Honey. Pasturage. Overstocking. Honey the product of flowers, [342]. Honey dew. Aphides, [343]. Qualities of honey, [345]. Poisonous honey. Innoxious by boiling. Preserving honey, [346]. Modes of taking honey from the hive. Objections to glass vessels, [347]. Pasteboard boxes preferred. Honey should be handled carefully. Pattern comb to be used in the boxes. Honey safely removed, [348]. Should not be taken from the bees in large quantities during honey harvest. Pasturage, [349]. The Willow. Sugar Maple and other honey-yielding trees, [350]. Linden tree as an ornament. White clover, [351]. Recommended by Hon. Frederick Holbrook as a grass crop, [352]. Sweet-scented clover, [363]. Hybrid clover front Sweden, [354]. Buckwheat. Raspberry, [355]. Garden flowers. Overstocking, [356]. Little danger of it. Bee-keepers and Napoleon. No overstocking in this country. Letter from Mr. Wagner on the subject, [357]. Flight of bees for food, [361]. Advantages of a good hive in saving time and honey. Energies of bees limited. Bees injured by winds, [362]. Protector saves them from harm. Estimated profits of bee-culture. Advice to the careless, [363]. Value of Dzierzon's system. Adopted by the government of Norway. Want of National encouragement to agriculture, (note), [364].
Anger of Bees. Remedy for their Sting. Bee-Dress. Instincts of Bees. Gentleness of the bee, [365]. Feats of Wildman. Interesting incident, [366]. Discovery of a universal law. Its importance and results, [367]. Cross bees diseased. Never necessary to provoke a whole colony of bees, [368]. Danger from bees when provoked. A word to females, [369]. Kindness of bees to one another. Contrast with some children, [370]. Effects of a sting. The poison, [371]. Peculiar odors offensive to bees. Precautions against animals and human robbers, [372]. Sense of smell in the bee, [373]. By this they distinguish their hive companions. Robbers repelled by odors, [374]. Stocks united by them, [375]. Warning given by bees before stinging. How to act when assaulted by bees, [376]. Remedies for the sting, [377]. Bee-dress, [380]. Instincts of bees, [381]. Distinction between instinct in animals and reason in men. Remarkable instance of sagacity in bees, [383]. Facilities afforded by the Author's Improved Observing Hive. Indebtedness of the author to S. Wagner, Esq., [384].
ADVERTISEMENT
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 the perfect control over all the combs, effects a complete revolution in practical bee-keeping, the subscriber prefers to prove rather than assert. Practical Apiarians and all who wish to purchase rights and hives, are invited to visit his Apiary, where combs, honey and bees will be taken from the hives; colonies which may be brought to him for that purpose, transferred from any old hive; queens, and the whole process of rearing them constantly exhibited; new colonies formed, and all processes connected with the practical management of an Apiary fully illustrated and explained.
Those who have any considerable number of bees, will find it to their interest to have at least one movable comb-hive in their Apiary, from which they may, in a few minutes, supply any colony which has lost its queen, with the means of rearing another.
The hive and right will be furnished on the following terms. For an individual or farm right, five dollars. This will entitle the purchaser to use and construct for his own use on his own premises, as many hives as he chooses. The hives are manufactured by machinery, and can probably be delivered, freight included, at any Railroad Station in New England, or New York, cheaper than they could be made in small quantities on the spot. On receipt of a hive, the purchaser can decide for himself, whether he prefers to make them, or to order them of the Patentee. For one dollar, postage paid, the book will be sent free by mail. On receipt of ten dollars, a beautiful hive showing all the combs, (with glass on four sides,) will be sent with right, freight paid to any railroad station in New England or New York: a right and hive which will accommodate two colonies, with glass on each side, for twelve dollars; for seven dollars, a right and a well made hive that any one can construct who can handle the simplest tools. In all cases where the hives are sent out of New England or New York, as the freight will not be prepaid, a dollar will be deducted from the above prices. Address
L. L. LANGSTROTH.
Greenfield, Mass.