Posted: 12/9/2009 5:37:22 PM EDT
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You may already know that there are many old books that are available free as downloads. I searched the Internet Archive for "bees" and noted a LOT of books from the late 1800's- early 1900's about managing bees. You'll have to sift out some other volumes that might have nothing to do with keeping bees if it had "Bees" in the title, though. You can pretty much tell which ones are about beekeeping from the title.
The Internet Archive is a nice reference for seeing how things were done 100 years ago for a number of subjects. "Poultry" is another search item with a lot of info. There is plenty of FREE material here for a winter's reading on about any subject they dealt with in those days. |