THE
BEE KEEPER'S GUIDE,
CONTAINING
CONCISE PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS
FOR
THE MANAGEMENT OF BEES,
UPON THE
DEPRIVING SYSTEM.
BY J. H. PAYNE,
Author of "the Cottager's Guide."
FOURTH EDITION.
LONDON:
T. C. NEWBY, 65, MORTIMER St., CAVENDISH Sq.
1842.
| Fig. | Description |
| 1 | Improved Cottage Hive |
| 2 | Improved Cottage Hive with small hive affixed |
| 3 | Hive showing the opening on top |
| 4 | Small Hive with glass opening |
| 5 | Adapter for small Hive or Box |
| 6 | Knife for cutting out the comb |
| 7 | Box to be used instead of small Hive |
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PREFACE
TO THE FIRST EDITION.
Having written the "Cottager's Guide for the Management ofhis Bees, upon the Depriving System," which has been printedunder the direction of the Suffolk and Norfolk Apiarian Society,for gratuitous distribution amongst the Cottagers, I am induced, atthe particular request of several Apiarian friends, to enlarge theabove little work, and to give in addition a description of Nutt'snewly invented Hive, and other practical remarks in Bee-knowledge,resulting from nearly forty years close observation.
Should this little work be the means of inducing any person topromote the culture of Bees amongst the Cottagers in his immediateneighbourhood, upon the Depriving System, I shall be amply repaidfor the trouble it may have occasioned me; and the hope thatsuch will be the result, must be my apology for adding to the numberof books (perhaps already too numerous) upon this subject.
Reaumur in a letter to M. de la Bourdonaye, in 1757, says, "Thepreservation and also the increase of Bees is an object of such interestto Britanny, that the peasantry cannot be too much encouragedto turn their attention to it." Surely this is equally applicableto our own country at the presen