A complete guide for the management of bees throughout the year : containing 1. A Description of the new-invented Hives, and the Manner of using them, so as to take the Honey and Wax without destroying the Bees. 2. Description of the new-invented Bee-House, and its properest Situation. 3. The proper Method of Swarming and Hiving Bees. 4. Of separating the Honey from the Wax. 5. Of feeding Bees in the Winter. 6. Of the Enemies and Diseases to which Bees are subject, and their Remedies. 7. Of the Queen Bee, working Bee, and Drone. 8. Of the Generation of Bees. 9. Directions to make Mead. By Daniel Wildman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wildman, Daniel, active 1772-1812.

Series:

• Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bees.

Physical Description:

48 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Edition:

The second edition, with additions. Illustrated with copper-plates.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and Sold by him, at his Bee and Honey Warehouse, No 326, Holborn; Where any Quantity of his New-Invented Hives may be had on the shortest Notice, M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• Braces in title.
• Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Sixpence.
• Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T64918.

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