. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming ... Bees; Bees. Ig SUCCESSFUL BEE-KE'EPl:S'Gf,-. ant ; a new egg is soon laid, and at once the watchful workers keep vigil there. Four to five days elapse, and ^3"y?/<i the tiny egg breaks into a shapeless â ""'It^jl massâsave that something like an ''"''liji embryo worm is revealed by the E^ microscope ,' when worker after worker is seen peeping into the cell, nursing and providing for the needs of its occupant. Sca
. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming ... Bees; Bees. Ig SUCCESSFUL BEE-KE'EPl:S'Gf,-. ant ; a new egg is soon laid, and at once the watchful workers keep vigil there. Four to five days elapse, and ^3"y?/<i the tiny egg breaks into a shapeless â ""'It^jl massâsave that something like an ''"''liji embryo worm is revealed by the E^ microscope ,' when worker after worker is seen peeping into the cell, nursing and providing for the needs of its occupant. Scarce a moment can pass, but some new comer depo&its its apportioned food. Night and day this work of watchfulness and care continues without interruption, while generation after generation come and go frorci year to year. No confu- sion, not the slightest discord, even for a moment, but each, intent on its appropriate task, right gleefully plies its willing hands and feet, and all to one continual work, 2vork, WORK ! And amidst all this multiform labor, order reigns. If any cells are found of too great depth, in con- sequence of having been used for the storing of honey for the previous winter, they are at once cut down to the required length on the approach of the broods to their vicinity. Mathematical precision is apparent in all the household ! From whence ? What silent, magic influ- ence pervades the honied dome, and guides its myriad throng ? We will open the hive and take away the queen. Here she is ! Now it is closed again, and while I hold her in my hand here, let us keep a close watch upon the movements in the interior of the hive, through its glass sides. Where but a moment since all was order and work, what have we now ? See ! The bees are run- ning here and there. The tumult increases 1 Fifteen min- utes have scarcely elapsed, and tumultuous disorder has brok(?n out through all the camp. All appears alarm and. Please note that these images are extracted from sc
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