A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee; by Langstroth Lorenzo Lorraine

Author:Langstroth, Lorenzo Lorraine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bees
Publisher: New York, Saxton
Published: 1860-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

old-fashioned bee-keeper can, with movable combs, destroy his faithful laborers quite as speedily as by setting them over a sulphur-pit; thus preserving his honey from disgusting fumes, while he secures it on frames from which it may be conveniently cut, and preserves all empty comb for future use (p. 7l).

As many who would like to keep bees are so much afraid of being stung, that they object entirely even to natural swarming, how, it may be asked, can such persons open hives, lift out the combs, shake or brush off the bees, and practice other processes which seem like bearding a lion in its very den ? The truth is, that some persons are so timid, or suffer so dreadfully when stung, that they are every way disqualified from having anything to do with bees, and ought either to have none upon their premises, or to entrust the care of them to others. With the directions furnished in this treatise, almost any one, however, by using a bee-dress, can learn to superintend bees with very little risk. I find, in short, that the risk of being stung is really diminished by the use of my hives ; although it is very difficult for those who have not seen them in use, to believe that this can be so.

The ignorance of most bee-keepers of the almost unlimited control which may be peaceably acquired over bees, has ever been regarded by the author of this treatise as the greatest obstacle to the speedy introduction of movable-comb hives. He might easily have invented contrivances which, by adapting themselves to this ignorance, would, at first, have proved much more lucrative to him, had he thought it just, either to the community or to himself, to have taken such a course. Such ignorance has led to the invention of costly and complicated hives,*

* I have before me a small pamphlet, published In London in 1851, describing the construction of the "Bar and Frame Hive" of W. A. Mnnn, Esq. The object

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