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A Practical Manual of Beekeeping : How to Keep Bees and Develop Your Full Potential as an Apiarist, Paperback Book

A Practical Manual of Beekeeping : How to Keep Bees and Develop Your Full Potential as an Apiarist Paperback

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A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globetrotting career?

Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all.Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business.

It is recognised as a vital agricultural industry and can therefore also offer you a globe trotting career.

The whole subject is, however, often shrouded in mystery and loaded with jargon, leaving many people unaware of its true potential or how to start.

This book strips away all the mystery and explains step by step how - from day one - you can start beekeeping as a hobby; how you can progress to running a beekeeping business; or how you can start a career as a beekeeper which can quite easily take you all over the world.

No other guide explains in such detail the true potential and accessibility of beekeeping or of being a beekeeper. Contents: List of illustrations; List of photographs; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1.

Honey-bees and human beings; 2. Understanding the honey-bee colony; 3. Using the products of the hive and bees; 4. Obtaining equipment and bees; 5. Starting with bees; 6. The active season: spring; 7. The active season: summer and autumn 8. Dealing with problems; 9. Overwintering your bees: autumn to spring; 10. Controlling diseases and pests; 11. Rearing queens and breeding bees; 12. Exploring products and career possibilities; Weights and measures ready-reckoner; Further reading; International beekeeping organizations; Beekeeping charities; Beekeeping journals;Beekeeping supply companies; Index.

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