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- catalog contributor b7330265.
- catalog created "1780]".
- catalog date "1780".
- catalog date "1780]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1780]".
- catalog description "(from t. p.) 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 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 handled without stinging -- V. Several methods of swarming bees artificially -- VI. To cause a swarm to work in separeted 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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 390 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Practical bee-master.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Practical bee-master.".
- catalog issued "1780".
- catalog issued "1780]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London, Printed for the author [etc.,".
- catalog relation "Practical bee-master.".
- catalog subject "Bee culture Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Beehives Early works to1800.".
- catalog subject "SF525 .K45".
- catalog tableOfContents "(from t. p.) 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 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 handled without stinging -- V. Several methods of swarming bees artificially -- VI. To cause a swarm to work in separeted 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.".
- catalog title "The practical bee-master: in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes ... with more ease, safety, and profit, than by any method hitherto made public ... interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's treatise on bees; with several new discoveries and improvements ... by John Keys ...".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".