Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual. L. L. Langstroth

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       L. L. Langstroth

      Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664654793

Table of Contents

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       INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II. THE HONEY BEE CAPABLE OF BEING TAMED OR DOMESTICATED TO A MOST SURPRISING DEGREE.

       CHAPTER III. THE QUEEN OR MOTHER-BEE, THE DRONES, AND THE WORKERS; WITH VARIOUS HIGHLY IMPORTANT FACTS IN THEIR NATURAL HISTORY.

       On the way in which the eggs of the Queen Bee are fecundated.

       Effect of Retarded Impregnation on the Queen Bee.

       Fertile Workers.

       The Drones or Male Bees.

       The Production of so many Drones Necessary, in a State of Nature, to Prevent Degeneracy from "In and In Breeding."

       The Workers or Common Bees.

       Age of Bees.

       The process of rearing the Queen more particularly described.

       Royal Jelly.

       Artificial Rearing of Queens.

       CHAPTER IV. COMB.

       CHAPTER V. PROPOLIS, OR "BEE-GLUE."

       CHAPTER VI. POLLEN, OR BEE-BREAD.

       CHAPTER VII. ON THE ADVANTAGES WHICH OUGHT TO BE FOUND IN AN IMPROVED HIVE.

       CHAPTER VIII. PROTECTION AGAINST EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD, SUDDEN AND SEVERE CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE, AND DAMPNESS IN THE HIVES.

       Protector.

       CHAPTER IX. VENTILATION OF THE HIVE.

       CHAPTER X. NATURAL SWARMING, AND HIVING OF SWARMS.

       CHAPTER X. ARTIFICIAL SWARMING.

       CHAPTER XI. THE BEE-MOTH, AND OTHER ENEMIES OF BEES. DISEASES OF BEES.

       CHAPTER XII. LOSS OF THE QUEEN.

       CHAPTER XIII. UNION OF STOCKS. TRANSFERRING BEES FROM THE COMMON HIVE. STARTING AN APIARY.

       Transferring Bees from the Common Hive to the Movable Comb Hive.

       Procuring Bees to start an Apiary.

       CHAPTER XIV. ROBBING.

       CHAPTER XV. DIRECTIONS FOR FEEDING BEES.

       Feeding, to make a profit by selling the Honey stored up by the Bees.

       CHAPTER XVI. HONEY. PASTURAGE. OVERSTOCKING.

       Pasturage.

       Overstocking a District with Bees.

       CHAPTER XVII. THE ANGER OF BEES. REMEDY FOR THEIR STING. BEE-DRESS. INSTINCTS OF BEES.

       Remedies for the Sting of a Bee.

       Bee-Dress.

       Instincts of Bees.

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      L. L. LANGSTROTH'S MOVABLE COMB HIVE.

       Patented October 5, 1862.

      Each comb in this hive is attached to a separate, movable frame, and in less than five minutes they may all be taken out, without cutting or injuring them, or at all enraging the bees. Weak stocks may be quickly strengthened by helping them to honey and maturing brood from stronger ones; queenless colonies may be rescued from certain ruin by supplying them with the means of obtaining another queen; and the ravages of the moth effectually prevented, as at any time the hive may be readily examined and all the worms, &c., removed from the combs. New colonies may be formed in less time than is usually required to hive a natural swarm; or the hive may be used as a non-swarmer, or managed on the common swarming plan. The surplus honey may be taken from the interior of the hive on the frames or in upper boxes or glasses, in the most convenient, beautiful and saleable forms. Colonies may be safely transferred from any other hive to this, at any season of the year, from April to October, as the brood, combs, honey and all the contents of the hive are transferred with them, and securely fastened in the frames. That the combs can always be removed from this hive with ease and safety, and that the new system, by giving