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• 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 most proper 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
  by: Wildman, Daniel
  Published: (1799)
• 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 most proper 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
  by: Wildman, Daniel
  Published: (1785)
• A complete guide for the management of bees, throughout the year : Containing, I. A description of the queen bee. II. The generation of bees. III. Of the drones. IV. Of the proper situation for a bee-house. V. The proper method of swarming and hiving. VI. Of separating the honey and wax. VII. Of the enemies and sicknesses incident to bees. VIII. Of feeding them in the winter season. IX. Explanation of the new invented hives, with proper directions in what manner they are to be made use of
  by: Wildman, Daniel
  Published: (1774)
• 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
  by: Wildman, Daniel
  Published: (1779)
• The practical bee-master : in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, Without Destroying Them, And With More Ease, Safety, And Profit, Than BY Any Method Hitherto Made Public, Viz. I. To manage Bees in Straw Hives, with new constructed Tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with Boxes. II. In Boxes of an improved and cheap Construction, easily to be managed, and with so little Disturbance to the Bees, that all the necessary operations may be performed without any Danger. III. To catch and secure the Queen, or to fix her and a Swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause Bees to quit a Hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be mandled without Stinging. V. Several Methods of Swarming Bees Artificially. VI. To cause a Swarm to work in separated Glasses, without any Hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure Virgin Honey may be taken when in its utmost Perfection. Vii. To prevent or cause Bees to swarm. Viii. To take the Honey and yet preserve the Bees, with common Hives only. IX. To unite Casts, Swarms, and Stocks. X. A Catalogue of, and Observations on, the most proper Flowers or Pasturage for Bees. XI. An easy and certain Method of preserving Stocks in Winter and cold Springs. XII. Several new and improved Methods of extracting the Wax from the Combs, two of them without either Straining or Pressing; and each by a single Operation: but more perfectly, and with far less. Trouble and Expence of Fuel than hitherto practiced. Together With Such Full And Plain Directions That the meanest Cottager may attain this profitable Art Without Difficulty, and at a small Expence; interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: With Several New Discoveries And Improvements, The Result Of AtLong Experience, And Deduced From Actual Experiments, by John Keys, Bee - Master
  by: Keys, John
  Published: (1780)