. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. 190 HANDLING BEES. only natural sweet; and the promise of "a land flowing with milk and honey" had once a significance which it is difficult for us fully to realize. The honey-bee, therefore, was created not merely to store up its delicious nectar for its own use, but with certain propensities, without which man could. Fig. 89. OPENING THE T-TIVE AND EXAMINING THE COMBS. Apiary of IVir. , Aibertville, Savoie. no more subject it to his control, than he could make a useful beast of burden of a lion or a tiger. 379. One of the p
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. 190 HANDLING BEES. only natural sweet; and the promise of "a land flowing with milk and honey" had once a significance which it is difficult for us fully to realize. The honey-bee, therefore, was created not merely to store up its delicious nectar for its own use, but with certain propensities, without which man could. Fig. 89. OPENING THE T-TIVE AND EXAMINING THE COMBS. Apiary of IVir. , Aibertville, Savoie. no more subject it to his control, than he could make a useful beast of burden of a lion or a tiger. 379. One of the peculiarities which constitutes the foun- dation of the present system of management, and indeed of the possibility of domesticating at all so irascible an insect, has never to our knowledge been clearly stated as a great and controlling principle by any one before Mr. Langstroth. It may be thus expressed :. 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , Dadant & sons
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