Identifier: gleaningsinbeecu44medi (find matches)
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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y a table two feet wide by ten feet inlength, upon which was placed all the bestbooks, journals, circulars, and bulletins onapiculture, all Avired down so they couldnot be misplaced but could be readily con-sulted. The exhibit also included a modernhive for comb-honey production complete,all the apparatus for the extraction of hon-ey and wax, including an A. I. Root auto-matic reversible extractor, and all of tliesmall apparatus and tools necessary in amodern apiary. On wall space at the endwere placed two large charts illustrating,by means of paper models and drawings,bulletins of the United States Depaitment.the anatomy of the queen, drone, and work-er, the manner of secreting wax, collecting)iollen, etc.—also some models of the honey-bee, done in modelen by the pupils inthe second grade of the LeConte PublicSchool in Berkeley, which weie particularlygood. The special feature of the exhil)il. how-ever, were the observation hives containingthe live bees at work. There were three of
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FEBRUARY 1, 1916 101 these hives, two of my own design and eon-struotion, and one of the eight-frame Rootobservation hives, one being placed in eachof the thi-ee compartments, and containingrespectively colonies of each of the threestandard races—Carniolan, Caucasian, andItalian, in order to illustrate the character-istics and markings of each of these racesof bees. These colonies were placed in thehives in April, and supported themselvesthruout the exposition period of eightmonths, with no feeding except a verylittle at the beginning. The manner ofconnecting the hives with the wall and out-side is vei-y interesting as showing whatbees will do when necessary. In order tohave their entrance raised above the headsof the people entering one of the maindoors of the building which was just ad-joining the exhibit, it was necessary toplace the entrance holes in the wall ten feetabove the giound, leaving a distance ofsome seven feet between the hives and thewall entrance on the inside. This

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