Free Books to Download:


Beekeeping in the United States Revised October 1980 (pdf)

Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants Originally published 1976 (pdf

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Historic Beekeeping Books free to download:

(These eBooks were downloaded from The Digital Library)

A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee – L. Langstroth (1859)

A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee – L. Langstroth (1865)

A thousand answers to beekeeping questions – C. Miller (1917)

A thousand answers to beekeeping questions (3rd Ed.) – C. Miller (1919)

A year among the bees – C. Miller (1891)

Better Queens by Jay Smith 1949

Dadant system of beekeeping – C. Dadant (1920)

Dzierzon’s rational bee-keeping – Dzierzon (1882)

Fifty years among the bees – C. Miller (1911)

First lessons in beekeeping – C. Dadant (1918)

How to keep bees – A. Miller (1918)

Isaac Hopkins on Queen Rearing 1886

Langstroth on the hive & honey bee by L. L. Langstroth (1919)

Langstroth on the hive and the honey-bee, a bee-keeper’s manual – L. Langstroth (1853)

Modern queen-rearing – M. Pritchard (1916)

Mysteries of bee-keeping explained being a complete analysis of the whole subject – M. Quinby (1853)

Mysteries of beekeeping explained – M. Quinby (1918)

Quinby’s new bee-keeping. The mysteries of bee-keeping explained by M. Quinby (1919)

Scientific queen rearing by Gilbert Doolittle1846

The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. by A. I. Root (1910)

The ABC of bee culture – a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee – A. Root (1884)

The Alley Method of Queen Rearing 1883

The Dzierzon theory; being a full elucidation of scientific bee-keeping – A. Berlepsch (1877)

The hive and the honey-bee – H. Richardson (1849)

The Hopkins Method of Queen Rearing 1911

The importance of honey production by E. R. Root (1918)

The Miller Method of Queen Rearing 1911

The rearing of queen bees – E. Phillips (1905)

Wintering bees – E. Root (1913)



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