Author: Moses QuinbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bee culture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
Author: Moses QuinbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bee culture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained
Author: Quinby Moses 1810-1875Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018585888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: M. QuinbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781409907343
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Moses Quinby (1810-1875) was one of the first commercial beekeepers in the United States, a native of St. Johnsville, New York. Quinby established his business in his early 20s and expanded it to own about 1,200 hives in the Mohawk Valley, New York. Among his innovations in beekeeping, he is credited with the invention of the modern bee smoker with bellows. He is also the author of the book Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained (1853).
Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained
Author: Quinby Moses 1810-1875Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343066833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
Author: Moses QuinbyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The natural history of bees, directions for obtaining the greatest amount of pure surplus honey with the least possible expense. Remedies for losses given, and the science of "Luck" fully illustrated. The result of more than thirty years' experience in extensive apiaries.
Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained
Author: Moses QuimbyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979288736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Moses Quimby was a beekeeper for decades, and wrote this guidebook to pass on the practical knowledge he had accumulated tending to bees and their hives. We examine how to begin a hive, breed your first colony of bees, properly situate your apiary and assure that the bees are given good nutrition. Spacing the hives adequately, and protecting against common pests such as worms is discussed. How to obtain a queen, and what to do in the event a queen is lost, is paired with discussions of creating artificial swarms, that a colony's population may grow faster. The dangers of the hobby, in particular angering the bees and stings, form their own chapters. We learn how to calm an agitated swarm with smoke, and protect a swarm from agitators such as rats, mice and certain breeds of bird. Extremes of temperature can also threaten a hive; heat can melt a honeycomb to the point where it is unusable, while cold can kill a colony altogether. Quimby responds to all these potential calamities with sound advice grounded in his own personal experience. In the mid-19th century, beekeeping was already a refined process. A considerable community of hobbyists, including the author, enjoyed success gathering honey and overseeing large hives. Much of the advice within this manual remains useful and practical in the modern day, being as it is rooted in the biological, environmental and logistical realities of keeping bees.
Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained
Author: Moses QuinbyPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500342562
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Before the reader decides that an apology is necessary for the introduction of another work on bees into the presence of those already before the public, it is hoped that he will have the patience to examine the contents of this. The writer of the following pages commenced beekeeping in 1828, without any knowledge of the business to assist him, save a few directions about hiving, smoking them with sulphur, &c. Nearly all the information to be had was so mingled with erroneous whims and notions, that it required a long experience to separate essential and consistent points. It was impossible to procure a work that gave the information necessary for practice. From that time to the present, no sufficient guide for the inexperienced has appeared. European works, republished here, are of but little value. Weeks, Townley, Miner, and others, writers of this country, within a few years, have given us treatises, valuable to some extent, but have entirely neglected several chapters, very important and essential to the beginner. Keeping bees has been, and is now, by the majority, deemed a hazardous enterprise. The ravages of the moth had been so great, and loss so frequent, that but little attention was given to the subject for a long time. Mr. Weeks lost his entire stock three times in fifteen years. But soon after the discovery was promulgated, that honey could be taken from a stock without destroying the bees, an additional attention was manifest, increasing to a rage in many places. It seems to be easily understood, that profit must attend success, in this branch of the farmer's stock; inasmuch as the "bees work for nothing and find themselves." This interest in bees should be encouraged to continue till enough are kept to collect all the honey now wasted; which, compared with the present collections, would be more than a thousand pounds to one. But to succeed, that is the difficulty. Some eighteen years since, after a propitious season, an aged and esteemed friend said to me, "It is not to be expected that you will have such luck always; you must expect they will run out after a time. I have always noticed, when people have first-rate luck for a time, that the bees generally take a turn, and are gone in a few years."
Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained
Author: Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained
Author: Moses QuinbyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333123888
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Excerpt from Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained: Being a Complete Analysis of the Whole Subject It is supposed bv many that we already have all the knowledge that the subject of bees affords: This is not surprising. A person who was never furnished with a full treatise might arrive at such conclusions. Unless his own experience goes deeper, he can have no means of judging what is yet behind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Moses Quinby