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Soap recipes: seventy tried-and-true ways to make modern soap with herbs, beeswax and vegetable oils
Valley Hills Press, Starkville, USA (1995) 224 pages. Paperback. Available from Bees for Development
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.This new publication by the soap? award-winning author of the popular Super Formulas certainly thinks so! The book begins with the basic procedures involved with soap making, and fragrances and colours used. Then hundreds of recipes including such interesting concoctions as “the mean green washing machine’, “the bee’s knees” and ..
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“pollen pleasure”. Tips on soap selling as your own business, what can go wrong, and frequently asked questions are backed up by an index, appendices, bibliography and conversion tables.
Bees and beekeeping in the former Dutch East Indies: with some references to Brunei, Serawak and Peninsular Malaysia Remy de Vries
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This book will come as a delight for those interested in the traditions of Asian beekeeping. Remy de Vries has surveyed the vast literature written in the Dutch language during 150 years of exploration of south-east Asia. The anecdotes reveal the great significance of bees and beekeeping in both the religion and daily life of people in this region.
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Numerous authors from 1903 onwards expressed their ambition to keep Apis dorsata inside hives. (This idea was still being tried, fruitlessly, by people in the 1980s).
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Despite a range of useful species of both Asian honeybees and stingless bees, colonialists always tried hard to introduce western honeybees.
Weare told of an early beeswax barter Pigafetta (1521) during his visit to the Moluccas obtained fifteen pounds of wax
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And finally Riedel (1886) informs us: for the head hunters of Wetar (north-east of Timor) there were two reasons to cut off a stranger's head when met in the forest: firstly, the stranger might be a honey robber. and secondly, his dead body would attract bees to settle in the forest.
Pollination of cultivated plants
in the tropics
David W Roubik with eleven additional contributors
edited by
FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin 118, Rome, Italy (1995) 196 pages Paperback. Available from
Bees for Development price 18.50. Here we have something new and excellent: a guide to pollination resources in the tropics. The book is compendium of information concerning all the different aspects of the a
pollination of tropical crops: pollinators, pollination methods, ecological considerations, how to study pollination, using pollinators in tropical agriculture, anc much more.
One of the three appendices is a useful list of 1330 economically important plants species: their use, origin and pollination information. Indices by scientific and common names are provided, and in a user-friendly way. This A4 size book is packed full of information, all of which is accompanied by interesting and stimulating black and white illustrations.
Better beginnings for beekeepers by
Adrian Waring
BIBBA, Ripley, United Kingdom (1995) 68 pages. Paperback. Available from
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The best way to learn the craft of beekeeping is from a beekeeper with years of experience. Such a beekeeper will tell you what you need to know, not what you ought to know. A Bees fer Development publication
