. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. 8 Beekeeping The primitive method of keeping bees consisted simply of giving them some kind of cavity in which to live. Such hives are exemphfied in the mud hives of the Palestine beekeeper (Fig. 3), and the straw skeps of the old-time European beekeeper. The interesting collection of hives shown in Fig. 4 is drawn from a photograph sent the author by J. de Dieterichs, Nucha, Caucasus, Russia, these hives being types used in that country. To our discredit, it must /i ''J i *. Fig. 8. — Be
. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. 8 Beekeeping The primitive method of keeping bees consisted simply of giving them some kind of cavity in which to live. Such hives are exemphfied in the mud hives of the Palestine beekeeper (Fig. 3), and the straw skeps of the old-time European beekeeper. The interesting collection of hives shown in Fig. 4 is drawn from a photograph sent the author by J. de Dieterichs, Nucha, Caucasus, Russia, these hives being types used in that country. To our discredit, it must /i ''J i *. Fig. 8. — Bee-house in Carniola, Austria. be admitted that in parts of America the box-hive (Fig. 1) or "gum" has not been eliminated. With such crude equipment, beekeeping as a business is not possible. With the invention of the movable-frame hive by Langs- troth, around which so much of this book centers, the de- velopment of practical beekeeping began. This type of hive was promptly adopted by German beekeepers, since the previous rediscovery of the bar-hive by the great bee- keeper Dzierzon had prepared them for it. The bar-hive had, however, been used centuries before in Greece (Fig. 5).. 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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