Excerpt from New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics at Cornell UniversityThe prospective bee-keeper will be well advised to make haste slowly: Beginning with not more than a couple of stocks, he should increase the number as he acquires experience and becomes more capable of dealing with a larger apiary.See Lea¿et No. 334 (how to Increase Colonies of Bees) included in this volume.Appliances. - The appliances should be as simple as pos sible, and only those absolutely necessary should be purchased. These consist of a complete hive, containing supers (section racks, or shallow comb boxes), a queen excluder, quilts, ten frames with a division board in the brood chamber, comb foundation for the brood frames and also for the supers, a veil, and a smoker or carbolic cloth for subduing the bees. If the shallow combs are to be used for procuring surplus honey, a centrifugal honey extractor will also be needed, but this will not be required if comb honey is worked for exclusively. A scraper for cleaning ¿oor boards, frame tops, &c., , an uncap ping knife for use when extracting (a carving knife will serve this purpose), and a. Bee escape fitted into a board for clearing the bees out of the supers, will also be required.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.