American Bee Journal, Volume 1Dadant & Sons, 1861 Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations. |
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abdomen AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL apiarian apiary appearance artificial colonies ascertained Baron of Berlepsch become bee culture beekeepers Bienenzeitung blossom bottom board brood brood comb cluster color combs containing common bees common drones common hives developed dollars Dönhoff drone-brood drone-comb drone-eggs Dzierzon early emerged excursions experience fact favorable fecundated feeding female fertile queen fertile workers filled flowers furnish GARDEN hatched Honey Bee Huber Illinois ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD impregnated inches insect instinct issue Italian bees Italian drones Italian queen jelly Kirtland L. L. LANGSTROTH labor laid Langstroth hive large number larva larvæ lay eggs male movable comb hives never observed oviduct parent hive pasturage placed pollen population portion pounds produced Prof propolis queen bee queenless regard remain removed result royal cells says sealed season second swarm semen spermatheca spermatozoa spring sting supply surplus honey theory tion weather wings winter young queen
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Page 173 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 143 - He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine.
Page 136 - There are three things in court which must be communicated to the king before they are made known to any other person: — 1st. Every sentence of the Judge. 2nd. Every new song. 3rd. Every cask of Mead.
Page 143 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird; and very injurious to men that kept bees; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Page 149 - A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.
Page 98 - Manual ; being a Practical Treatise on the History and Domestic Economy of the Honey Bee, embracing a full illustration of the whole Subject, with the most approved Methods of Managing this Insect through every Branch of its Culture, the Result of many Years
Page 143 - We had in this village more than twenty years ago an idiot boy, whom I well remember, who, from a child, showed a strong propensity to bees ; they were his food, his amusement, his sole object.
Page 173 - Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts : Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds...
Page 133 - In France they put their hives in a boat, some hundreds together, which floats down the stream by night, and stops by day. The bees go out in the morning, return in the evening ; and when they are all back and quiet, on the boat floats. I have heard they come home to the ringing of a bell, but I believe they would come home just the same, whether the bell rings or no.
Page 171 - Her family flourishes and improves by her good management. She loves her husband, and is beloved by him. She brings him a race of beautiful and virtuous children. She distinguishes herself among her sex. She is surrounded with graces. She never sits among the loose tribe of women, nor passes away her time with them in wanton discourses. She is full of virtue and prudence, and is the best wife that Jupiter can bestow on man.