The Honey Bee
The Honey Bee
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The common barbarous plan is to suffocate the whole stock with sulphur, and then, as dead men tell no tales, and dead bees do not use theirs, it is very easy to cut out the comb at your leisure. But in any case Mr. Cotton's plan is far preferable. Instead of suffocating, he stupefies them. Instead of the brim- stone match, he gathers, when half ripe, a fungus (F. jmlverulentus) which grows in damp meadows, which countryfolk call " pufl-balls," or " frog's cheese," or "bimt," or "puckfist," drie...s it till it will hold fire like tinder, and then applies it to the hive in what he calls a " smoker." The bees being thus rendered quite harmless, any operation of the hive, such as taking the honey, cutting out old comb, ^removing the queen, or joining stocks, may be most easily performed. The bees may be then handled like a sample of grain. This plan of fumigation — which he does not profess himself the author of, but to have borrowed from the work of the before-men- tioned Mr. Thorley, reprinted in the * Bee-book ' — we consider as the most valuable of the practical part of Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The common barbarous plan is to suffocate the whole stock with sulphur, and then, as dead men tell no tales, and dead bees do not use theirs, it is very easy to cut out the comb at your leisure. But in any case Mr. Cotton's plan is far preferable. Instead of suffocating, he stupefies them. Instead of the brim- stone match, he gathers, when half ripe, a fungus (F. jmlverulentus) which grows in damp meadows, which countryfolk call " pufl-balls," or " frog's cheese," or "bimt," or "puckfist," drie...s it till it will hold fire like tinder, and then applies it to the hive in what he calls a " smoker." The bees being thus rendered quite harmless, any operation of the hive, such as taking the honey, cutting out old comb, ^removing the queen, or joining stocks, may be most easily performed. The bees may be then handled like a sample of grain. This plan of fumigation — which he does not profess himself the author of, but to have borrowed from the work of the before-men- tioned Mr. Thorley, reprinted in the * Bee-book ' — we consider as the most valuable of the practical part of Mr.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library Wu to read onlineMoreLess
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