. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. A (JLASS-SIDEI) "OBSERVATION IIIVE" IS IJOTH A PLEASURE AM) A (IKEAT HELP IN STUDYING YOUR HEES Chaptp:r III HOW TO MAKE A START Hindsight is better than foresight, therefore, start right. —Farmer Vincent. There are several ways in which the reader may make a start keeping boes. One way is to buy a few hives of bees from a neighboring beekeeper, or a dealer, and with the aid of new hives make artificial increase by dividing and shaking the bees. Another way is to purchase bees in old box
. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. A (JLASS-SIDEI) "OBSERVATION IIIVE" IS IJOTH A PLEASURE AM) A (IKEAT HELP IN STUDYING YOUR HEES Chaptp:r III HOW TO MAKE A START Hindsight is better than foresight, therefore, start right. —Farmer Vincent. There are several ways in which the reader may make a start keeping boes. One way is to buy a few hives of bees from a neighboring beekeeper, or a dealer, and with the aid of new hives make artificial increase by dividing and shaking the bees. Another way is to purchase bees in old box hives in the fall, and in the spring transfer them to modern hives. A third way is to buy a complete apiary, a method I should not advise; for, apart from the expense involved, it would be the height of folly to invest a lot of money in such an enterprise, without the requisite experience. The best way is to start on a small scale and increase your colonies as you become more ex- perienced, and in two or three years you will be able to handle successfully many colonies, whereas at the beginning they would but result in failure. It It is the purpose to make beekeeping a profes- sion, then spend a season or two in the yards <)f :i successful beekeeper; thus the beginner will learn more in one season than by years of unaided work. By all means get the bees into modem liives as soon as possible, for by so doing disease can be avoided and the work of the apiary carried on expeditiously. The various methods of transferring are treated in the chapter on Spring Manii)ulation. (21). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson Co.
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