. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use. Bees. omits to state the individual height of his stories, and therefore we are left to our own conjectures as to its gross elevation. Ducouedic may he said to stand at the head of the stori- fiers of France, although he h
. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use. Bees. omits to state the individual height of his stories, and therefore we are left to our own conjectures as to its gross elevation. Ducouedic may he said to stand at the head of the stori- fiers of France, although he has met with some severe strictures from Messrs. Bosc, Feburier, Lenormand and others. We will first give a description of the hive of Mr. Ducouedic, it having been panegyrized as the most com- plete yet invented on the storifying system, and then enter into an impartial exposition of the system itself. The annexed plate is the common straw hive, placed on a platform in which a first swarm is placed, and in this state it remains during the whole of the winter of the same year. This alone has been urged as a decided objection to this hive, on account of the delay that attends it in the reaping of any immediate advantage, which is the chief recommenda- tion of the storifying system. Early in the following year, the first story is added to it, and it is then called La Ruche Ecossaise or Scotch hive. The hive then remains in the state of a single story for an entire year, and if the popula- tion of it be considerable, and the season favourable during its first year, it may be ex- pected to produce two or three strong swarms. On the return of the following season, the hive will be twenty-one months old, nine months as a simple hive, and twelve as one story. The hive with two stories is represented in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not
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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectbees, bookyear1842
