Heather Honey, Copinger
£13.95
Heather Honey
£13.95
Ian Copinger has collected together a very important and readable series of articles by many of the leading Heather men of the past and in the case of Peter Schollick, a giant of the present.
Heather Honey is the Queen of all honeys. To gain a good crop it is important to manage your stocks during the mid season in order that they are at their strongest in August.
This Anthology brings together writings from all the past Great Heather Bee Masters – Francis Sitwell, Brother Adam, Colin Weightman & William Hamilton together with a contribution from one of the most successful current competitors – Peter Schollick.
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- HEATHER HONEY by Francis Sitwell
This paper was first published in the British Bee Journal in April 1912.- Foreword
- Heather Honey
- SOME POINTS ON HEATHER HONEY by Brother Adam
Extracts from the meeting of the Newcastle and District Beekeepers’ Association, held at the Hancock museum in Newcastle on December 8th, 1934. Almost three hundred beekeepers gathered to hear a lecture by the Rev. Bro. Adam of Buckfast on the subject of heather honey. The comments Bro. Adam made at this lecture are arguable as valid now as they were then.- Introduction
- Strain
- Sections
- Building up stocks for the moor
- Annual re-queening
- Heather hives
- Drifting
- Shelter
- Dartmoor
- Ericaceae
- Subsoil
- Swaling
- Altitude
- Climatic conditions
- Duration of honey-flows
- Feeding
- Extracting
- Filing machine
- Heather honey
- HEATHER HONEY by Colin Weightman
- Introduction
- Hives
- Colony illustration
- Best bees
- Problems on the moors
- Removal of the crop
- Exhibiting honey
- Marketing honey
- Shrimp brood
- Control ofVarroa destructor
- Labelling of honey
- THE ART OF BEEKEEPING by William Hamilton
The Art of Beekeeping by William Hamilton was printed and published in compact war-time standard style in February 1945 by The Herald Printing Works, Coney Street, York.- Heather honey production
- Description of the heather
- Difficulties of producing heather honey
- Methods of preparing colonies
- Stages of production diagram
- The hive
- Transporting the bees
- The site
- Management at the moors
- General notes
- Points to remember
- HEATHER HONEY by Peter Schollick
This section concentrates on the heather moors and the many aspects of moorland beekeeping and considerations which have to be made in getting the bees to the heather.- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- The seasons
- Working for a surplus of heather honey
- What are the considerations for a good heather stance?
- When is the right time to move to the heather moors?
- Which types of hives for the moor?
- Preparing to move the bees to the heather moors
- Transportation
- The early period of the heather stance visit
- On the moor - foraging for the heather honey
- Foraging over for the season
- Enjoy the heather moors
- A moors bonus
- Benefits of the bees working for heather honey
- Variations experienced when working for heather honey
- Possible occurrences whilst the bees are on the moors
- Heather and its harvest - types of heather plant
- Methods for working the bees to obtain the heather honey
- Working for heather honey or heather blend
- Honeys obtained and methods of dealing with any crop
- Square sections and round sections
- Colonies that have been on the moors
- Overview from bee books and related publications
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