. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TTHE aMERICJtr* BEB JO-WRPfS'I^. 53 >>a*^f*-/^------^—^?' IlOffl'i »\\xiii:u i>. :\GS'rR'i'ii, XIIU IILmiOR OF 'A. But few of those who in the present day are using the movable-frame liive and prac- tieing the modern methods and management of progressive bee-culture,realize how many sore " trials and troubles " beset the " pio- neers" in developing the pursuit. That development was slow, and every " progres- sive step" was beset with many difficulties. The metliods and management of to-day an an ev
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. TTHE aMERICJtr* BEB JO-WRPfS'I^. 53 >>a*^f*-/^------^—^?' IlOffl'i »\\xiii:u i>. :\GS'rR'i'ii, XIIU IILmiOR OF 'A. But few of those who in the present day are using the movable-frame liive and prac- tieing the modern methods and management of progressive bee-culture,realize how many sore " trials and troubles " beset the " pio- neers" in developing the pursuit. That development was slow, and every " progres- sive step" was beset with many difficulties. The metliods and management of to-day an an evolution, and to the Rev. L. L. Lang- stroth and his co-worker, the lamented Moses Quinby, we owe an ovirwlielming debt of gratitude for their patient and un- he took great interest in natural the happiest days ot his youth were those spent in watching the habits of the various insects found in ami near the city of his birth. His parents were of the "old school," and deeming such studies the height of youthful folly, gave him no encouage- ment therein, and it was not until the year 1838, that he began to learn something of the honey-bee. At that time he procured a col- ony or two ot bees, and began studying them under great disadvantages, he at that time never having seen or heard of a work on bee-culture ; and for the first year of his pursuit in this direction, the only published work of that kind tliat came to his notice was written by a man who doubted the ex- istence of a queen-bee. After graduating at Yale College, he pur- sued the study of theology, and was settled over his first church at Andover, Mass. His health became in a short time so much im- paired, that he was obliged to give up his pastoral charge, and in , he removed to Greenfield, Mass., where for a few years he was engaged in Rev. L. L. Langstroth. tiring exertions in revealing to us the mys- teries of the home of the honey-bee. Hundreds— aye, thousands — to-day a
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