Biggle Bee Book: A Swarm of Facts on Practical Bee-keeping, Carefully HivedW. Atkinson Company, 1909 - 136 pages |
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Biggle Bee Book: A Swarm of Facts on Practical Bee-Keeping, Carefully Hived ... Jacob Biggle No preview available - 2017 |
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Alsike Amelanchier canadensis apiary Apple Pyrus Apr.-May Aster Aug.-Oct Aug.-Sept Bake beekeeper beeswax better Bidens bipinnata bloom blossom boiled bottom board brood nest buckwheat cage cake candy cellar CLOVER Trifolium cold comb-honey cough cream cupful butter cupful honey disease drones eggs empty hive entrance extracted honey extracting super extractor feed filled Gaylussacia give Gray's Manual hatch hive body honey flow honey produced Italian bees July-Aug June-July large number larvæ Lorenzo Langstroth May-June method old box hives old combs old hive one-half cupful outdoor wintering packing pint pollen pounds practise prevent profit propolis quart queen cells QUEEN REARING queenless colony red clover remedy season sheets of foundation smoke spring stir strong colony stung sugar sure surplus swarm sweet syrup tablespoonful Taraxacum teaspoonful teaspoonful soda ten-frame thing Tilia americana Trifolium hybridum warm weather wintered indoors worker
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Page 113 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Page 131 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 3 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom...
Page 109 - How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Page 101 - J-inch strips with something sharp. Bake an hour in a moderate oven. Be careful not to burn, but bake well. Dissolve sugar to glaze over top of cake. To keep the cake, stand on end in an oak tub, tin can, or stone crock — crock is best. Stand the cards up so the flat sides will not touch each other. Cover tight. Keep in a cool dry place. Don't use until three months old at least. The cake improves with age, and will keep good as long as you will let it. I find any cake sweetened with honey does...
Page 96 - Honey Fruit-Cake. — \ cup butter, f cup honey, YI cup apple jelly or boiled cider, '2 eggs well beaten, 1 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, 1 teacupful each of raisins and dried currants. Warm the butter, honey and apple jelly slightly, add the beaten eggs, then the soda dissolved in a little warm water; add spices and flour enough to make a stiff batter, then stir in the fruit and bake in a slow oven. Keep in a covered jar several weeks before using.
Page 99 - Put the milk, sugar and honey on the stove, to boil 15 minutes; skim off the scum, and take from the stove. Put in the nuts, spices and candied fruit. Stir in as much flour as can be done with a spoon. Set away to cool, then mix in the soda (don't make the dough too stiff). Cover up and let stand over night, then work in flour enough to make a stiff dough. Bake when you get ready. It is well to let it stand a few days, as it will not stick so badly. Roll out a little thicker than a common cookie;...
Page 107 - Put 1 tablespoonful liquid tar into a shallow tin dish and place it in boiling water until the tar is hot. To this add a pint of extracted honey and stir well for half an hour, adding to it a level teaspoonful pulverized borax. Keep well corked in a bottle. Dose, teaspoonful every one, two or three hours, according to severity of cough. Summer Honey Drink.
Page 97 - ... flour, 1 level teaspoonful soda or saleratus. If it is too thin, stir in a little more flour. If too thin it will fall. It does not want to be as thin as sugar-cake. I use very thick honey. Be sure to use the same cup for measure.
Page 100 - Ibs. butter, 6 eggs, £ oz. saleratus; ginger to your taste. Directions for mixing. — Have the flour in a pan or tray. Pack a cavity in the center. Beat the honey and yolks of eggs together well. Beat the butter and sugar to cream, and put into the cavity in the flour; then add the honey and yolks of the eggs. Mix well with the hand, adding a little at a time, during the mixing, the 1 oz.