The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ManagementW. Blackwood and Sons, 1870 - 193 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 21
Side 11
... favourable , seldom failed in my object . This , however , only shows that if extraordinary facilities be afforded , the laying of drone eggs may be pro- moted and increased , not that the sex of eggs is changed . Yours ever , J. W. ...
... favourable , seldom failed in my object . This , however , only shows that if extraordinary facilities be afforded , the laying of drone eggs may be pro- moted and increased , not that the sex of eggs is changed . Yours ever , J. W. ...
Side 26
... favourable , they do not all leave their hives at the same time . As the reader is already aware that copulation takes place outdoors — it may be at some distance from the hive - he will see at once why so many drones are usually ...
... favourable , they do not all leave their hives at the same time . As the reader is already aware that copulation takes place outdoors — it may be at some distance from the hive - he will see at once why so many drones are usually ...
Side 28
... favourable for gathering honey . On the appearance or prospect of hard times the bees destroy these comparatively useless creatures and cast them out of their hives . ever white drones are seen being cast out , the owner may be pretty ...
... favourable for gathering honey . On the appearance or prospect of hard times the bees destroy these comparatively useless creatures and cast them out of their hives . ever white drones are seen being cast out , the owner may be pretty ...
Side 31
... favourable weather . Once but only once have we known 20 lb. weight gained by one hive in two days . - - THE INGENUITY OF BEES . This subject also defies description . To mention half the instances of ingenuity seen in a large apiary ...
... favourable weather . Once but only once have we known 20 lb. weight gained by one hive in two days . - - THE INGENUITY OF BEES . This subject also defies description . To mention half the instances of ingenuity seen in a large apiary ...
Side 42
... favourable , and a second time preparations be made for swarming . As the time draws near , the bees send out scouts to find a place for the swarm to go to . Like a queen - wasp in spring , seeking a place to build her nest , these ...
... favourable , and a second time preparations be made for swarming . As the time draws near , the bees send out scouts to find a place for the swarm to go to . Like a queen - wasp in spring , seeking a place to build her nest , these ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable ... A. Pettigrew Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON amongst apiary artificial swarming Atlas Author autumn bee-hives bee-keepers better Carluke CHAPTER cold colour commence covered cross-sticks crown 8vo DAVID PAGE doors drone-cells drone-comb drones Edinburgh eggs ekes empty hive Engravings enlarged favourable Fcap feeding female filled flight-board flowers foul brood full of combs fustian garden Geology GEORGE ELIOT hatch HISTORY hive placed honey honeycomb Illustrations inches JOHN HILL BURTON keep labour large hives leave their hives male Maps months mother hive nadir never non-swarming old hive POEMS post 8vo Professor profitable queen bee reader ready to swarm removed royal cells Scotland season Second Edition second swarms seen SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON sometimes soon speedily stock-hives strong hives sugar supers swarming system syrup tion University of Edinburgh vols weather weight white clover winter workers young queens
Populære avsnitt
Side 11 - STEPHENS. The Book of the Farm ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, FieldWorker, and Cattleman.
Side 1 - M'Crie, DD Uniform Edition. Four vols. crown 8vo, 24s. Life of John Knox. Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland. Crown 8vo, 6s. Another Edition, 3s. 6d. Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Side 9 - The Geology of Pennsylvania. A Government survey, with a general view of the Geology of the United States, Essays on the Coal Formation and its Fossils, and a description of the Coal Fields of North America and Great Britain.
Side 2 - PEOPLE'S EDITION, 31s. 6d. Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession. Third Edition, 2 vols. 8vo. Portraits and Maps, 30s. Essays : Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous. 3 vols. demy 8vo, 45s.
Side 14 - TULLOCH. Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century. By JOHN TULLOCH, DD, Principal of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews ; and one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland. Second Edition. 2 vols.
Side 5 - Reference to the Instructions recently issued by the Science and Art Department. 3oth Thousand, revised. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. Facts and Dates ; or, the Leading Events in Sacred and Profane History, and the Principal Facts in the various Physical Sciences. The Memory being aided throughout by a Simple and Natural Method. For Schools and Private Reference.
Side 6 - HOME PRAYERS. By Ministers of the Church of Scotland and Members of the Church Service Society. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. HOMER. The Odyssey. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza.
Side 11 - We have thoroughly examined these volumes ; but to give a full notice of their varied and valuable contents would occupy a larger space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion ; we therefore, in general terms, commend them to the careful study of every young man who wishes to become a good practical farmer.— Times.