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University of California and are reproduced with permission."
Warning: Some
material presented in these publications is dated so a beekeeper
must consult a more recent publication on the current conditions
with respect to mites, laws, bee disease treatments and newer foundation
materials!
Why read these books? If published today either of these books
might be named "Beekeeping in a Nutshell" or something along
those lines as they are short, compact and very complete for their
size. Hive construction, the life cycle of bees, common and uncommon
problems, queen rearing, packages, almonds, honey and a lot more is
what you will find in very few pages. If you are thinking of beekeeping
or just want to know more about the subject either of these books
is a good place to start as current books are much longer and cost.
If you have bees, and live in California, you will find items of interest
that are not mentioned in books written "back east". Get
both of them as even though one is listed as a 'revision', the treatment
and details do differ.
Fundamentals of California Beekeeping (Manual 42) was
published in 1971 and was available through the California Cooperative
Extension Service offices located through out the state of California
with a list price of $1.00. When it became dated it was revised and
republished as Beekeeping in California. in 1987. However,
considering that many aspects of beekeeping have not changed in over
a century, all current publications are written for places where it
is much colder than most of California in the winter, and books like
these are of historical interest to beekeepers permission was granted
for these electronic versions to be freely distributed through the
web. You are free to distribute this electronic form and/or printed
versions of this electronic form as long as you do not do so
for a profit and do not modify the contents.
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of Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) of the University of California.
While these beekeeping books are no longer available from them, they
do have many publications that might be of interest to anyone interested
in any kind of bees. You are invited to visit their web site at either
http://anrcs.ucdavis.edu/
or http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/
and review their current publication lists.
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