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Gleanings in bee culture (1913) (14779660294)

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Title: Gleanings in bee culture

Year: 1874 (1870s)

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Subjects: Bees Bee culture

Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)

Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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ged combs are cut down to the properthickness, old queen-cells removed, bottom-bars cleaned—every thing being put in thebest possible condition, while at the sametime the colonies are getting used to beinghandled. We place tluee pieces of veneer,two inches wide, across the top-bars, pre-venting the bees from plastering the sec-lion-holders fast to them. We allow- thebees to store the miscellaneous flow^ of theearly spring in the brood-chamber. We have very feAv swarms during a goodhoney-flow. The ground slopes to the south,and the avenue is planted with catalpatrees; and, having no high trees about, ourswarms rarely leave the place. Last yearthere were eight that swarm.ed in successionon the same grapevine. All finished honey is carefully scraped,and packed in cases. The honey that isproduced in shallow extracting-frames iscut out and put in buckets, and sold asbulk comb honey, for wdiich there is quite ademand. Our market is local, most of thesales being made by telephone, although

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MARCH 1, 1913 155

Beekeeping, care and management of colonies of honeybees. They are kept for their honey and other products or their services as pollinators of fruit and vegetable blossoms or as a hobby. The practice is widespread: honeybees are kept in large cities and villages, on farms and rangelands, in forests and deserts, from the Arctic and Antarctic to the Equator. Honeybees are not domesticated. Those living in a man-made domicile called a beehive or hive are no different from those living in a colony in a tree.

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Maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, by humans.
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