A Practical Treatise on the Hive and Honey-Bee 3rd Edition
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A Practical Treatise on the Hive and Honey-Bee 3rd Edition
by Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth
A Practical Treatise on the Hive and Honey-Bee 3rd Edition
By Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth
Publisher: A O MOORE AND CO
Number Of Pages: 460
Publication Date: 1859
ISBN-10 / ASIN: B00157UZNY
ISBN-13 / EAN:
Binding: Hardcover
About the author:
Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (25 December 1810 – October 6, 1895),
apiarian, clergyman and teacher, is considered the “Father of American Beekeeping.”
L. L. Langstroth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was graduated at Yale University in 1831, and subsequently held a tutorship there in 1834-1835.
After this he was pastor of various Congregational churches in Massachusetts,
including the South Congregational Church in Andover, Massachusetts in May of 1836.
In 1848 became principal of a young ladies’ school in Philadelphia.
He took up beekeeping in part to distract himself from the serious bouts of depression from which he suffered.
He was married to Anne Tucker (1812—23 January 1873) of Massachusetts.
They had three children, all born in Massachusetts: James (1837), Anna (1841), Harriet A. (1847).
The Leaf Hive, invented in Switzerland in 1789 by Francis Huber, was a fully movable frame hive,
but had solid frames that were touching and made up the “box”.
The combs in this hive were examined like pages in a book.
Langstroth acknowledged Huber’s contribution:
“The use of the Huber hive had satisfied me, that with proper precautions the combs
might be removed without enraging the bees, and that these insects were capable
of being tamed to a surprising degree. Without knowledge of these facts,
I should have regarded a hive permitting the removal of the combs, as
quite too dangerous for practical use.” (Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, 1860)
In Europe, both Jan Dzierżon and August von Berlepsch had been focused on side-opened hives.
The land resources had been limited and traditionally the bees had been kept in beehouses.
The so called presently “bee space” had been incorporated by Berlepsch following Dzierzon’s discoveries,
from years 1845-1848, into his frame arrangement (Bienen-Zeitung, May 1852).
It means the correct distance between side bar of the frame and hive wall was already there in Europe.
Langstroth revolutionized the beekeeping industry by using bee space in his top opened hive.
In the summer of 1851 he found that, by leaving an even, approximately bee-sized space
between the top of the frames holding the honeycomb and the flat coverboard lying above,
he was able to quite easily remove the latter, which was normally well cemented to the
frames with propolis making separation hard to achieve.
Later he had the idea to use this discovery to make the frames themselves easily removable.
He found that, if he left a small space (less than 1/4 inch or 6.4 mm) between the combs,
or between the combs and the sides of his hives, the bees would fill it with propolis thus
cementing the combs into the hive. On the other hand, when he left a larger space
(more than 3/8 inch or 9.5 mm) the bees would fill it with comb which had a similar effect.
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