The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ManagementW. Blackwood and Sons, 1870 - 193 páginas |
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... experience well know that these necessary excursions are not unattended with risk , and sometimes with loss . It is well for the bee - keeper that his queens , when timely impregnated , never require the drone again as long as they live ...
... experience well know that these necessary excursions are not unattended with risk , and sometimes with loss . It is well for the bee - keeper that his queens , when timely impregnated , never require the drone again as long as they live ...
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... experience , and a vigorous thinker , who can take nothing for granted . Somewhere in his book he shrewdly remarks that his bees do not behave like those of other people - meaning thereby that his experience is at variance with many ...
... experience , and a vigorous thinker , who can take nothing for granted . Somewhere in his book he shrewdly remarks that his bees do not behave like those of other people - meaning thereby that his experience is at variance with many ...
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... experience that the eggs of a queen , timely impregnated , ever become incapable of hatching into workers and queens . Take another statement of Mr W. " The ovaries of a queen bee are never impregnated , the male semen being 22 22 HANDY ...
... experience that the eggs of a queen , timely impregnated , ever become incapable of hatching into workers and queens . Take another statement of Mr W. " The ovaries of a queen bee are never impregnated , the male semen being 22 22 HANDY ...
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... experience . There is the hum of contentment and the hum of trouble -the hum of peace and the hum of war - the hum of attack and the hum of defence - the hum of plenty and the buzz of starvation - the hum of joy and the roar of grief ...
... experience . There is the hum of contentment and the hum of trouble -the hum of peace and the hum of war - the hum of attack and the hum of defence - the hum of plenty and the buzz of starvation - the hum of joy and the roar of grief ...
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... experience consider them a hindrance to good management , and objectionable in many senses . We have nothing to say in their favour , save this , that they help to protect hives from the severity of winter storms . Of course there are ...
... experience consider them a hindrance to good management , and objectionable in many senses . We have nothing to say in their favour , save this , that they help to protect hives from the severity of winter storms . Of course there are ...
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The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Visualização integral - 1870 |
The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Visualização integral - 1870 |
The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Visualização integral - 1875 |
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12 inches 16-inch hive ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON amongst apiary artificial swarming Atlas autumn bee-hives bee-keepers bees go better Carluke CHAPTER cold commence covered crown 8vo DAVID PAGE doors drone-cells drone-comb drones Edinburgh eggs ekes empty hive Engravings favourable Fcap feeding filled flight-board flowers garden GEORGE ELIOT hatch HISTORY hives placed honey honey gathered honey-gathering honeycomb Illustrations inches deep JOHN HILL BURTON keep large hives leave their hives miles mother hive nadir never non-swarming old hive placed post 8vo Professor queen bee reader ready to swarm royal cells Scotland season Second Edition second swarms seen SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON small hives sometimes speedily stock-hives straw hives strong hives sugar supers swarming system syrup tion University of Edinburgh vols weather weight white clover winter wood workers yield young bees young queens
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