So work the Honey Bees.
Creatures that by a rule in Nature, teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.—Shakspeare.
The above are a very accurate representations of the Queen, the Worker and the Drone. The group of bees in the title page, represents the attitude in which the bees surround their Queen or Mother as she rests upon the comb.
LANGSTROTH ON THE HIVE AND THE HONEY-BEE,
A Bee Keeper's Manual,
BY
REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH.
NORTHAMPTON: HOPKINS, BRIDGMAN & COMPANY. 1853.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by L. L. Langstroth, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
C. A. MIRICK, PRINTER, GREENFIELD.