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The hive and the honey bee : a new book on beekeeping which succeeds the book "Langstroth on the hive and the honeybee"

Title
The hive and the honey bee : a new book on beekeeping which succeeds the book "Langstroth on the hive and the honeybee" / edited by Roy A. Grout with the collaboration of a staff of specialists Robert Banker, Dr. C.G. Butler, G.H Cale, Sr., Dr. G.H. Cale, Jr., Dr. Eva Crane, H.C. Dadant, M.G. Dadant, Dr. J.E. Eckert, Dr. C.L. Farrar, Dr. T.A. Gochnauer, Ray A. Grout, Dr. M.H. Haydak, C.E. Killion, Dr. H.B. Lovell, Dr. F. Ruttner, Dr. R.E. Snodgrass, and Dr. J.W. White, Junior.
Publication
Hamilton, Illinois : Dadant & Sons, 1963.

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Additional Authors
  • Grout, Roy A., 1908-1974
  • Banker, Robert
  • Butler, Colin G. (Colin Gasking)
  • Cale, Gladstone H.
  • Cale, Gladstone H., Jr
  • Crane, Eva
  • Dadant, Henry C.
  • Dadant, M. G. (Maurice George)
  • Eckert, John Edward, 1895-
  • Farrar, Clayton L.
  • Gochnauer, Thomas A.
  • Haydak, Mykola H.
  • Killion, Carl Everest, 1899-
  • Lovell, Harvey B. (Harvey Bulfinch), 1904-
  • Ruttner, Friedrich
  • Snodgrass, R. E. (Robert E.), 1875-1962
  • Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895.
Description
xvii, 556 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Bee culture
  • Honeybee
  • Honey
  • Honeybee > Diseases
  • Bees
  • Honey
  • Apis mellifera (species)
  • honey
Note
  • "Extensively revised, 1963"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Beekeeping past and present -- Races of bees -- The honey-bee colony, life history -- Activities of honey bees -- The anatomy of the honey bee -- Sources of nectar and pollen -- First considerations in keeping bees -- Beekeeping equipment -- The apiary -- Management for honey production -- Extracting the honey crop -- Production of comb and bulk comb honey -- The overwintering of productive colonies -- Honey -- Marketing the honey crop -- The production and uses of beeswax -- The production of queens, package bees, and royal jelly -- The honey bee as a pollinating agent -- Diseases and enemies of the honey bee -- Injury to bees by poisoning -- Index.
LCCN
63015838
OCLC
  • ocm01574386
  • 1574386
  • SCSB-36529
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library