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    Bee Keeping in Porto Rico
    Bee Keeping in Porto Rico
    Bee Keeping in Porto Rico
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    Bee Keeping in Porto Rico

    By W. V. Tower

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    First published in 1911, this book contains a comprehensive and practical guide to keeping bees. With information on every aspect from feeding and swarming to extracting honey for profit, "Bee Keeping in Porto Rico" constitutes a useful and timeless resource for modern enthusiasts. Contents include: "Location of Apiary", "Apparatus", "Hive Stands", "Hives", "Honey Boards and Queen Excluders", "Bee Escapes", "Drone Boards", "Veils and Gloves", "Manipulation and Behavior of Bees", "Variety of Cells", "Preparing Hives for the Honey Clop", "Swarming", "Hiving of Swarms", "Clipping of Queens", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on bee-keeping.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHome Farm Books
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9781473342422
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      Bee Keeping in Porto Rico - W. V. Tower

      RICO.

      INTRODUCTION.

      At the present time the honey industry of Porto Rico is in its infancy. There are a few apiaries on the island, located in the mountainous district of Ponce and in Mayaguez; a few others are scattered over the island, but there is no area which could be considered over-stocked. There are extensive acreages where Italian bees cannot be found. Native hives have been used, but now some of the bee-keepers are transferring their stock to the standard hive and are raising Italian bees.

      The northern, western, eastern, and interior portions of the island are exceptionally well adapted to the bee industry, while the south side is not considered so good on account of the scarcity of rain during all seasons of the year. The bees at the experiment station have never had to be fed during the winter months of the year. This year two hives of Italian bees have been weighed morning and evening, one from December 13th until February 13th, showing an increase in weight of fifty-five pounds, while the second showed an increase of forty-nine pounds, from December 22nd to February 12th. This was during the driest months of the

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