modern bee keeping and honey processing technology (hand book)

MODERN BEE KEEPING AND HONEY PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY


HONEY

Adulteration of Honey
Fiehe's Test
Other Test to be Applied to Honey Specific Rotation
Sucrose
Reducing Sugars
Microscopic
Honey
Chemicals for Flavour Matching
Uses and Notes

INTRODUCTORY


LIFE OF THE HONEY BEE

Caste System
Body Structure
Life History
Jobs of Worker Bees
Doings of a Drone
The Remarkable Queen Bee
Swarming
Communication Among Bees

SPECIES OF BEE KEEPING

Species of Honey Bee
Indian Bee
Rock Bee
Little Bee
Itallan Bee
Colony Organization
Queen
Worker
Drone
Development of Honey Bee
How to Differntiate  Castes?
What is a Colony Nest?
How do Bees Communicate with each other?
What are the useful Products  Produce by  Bee
Bee wax
Bee venom
Royal Jelly
Pollen
Propolis

BEE PASTURAGE


SITE SEECTION AND ARRANGEMENT OF APIARY

Criteria for Selection of Beehive
What is an Apiary?
Location of an Apiary
Bee Equipment
Arrangement of beehives

BEEHIVE

Different Sources of Honey Bees
Purchase f Honey Bee Colony
Precautions
Procedure
Sub Unit 4b:Multiplication of Colonies Materials Required
Procedure

FOOD GATHERING BY BEES

Requirements of a Colony
Foraging by the Bees
Factors Influencing Field Activity
Bee Flora

BEE KEEPING

Tools and Equipment
Placement of Colonies
From where the get Bee Colonies?
Settling Down a New Colony
Combining Two colonies
Dividing and Multiplying Colonies
Bee Poisioning

MANAGEMENT OF BEE COLONIES

Relevant Information
What is Seasonal Management?
Management of Bees During Different Seasons
What is Dearth Period?
How does the Dearth  Period affect Bees?
How can be Dearth
Period be Detected?
What is Swarming?
How Swarming can be prevented

PEST MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES

Pests of Bees
Bacterial Diseases
Viral Diseases
Predators
Effect of Pesticide Poisoning

EXTRACTION OF HONEY & PROCESSING

How to Store Extracted Honey?
Marketing of Honey
Precautions
Extraction of Honey
Materials required
Procedure
Processing of Extracted Honey
Materials required
Procedure

HONEY EXTRACTION

QUALITY OF HONEY

EQUIPMENTS

Introduction
Hiving Equipment
Hive
Open hives
Traditional hives
Pottery hive
Basket hive
Horizontal hive
Wall hive
Top bar hives
Langstrath hive
Principle of bee space
Principle of population
Construction of Longstroth Hive
Stand
Bottom board
Brood chamber
Standard frame
Self spacing frame
Staple spacing frame
Super
Inner cover
Top cover
Sloping  top cover
Flat top cover
Swarm Catching Equipments
Swarm catcher
Queen cage
Other Equipments
Queen introduction cage
Queen excluder
Smoker
Hive tool
Bee veil
Overall
Gloves
Bee brush
Feeding Equipments
Top feeder
Division board leeder
Syrup filled combs
Additional Hive Equipments
Dummy or Division Board
Bee escape
Porter bee escape or spring bee escape
Wire gauze cone escape
Comb Foundation
Selection
Fixing
Honey Extracting Equipments
Tangential type
Parallel radial  type


ECONOMICS OF BEE-KEEPING

HONEY BASED FORMULATIONS

Honey Cakes
Honey Flavour
Honey Flavour Essence
Honey Fruit filling (Cream Type)
Honey Glaze
Doughnut Honey Glaze
High Ratio Honey
Macaroon Cake
Honey Macaroom Lcing
Honey Nut Topping

FLAVOUR FORMULATIONS BASED ON HONEY

Honey, Lmitation No. 1
Honey, Lmitation No. 2
Honey, mitation No.   3
Honey, Lmitation No. 4
Honey, Lmitation No. 5
Honey, Lmitation No. 6
Honey, Lmitation No. 7
Honey, Synthetic No. 8
Honey, Synthetic No. 9 (For Perfumes)
Honey, Synthetic No. 10 (For Perfumes)
Honey, Synthetic No. 11
Honey, Synthetic No. 12

HONEY A MIRACULOUS FOOD

Honey butter
Honey Mango Squash
Honey Jam
Honey Candy
Honey and Egg
Honey Ice Cream
Honey Chocolate
Honey Chikki
Honey Jelly
Carrot salad with honey
Honey lamon squash
Uses of by products of Bees
Bee Pollen
Propolis
Royal Jelly or Bee Milk
Bee Wax
Bee Venom

HARD HONEY CIDER

What is hard cider?
Where did hard cider originate?
Honey's advantages in hard cider
Making hard honey cider
Milling and Pressing
Fermentation

HARD CIDER FORMULAE

Bit 'O' Honey Cyser
Ingredients for five gallons
Procedure
Ingredients for five gallons
Procedure
Ginger Honey Cider
Ingredient for five gallons
Procedure
Strokes Sensational  Elderberry Cider
Procedure
Herb's Happy Honey Cider
Ingredients for five gallons
Procedure


PLANT ECONOMICS HONEY PROCESSING & PACKING

Land and Building
Plant and Machinery
Fixed Capital
Raw Materials
Total Working Capital/Annum
Total Capital Investment
Turn Over/Annum


PLANT ECONOMICS OF BEE KEEPING


Land and Building
Plant and Machinery
Fixed Capital
Raw Materials
Total Working Capital/Annum
Total Capital Investment
Turn Over/Annum


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