. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. LVL—No. 2 HAMILTON, ILL, FEBRUARY, 1916 MONTHLY, $ A YEAR Beekeeping at Washington What Uncle Sam is Doing for the Beekeeper While the impression prevails that beekeeping is an old business, and al- though the bees have long been robbed of their honey, practical beekeeping is the newest among agricultural ac- tivities except fur-farming. Several of the men who assisted in establish- ing the new industry are still living and the others were well known to men still among us. In 1851 Langstroth invented the for the beekeepers that the Govern- me
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. LVL—No. 2 HAMILTON, ILL, FEBRUARY, 1916 MONTHLY, $ A YEAR Beekeeping at Washington What Uncle Sam is Doing for the Beekeeper While the impression prevails that beekeeping is an old business, and al- though the bees have long been robbed of their honey, practical beekeeping is the newest among agricultural ac- tivities except fur-farming. Several of the men who assisted in establish- ing the new industry are still living and the others were well known to men still among us. In 1851 Langstroth invented the for the beekeepers that the Govern- ment has established a laboratory for the purpose of investigating their pe- culiar problems. A representative of the American Bee Journal recently visited the Government laboratory at Drummond, Maryland, near Washing- ton, tor the purpose of learning some- thing of the work in hand, and of placing before our readers a state- ment of what has been done there and to be dealing with frivolous things when he experimented with a silk cord and a key attached to his kite, but our telephone, telegraph, electric light, electric railways and other mod- em conveniences are practical appli- cations of his discoveries. Ten years ago, little was known about bee-diseases. Beekeepers had learned that a colony could be rid of foulbrood by the shaking treat-. LABORATORY FROM THE STREET movable-frame hive which made bee- keeping commercially possible. This invention was later followed by the extractor and comb-foundation. At the most, beekeeping cannot be said to have been a commercial possibility for more tlian a half century. Under these circumstances, it is not sur- prising that we still have much to learn about bees and it is fortunate what results are likely to come from future activities. The results already accomplished are of far-reaching value. We often hear beekeepers remark that scientists are not practical. While in a sense this is true, every scientific discovery has a practical app
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