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First Lessons in Beekeeping
"A single bee, with all its energy, collects but a tiny drop of honey at each trip to the field, in the best season, yet the colony to which it belongs may harvest hundreds of pounds of surplus for its owner, in a single year." Charles Dadant, father of the author of First Lessons in Beekeeping, C.P. Dadant was widely known as a preeminent force in beekeeping throughout Europe. "In France, "Dadant" and "Dadant hive" are household words among beekeepers." When C.P. Dadant published First Lessons in Beekeeping in 1917, he was the Editor of the American Bee Journal. Many of the articles published by the journal were practical guides which blend well with this work; in it Dadant combines numerous photos with hundreds of illustrations to tell the story of the bee, the hive and the honey produced inside as well as explaining the methodology behind creating and tending the hive professionally. With extensive content on varieties of bees, establishing your apiary, production and even marketing of the honey, First Lessons in Beekeeping blends fact, observation and know-how gleaned from nearly one hundred years of experience into an easy to understand volume. The tenth edition was published by American Bee Journal in 1934.
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Who Should Keep Bees?
The care of an apiary is well adapted to furnish recreation to men of sedentary professions, lawyers, ministers, doctors and teachers especially, who are often at leisure during the summer months when the bees require the greatest amount of attention, and who may thus add quite a little to their income. Ladies may keep bees, and often succeed better than men, because they pay more attention to details. “The bee-business is a business of details.” It has been stated that the handling of heavy hives or supers full of honey is too hard for women but it is easy to secure occasional help to do the heavy lifting required only when the honey crop is good.
Patience, persistence before discouragements, neatness and foresight are the requirements of an apiarist. You must also learn to handle bees without fear, if you expect to enjoy the work. This is not difficult and directions will be found in another chapter (74). Very little capital is required, for the business must be learned on a small scale.
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3 Websites out there for Beekeeping and 1 cool video from a guy in Nebraska!
1. Basic Beekeeping
2. Discover Beekeeping
3. Bee Class
Beekeeping 101
A central Nebraska beekeeper discusses his operation and efforts to raise bees in ways, which are dictated by the needs of the bees and not our own
http://youtu.be/AXfW14n-JYM
