Haynes or Hooper?

[Ian123]

erm, no

I much prefer Roger Patterson’s

 

[madasafish]

Blimey 80% of beekeepers agreeing. What a wonderful world that would be!

Agreeing about what?

Probably 80% of all beekeepers would agree the other 20% are wrong.

On everything else, highly dubious.

For example : reading some posts here describing situations some bee hives are in, I cannot agree with myself what the cause of the problem is.

 

[Curly green finger's]

erm, no

Why not?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Why not?

because I don't really rate it, read it, found it sadly lacking - much like his first book

 

[Curly green finger's]

because I don't really rate it, read it, found it sadly lacking - much like his first book

It was one of the first books i had as a present, I grant you there are better ones like the Haynes manual which I would recommend and have done.
My favourite is Manleys honey farming which I'm trying to follow with colonys on the Heather that's a cracking book to read.

 

[Moobee]

because I don't really rate it, read it, found it sadly lacking - much like his first book

Agree - I was given one his manuals as my first bee book , which I found way too technical for a beginner. And he advocates the use of matchsticks……

 

[holmbee]

Thanks all. Think I'm going to go for Haynes now and de Bruyn as their Christmas present

I have lent the Haynes to a couple of people interested in keeking bees. One had not realised how much there is to keeping bees - not just buy a hive and then take off the honey. He decided against the other is now an enthusiast.

 

[Markthebuilder]

Just recived de bruyn. eBay £10. Only intended to skim a few pages but seams easy reading or rather I’m enjoying a lie in reading it.

 

[rolande]

My favourite is Manleys honey farming which I'm trying to follow with colonys on the Heather that's a cracking book to read.

If I was taking bees to the Heather I'd be mining ITLDs posts here and on twitter.... which really is no different to Manley recommending reading back issues of the journals (and keeping a note book to jot down sentient points and page numbers)


Edit: salient

 

[Curly green finger's]

If I was taking bees to the Heather I'd be mining ITLDs posts here and on twitter.... which really is no different to Manley recommending reading back issues of the journals (and keeping a note book to jot down sentient points and page numbers)

Will do thanks for the heads up

 

[Jules59]

Any comments regarding David Cramp's "A practical Manual of Beekeeping" ?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Any comments regarding David Cramp's "A practical Manual of Beekeeping" ?

least said the better. Nothing offensive but definitely mediocre

 

[sipa]

Clive De Bruyn - Practical beekeeping. More readable than Hooper, and pretty much the same content.

When I heard him speak, I thought how poor the lecture was.

A lot of "this is how I do it, but you should do it differently". Not my favourite.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

And a great fan of roaring gales going through the hive

 

[roche]

When I heard him speak, I thought how poor the lecture was.

A lot of "this is how I do it, but you should do it differently". Not my favourite.

Maybe he writes better than he speaks. Or spoke.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

of the two books I still prefer Hooper.