. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. Fig. Gravenhorst hive, a combination of skep and frame-hive. greater part of the fruit set is the result of the labors of the honeybee, and many fruit-growers are taking up beekeep- ing solely for its use- fulness in this re- gard. It is conserva- tively estimated that the honeybee is more valuable to American agriculture in its work of cross- pollinating than it is as a honey-producer. In all matters per- taining to the advancement of the beekeeping industry the beekeeper should therefore f
. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. Fig. Gravenhorst hive, a combination of skep and frame-hive. greater part of the fruit set is the result of the labors of the honeybee, and many fruit-growers are taking up beekeep- ing solely for its use- fulness in this re- gard. It is conserva- tively estimated that the honeybee is more valuable to American agriculture in its work of cross- pollinating than it is as a honey-producer. In all matters per- taining to the advancement of the beekeeping industry the beekeeper should therefore find a warm ally in the fruit-grower. Relation of apparatus to the development of beekeeping. It may perhaps be considered as characteristic of human endeavor that when a new piece of apparatus is invented it is first made as com- plex as possible and, if it becomes widely adopted and is used commercially, much of the later develop- ment is in the direction of simphfication. This is cer- tainly true of the appar- atus used by the beekeeper, and the stage of the de- velopment of the industry in any country may be approximately judged by the complexity of the apparatus Fig. 7. - German hive, opening at 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 perfectly resemble the original Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd.
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