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    A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees
    A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees
    A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees
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    A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees

    By John M. (John Moseley) Weeks

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees - John M. (John Moseley) Weeks

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees, by

      John M. Weeks

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees

      Author: John M. Weeks

      Release Date: October 27, 2008 [EBook #27065]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METHOD OF MANAGING BEES ***

      Produced by Roger Frank

      A

      MANUAL:

      OR AN

      EASY METHOD

      OF

      MANAGING BEES,

      IN THE MOST

      PROFITABLE MANNER TO THEIR OWNER,

      WITH

      INFALLIBLE RULES TO PREVENT THEIR

      DESTRUCTION BY THE MOTH.

      —

      BY JOHN M. WEEKS,

      Of Salisbury, Vt.

      —

      SECOND EDITION.

      MIDDLEBURY:

      ELAM R. JEWETT, PRINTER.

      .....

      1837.

      Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1836.

      By John M. Weeks,

      in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Vermont.

      PREFACE.

      ———

      It appears to the writer of the following pages, that a work of this description is much needed in our country.

      The cultivation of the bee (Apis Mellifica) has been too long neglected in most parts of the United States.

      This general neglect has unquestionably originated from the fact, that the European enemy to the bees, called the moth, has found its way into this country, and has located and naturalized itself here; and has made so much havoc among the bees, that many districts have entirely abandoned their cultivation. Many Apiarians, and men of the highest literary attainments, as well as experience, have nearly exhausted their patience, in examining the peculiar nature and habits of this insect; and have tried various experiments to devise some means of preventing its depredations. But, after all that has been done, the spoiler moves onward with little molestation, and very few of our citizens are willing to engage in the enterprize of cultivating this most useful and profitable of all insects, the honey-bee.

      The following work is comprised in a set of plain, concise rules, by which, if strictly adhered to and practised, any person, properly situated, may cultivate bees, and avail himself of all the benefits of their labors.

      If the Apiarian manages strictly in accordance with the following rules, the author feels confident that no colony will ever materially suffer by the moth, or will ever be destroyed by them.

      The author is aware of the numerous treatises published on this subject; but they appear to him, for the most part, to be the result not so much of experience as of vague and conjectural speculation, and not sufficiently embodying what is practical and useful.

      This work is intended as an accompaniment to the Vermont hive, and will be found to be the result of observation and experience, and it is thought comprises all that is necessary to make a skilful Apiarian.

      THE AUTHOR.

      INDEX

      MANUAL, &c.

      ———

      RULE I.

      ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BEE-HIVE.

      A bee-hive should be made of sound boards, free from shakes and cracks; it should also be planed smooth, inside and out, made in a workmanlike manner, and painted on its outside.

      REMARKS.

      That a bee-hive should be made perfect, so as to exclude light and air, is obvious from the fact, that the bees will finish what the workman has neglected, by plastering up all such cracks and crevices, or bad joints, as are left open by the joiner. The substance they use for this purpose is neither honey nor wax, but a kind of glue or cement of their own manufacturing, and is used by the bees to fill up all imperfect joints and exclude all light and air. This cement or glue is very congenial to the growth of the moth in the first stages of its existence.

      The moth miller enters the hive, generally, in the night—makes an incision into the glue or cement with her sting, and leaves her eggs deposited in the glue, where it remains secure from the bees; it being guarded by the timber on its sides. Thus, while a maggot, (larva) the moth uses the cement for food until it arrives so far towards a state of maturity as to be able to

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