| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages). |
| Series |
Beekeeping anthology |
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Beekeeping anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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| Note |
Enlarged from the author's "Forty years among the bees," published in 1902. cf. Pref. |
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Original document: Book. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Summary |
This entertaining and informative memoir of a beekeeper of considerable experience is well worth the read. The author begins, not with bees, but with his own birth on June 10, 1831. One must read on a fair number of pages before bees become central to the story. It seems the author became interested in bees after the day when a swarm of bees "took in their line of march the house" where his wife was. Describing his wife as a woman of "remarkable energy and executive ability," he describes how "she undertook to stop that swarm." The result was that she managed to "get" the bees, "hiving them in a full-sized sugar-barrel." Apparently, this was accomplished by "taking them up in double handfuls" and throwing them where she wanted them to go. |
| Subject |
Bees.
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