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• The practical bee-master : or, a treatise, wherein the management of bees, both in common hives, and in the colony way, without killing them for their honey, is, step by step and on all probable occurrences, better and more particularly directed, than in any book hitherto published. By Robert Maxwell of Arkland, a Member of, and Secretary to, the Honourable, the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland
  by: Maxwell, Robert
  Published: (1747)
• 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)
• The antient bee-master's farewell : or, full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest Advantage; Disclosing Further Improvements Of The Hives, Boxes, And Other Instruments, To Facilitate The Operations; Especially that of Separating Double and Treble Hives or Boxes, with Certainty and Safety, without injuring the Bees; Interspersed With New But Important Observations: The Whole studiously adapted to General Use; With AN Appropriate Method For The Curious. Also Brief Remarks ON Schirach, And other distinguished Apiators on the Continent. Deduced From A Series Of Experiments During Thirty Years. Illustrated with plates. By John Keys, of Bee-Hall, near Pembroke
  by: Keys, John
  Published: (1796)
• A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland : and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c
  by: Bonner, James
  Published: (1795)
• The feminine monarchy : or the history of bees; shewing their admirable nature and property, their Generation and Colony, their Government, Loyalty, Art, Industry, Enemies, Wars, Magnanimity, &c. Together, with the right ordering of them from time to time, and the sweet Profit arising thereof. Written in Latin by Charles Butler, and now translated into English by W. S. To which is added some observations of silk worms, and how to manage and keep them to Advantage, never before made publick
  by: Butler, Charles
  Published: (1704)