. Bee-keeping. Bee culture; Bees. (^^.^^ V.—HIVES AND HE inveterate use of the common straw hive, with its fire and sulphur application in autumn to its unhappy inmates, is deeply to be deplored. No humane man can look on the straw hive, rotting on a stand, wasted and worn by wind and rain, covered with a brown earthenware basin, under which vermin breed and multiply, and doomed to brimstone and bee-cide, without feeling it is a penal settlement, or cell of doom, for subjects unworthy of it. There is no- thing picturesque or pleasant about it, and the D 2. Please note that these im
. Bee-keeping. Bee culture; Bees. (^^.^^ V.—HIVES AND HE inveterate use of the common straw hive, with its fire and sulphur application in autumn to its unhappy inmates, is deeply to be deplored. No humane man can look on the straw hive, rotting on a stand, wasted and worn by wind and rain, covered with a brown earthenware basin, under which vermin breed and multiply, and doomed to brimstone and bee-cide, without feeling it is a penal settlement, or cell of doom, for subjects unworthy of it. There is no- thing picturesque or pleasant about it, and the D 2. 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 Cumming, John, 1807-1881. London : Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 14 Ludgate Hill
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