How to cook soap yourself

Old recipes for making soap at home will help you overcome the “soapy fever” with which our industry can not cope. Homemade soft soap 3.4 kg potash, 4.5 kg of crushed animal fat or fat, 1 liter of water. A third of animal fat or lard mixed with potash and a little water and put […]

Using the honey

Collect a sufficient amount of honey and pollen can only strong, workable bee colonies. In many places, the basic replenishment of feed stocks of beekeepers is expected to be obtained from lime trees. In the Moscow suburbs, the lime tree in sufficient quantity gives off nectar in 3-5 years. It is important to know whether […]

Organization of a new bee family

The number of families can be increased if the apiary has free uterus or queen eggs and spare hives. Hive well and dry the hives. Then prepare a place for the family: mow the grass, install the hive stand. To the nest of a strong family, from which they decided to organize a new one, […]

Lime honey

Lime honey belongs to the best grades. Thanks to an exceptionally pleasant taste, it is highly appreciated. Freshly excreted on a honey extractor, this honey is very fragrant, usually transparent, slightly yellow or greenish in color; contains 36.05% glucose and 39.27% ​​levulose. Ufa (Bashkir) lime honey, the so-called lipstick, is colorless, crystallizes into a white, […]

Quadruple nucleus

For the preservation of fetal queens during the season, I made from two-millimeter boards a two-walled insulated four-place nucleus hive. Inside it is divided by plywood partitions into eight compartments. Each includes two frames without shoulders 100 mm wide, 135 high, 37.5 mm thick. From the sides I restrict them to nails, and in the […]

Folding door

1. General view of the folding door. In small premises (kitchen, bath, toilet, corridor) the door took quite a lot of space. One of the French firms has developed the design of the door, which, opening up, takes up to three times less space than usual. 2. Construction of the folding door: A – regular […]

Honey drink from bran with lemon juice

In boiling water, fill with sifted bran, cut into thin pieces of lemon zest, bring to a boil. Leave to stand for 1 hour, drain. Add sugar or honey and lemon juice. Serve warm. Water – 1.5 liters, wheat bran – 1 glass, lemon – 1-2 pcs., Caxar or honey – 2 tablespoons. The output […]

Halva with honey

Sifted flour put on a frying pan, add melted butter, mix thoroughly and stirring, stir fry until a homogeneous friable mass of yellow. Then pour a lot of honey and fry for 5 minutes. Hot halva to shift to a plate, trim and cut into pieces of a square shape. A portion of halva is […]

Forcing sugar feeding

Bees can live for a long time, eating pure sugar syrup, but they can not grow brood, allocate wax, intensively collect nectar and perform many other works, because sugar is a purely carbohydrate food and does not contain other substances vital for bees. Replenishment of fodder stocks. With a lack of honey in hives in […]

Watermelon juice with honey

This juice contains a lot of water, alkaline substances, has strong diuretic properties. It accelerates the removal of cholesterol from the body, is an indispensable food for patients on sclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, with a headache. In ancient Sanskrit there is evidence that the juice and pulp of watermelon are useful in cracks in the skin. […]