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DEVELOPMENT 43
Sixty years with bees by Donald Sims B&D
USEFUL PUBLICATION
Bridge, United Kingdom (1997) 282 pages. Paperback. Available
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Years
Bees Dona1a
Hooper
Marston House. Yeovil. United Kinadam
Donald Sims is clearly an expert beekeeper. In this new book he passes on all those skills and stories from sixty years of beekeeping. He is also a very tidy and methodical beekeeper we can detect this from the pictures of his apiaries and - most revealing - his bee box full of tools. All the contents smoker, hammer, pencil, etc are ready for action.
Sixty
by Ted
Northern Bee Books, Hebd en
from
AWARD
Guide to bees and honey
Simms
The book is highly readable with colour pictures and good line drawings. Every aspect of smallscale, frame hive beekeeping as
practised in Europe is covered. There is a usefully comprehensive index. The best way to learn beekeeping is to accompany a skilled and competent beekeeper. This book provides the next best thing: companion in written form. It might well become a classic amongst beekeeping texts. a
A read-about, fold-out, and pop-up BEE David Hawcock and Lee Montgomery
by
USA (1994). Bees for
Random House Inc, New York,
Hardback. Available from Development price 5.00
The title says it all. A neat little book from the “Bouncing Bugs” series introducing bees. Features fold out to reveal the inside of a bee, or the inside of a hive. Finally the piece de la resistance: when the covers are folded back, up pops a whole, threedimensional bee! d
Wonderful for children of all ages
(1997 4th edition). 272 pages. Paperback.
This is the new edition of a beekeeping text that has proved enduringly popular and valuable. It provides a reliable, comprehensive introduction for those wishi begin beekeeping with European bees and equipment
materials needed for batik. It gives instructions and practical advice for a number of batik works, wall hangings and clothing. These will appeal to both beginners and more experienced workers.
The art of batik: flowers and landscapes
The new edition contains information about Varroa disease and treatment currently permitted in the United
Mary Taylor
Kingdom.
Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
There are many photographs and illustrations making this book excellent value for money.
Introduction to batik by Heather Griffin and Margaret Hone Search Press, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom (1995 reprint). 48 pages.
Paperback. Available from
Bees for Development price 7.00 Batik is an ancient craft, at least 2000 years old. It has evolved around the principle that wax and water do not mix, therefore an area of fabric covered with wax will not accept dye. Starting with white fabric, hot wax is applied to the areas to be kept white, and then the fabric is dyed for the first time. The fabric is then waxed in those areas that are to be kept in this first colour, and the process repeated with a second colour. Wax and dyeing is continued in this way until the picture is built up, and finally all the wax is removed §
This useful book describes the equipment and
TWELVE
BOOK
Bees for Development
price 12.00
by
Search Press,
(1995). 80 pages. Paperback.
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Bees for Development price 11.00 This book also gives excellent detailed instruction on how to do batik. Stepby-step guides show how to complete a flower picture. Mary Taylor also produces complex landscape pictures in batik and this book shows many excellent examples - and illustrates, picture by picture, how some of them were achieved. Very inspiring!
Natural pest and disease control by Henry Elwell and Anita Maas Natural Farming Network, Zimbabwe (1995) 128 pages. Paperback. Available from
Bees for Development price 12.00 A systematic compilation of natural ways to control plant pests and disease. Part gives four steps to re-establishing the Natural Order, to prevent pests and diseases. Part II gives natural ways to control pests and diseases. Part III gives remedies to protect field crops, and Part IV deals with protecting stored seed and grain. |
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