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

Author: L. L. Langstroth

Release Date: February 11, 2008 [EBook #24583]

Language: English

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[Illustration:

So work the Honey Bees.
Creatures that by a rule in Nature, teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.--_Shakspeare._]

[Illustration: Worker. Drone. Queen.

The above are a very accurate representations of the QUEEN, the WORKER
and the DRONE. The group of bees in the title page, represents the
attitude in which the bees surround their Queen or Mother as she rests
upon the comb.]

LANGSTROTH
ON THE
HIVE AND THE HONEY-BEE,

A Bee Keeper's Manual,

BY

REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH.

[Illustration: EVERY GOOD MOTHER SHOULD BE THE
HONORED QUEEN OF A HAPPY FAMILY.]

NORTHAMPTON:
HOPKINS, BRIDGMAN & COMPANY.
1853.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
L. L. LANGSTROTH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

C. A. MIRICK, PRINTER, GREENFIELD.

PREFACE.

This Treatise on the Hive and the Honey-Bee, is respectfully submitted
by the Author, to the candid consideration of those who are interested
in the culture of the most useful as well as wonderful Insect, in all
the range of Animated Nature. The information which it contains will be
found to be greatly in advance of anything which has yet been presented
to the English Reader; and, as far as facilities for practical
management are concerned, it is believed to be a very material advance
over anything which has hitherto been communicated to the Apiarian
Public.

Debarred, by the state of his health, from the more appropriate duties
of his Office, and compelled to seek an employment which wo