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Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

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Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth

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The movable frame put the whole hive at the beekeeper's fingertips, and this is the book that proved it. Lorenzo Langstroth explains taming the honeybee and mastering the queen, drones, and workers with his revolutionary design. The founding manual of modern beekeeping. Learn the method that every hive today still follows.

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42 chapters

  1. 1LANGSTROTH ON THE HIVE AND THE HONEY-BEE, A Bee Keeper's Manual,
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4ADVERTISEMENT
  5. 5INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. THE HONEY BEE CAPABLE OF BEING TAMED OR DOMESTICATED TO A MOST SURPRISING DEGREE.
  7. 7CHAPTER III. THE QUEEN OR MOTHER-BEE, THE DRONES, AND THE WORKERS; WITH VARIOUS HIGHLY IMPORTANT FACTS IN THEIR NATURAL HISTORY.
  8. 8On the way in which the eggs of the Queen Bee are fecundated.
  9. 9Effect of Retarded Impregnation on the Queen Bee.
  10. 10Fertile Workers.
  11. 11The Drones or Male Bees.
  12. 12The Production of so many Drones Necessary, in a State of Nature, to Prevent Degeneracy from "In and In Breeding."
  13. 13The Workers or Common Bees.
  14. 14Age of Bees.
  15. 15The process of rearing the Queen more particularly described.
  16. 16Royal Jelly.
  17. 17Artificial Rearing of Queens.
  18. 18CHAPTER IV. COMB.

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