Practical tips and recommendations are given to the beekeeper on how to get the largest amount of honey, wax, biologically active beekeeping products and new bee colonies from bees at the lowest cost of labor and funds. The second edition (1st in 1971) is supplemented with new data on the life of bees, breeding work, the organization of wintering bees and on hives. For beekeepers of collective farm, state farm and household apiaries.