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The Bee Keeper's Guide, Fourth Edition

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The Bee Keeper's Guide, Fourth Edition

J. H. Payne

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Payne's compact guide had run to four editions because beekeepers trusted it. In eight brisk chapters it teaches the essentials of managing hives through the season: the bees, their care, and the honey harvest. A well-worn British handbook for the cottager keeping a few stocks at the garden's edge. Practical beekeeping, distilled to what works.

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35 chapters

  1. 1THE BEE KEEPER'S GUIDE,
  2. 2PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5THE APIARIAN'S GUIDE.
  6. 6CHAPTER I.
  7. 7CHAPTER II.
  8. 8CHAPTER III.
  9. 9CHAPTER IV.
  10. 10CHAPTER V.
  11. 11CHAPTER VI.
  12. 12CHAPTER VII.
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII.
  14. 14CHAPTER IX.
  15. 15CHAPTER X.
  16. 16CHAPTER XI.
  17. 17CHAPTER XII.
  18. 18CHAPTER XIII.

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