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Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)

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Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)

Lizzie E. Cotton Mrs.

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Eleven years on, she revised the system and doubled down on the controllable hive. This 1891 edition of Mrs. Lizzie Cotton's method sharpens her chapters on breeding, controlled swarming, hives, and feeding, with the feed receipt refined by experience. A seasoned beekeeper's updated playbook for the profit-minded. Compare the mature version of a system that paid its own way.

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48 chapters

  1. 1BEE KEEPING FOR PROFIT.
  2. 2Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton,
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4PREFACE.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. HONEY BEES.
  6. 6BREEDING.
  7. 7CHAPTER II. THE CONTROLLABLE HIVE AND NEW SYSTEM OF BEE MANAGEMENT.
  8. 8SWARMING CONTROLLED.
  9. 9CHAPTER III. PATENT AND NON-PATENT HIVES, BEE JOURNALS, ETC.
  10. 10CHAPTER IV. FEEDING.
  11. 11RECEIPT FOR FEED.
  12. 12FEEDING FOR EARLY SWARMS.
  13. 13FEEDING FOR SURPLUS HONEY.
  14. 14FEEDING FOR WINTER.
  15. 15CHAPTER V. BOXES FOR SURPLUS HONEY.
  16. 16CARE OF HONEY IN BOXES IN WARM WEATHER.
  17. 17CHAPTER VI. SWARMING AND HIVING.
  18. 18CHAPTER VII. ANGER OF BEES.

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