashire ...
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... covering them . Milk - pans are in common use in many parts . With small hives they answer in summer , but they are a mis- erable protection in winter . For cheapness and con- venience , anything at hand that will shed the rain off ...
... covering them . Milk - pans are in common use in many parts . With small hives they answer in summer , but they are a mis- erable protection in winter . For cheapness and con- venience , anything at hand that will shed the rain off ...
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... covering , but plenty of under flannels . Thousands of hives are starved to death for want of food , and thousands more for want of sufficient winter covering . CHAPTER XX . STINGS . IF bees had not been 100 HANDY BOOK OF BEES .
... covering , but plenty of under flannels . Thousands of hives are starved to death for want of food , and thousands more for want of sufficient winter covering . CHAPTER XX . STINGS . IF bees had not been 100 HANDY BOOK OF BEES .
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... , for the bees like both warmth and darkness . Bees will not build combs in glass supers , or even remain in them , if they are not warmly covered . CHAPTER XXIV . EKES . CAN bees be prevented from 116 HANDY BOOK OF BEES .
... , for the bees like both warmth and darkness . Bees will not build combs in glass supers , or even remain in them , if they are not warmly covered . CHAPTER XXIV . EKES . CAN bees be prevented from 116 HANDY BOOK OF BEES .
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... covered with fresh cow - dung , which speedily hardens and cements the two together . Straw ekes , like straw hives , are much better than wooden ones . At present we use riddle - rims for eking because we have none of straw . The sides ...
... covered with fresh cow - dung , which speedily hardens and cements the two together . Straw ekes , like straw hives , are much better than wooden ones . At present we use riddle - rims for eking because we have none of straw . The sides ...
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