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Humanity to Honey-Bees; Or, Practical Directions for the Management of Honey-Bees Upon an Improved and Humane Plan, . by Which the Lives of Bees May B - Brossura
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832. Excerpt: ... As I have been frequently asked to explain the utility of ventilation in a hive or colony of Bees, so have I as frequently been asked, sometimes with civility and politeness, sometimes jeeringly and in contempt;--" What has the thermometer to do with Bees?" I answer--We shall see presently; and, I trust, see enough to convince the veriest sceptic on the subject, that the thermometer is an instrument that is indispensably necessary in the management of Bees according to my plan. Such inquirers might as reasonably ask what the mainspring of a watch has to do with the movements of that machine? Without the mainspring the watch would not work at all; and without the thermometer we cannot ascertain with any degree of accuracy the interior temperature of the hive; which is of the utmost consequence in the humane management of honey Bees. The thermometer is the safest, if not the sole guide to a scientific knowledge of their state and works. To ventilate an apiary or colony of Bees, when their interior temperature is under 60 degrees, is ruinous to them,--is contrary to their natural labours. From upwards of fifteen hundred observations in the summer of 1825, I am fully satisfied on this point. Their nature is to encourage that heat by their indefatigable labours; and as the temperature rises, so does it invigorate and encourage an increase of population, as well as an increase of their treasured sweets. As the hive fills, so will the thermometer rise to 120 and even to 130 degrees, before these worthies will leave their wealthy home. When the thermometer is at the above height, these wealthy colonists will have arrived at the highest state of perfection,--wealthy indeed, every store-house being filled nearly to suffocation with their abundant treasures, and the...
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- EditoreGeneral Books LLC
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1150449446
- ISBN 13 9781150449444
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine44
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