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Honey House and Equipment Layouts
This publication presents a set of principles on which to base arrangements for a honey house. Information is included on aspects of equipment and buildings that support these principles. The paper begins with details for the selection of a site for the honey house. Principlesfor equipment layout are then given, followed by principles and details for the building layout.

Honey House and Equipment Layouts (Government of Alberta, 1983)

News Posted on: Tuesday 22 December 2009 - 11:26:40
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Carniolan Queen Breeding Double Header
Here are two out of print articles that are a must read for Canadian queen breeders.  The first is an account of the great of the Saskatchewan Birch Hills Hastings Carniolan population:

Queen Breeder of the Saskatchewan North (Canadian Beekeeping 1968)

Next is an article outlining a practical application of the Page and Laidlaw closed breeding population model:

A Successful Application of the Page/Laidlaw Breeding Program (Cobey and Lawrence, Gleenings in Bee Culture 1988)


News Posted on: Friday 18 December 2009 - 19:05:09
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