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Bee Hunting: A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters

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Bee Hunting: A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters

John Ready Lockard

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Follow a wild swarm to its hollow tree by watching where the workers drink. John Lockard shares a lifetime of bee hunting: tracking bees from sumac and water in early spring, the old hunter's tricks, and the patient art of finding hidden honey. Woodcraft and folk skill from a vanishing pursuit. Learn to read the flight of a single bee back to its treasure.

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19 chapters

  1. 1BEE HUNTING
  2. 2A BOOK OF VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR BEE HUNTERS--TELL HOW TO LINE BEES TO TREES, ETC. BY JOHN R. LOCKARD
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4SOME MEMORIES OF BEE HUNTING
  5. 5PREFACE
  6. 6BEE HUNTING
  7. 7CHAPTER I. AN OLD BEE HUNTER.
  8. 8CHAPTER II. EARLY SPRING HUNTING.
  9. 9CHAPTER III. BEES WATERING. HOW TO FIND THEM.
  10. 10CHAPTER IV. HUNTING BEES FROM SUMAC.
  11. 11CHAPTER V. HUNTING BEES FROM BUCKWHEAT.
  12. 12CHAPTER VI. FALL HUNTING.
  13. 13CHAPTER VII. THE LATEST IMPROVED METHOD OF BURNING.
  14. 14CHAPTER VIII. SOME FACTS ABOUT LINE OF FLIGHT.
  15. 15CHAPTER IX. BAITS AND SCENTS.
  16. 16CHAPTER X. CUTTING THE TREE AND TRANSFERRING.
  17. 17CHAPTER XI. CUSTOMS AND OWNERSHIP OF WILD BEES.
  18. 18CHAPTER XII. SOME OF OUR BENEFACTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS.

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