Apiculture

The care, management, aud breeding of bees and the production of honey. Bees have been kept for the honey they produce since very early times; but it was not till Langstroth by the invention of the movable frame hive in 1852. made it po ible to examine the condition of the colony at any time, that beekeeping was reduced to anything like system. The further invention of a proce for removing the honey from the comb by centrifugal force, without destroying the comb, and the use of artificial comb foundations, have led to still further advances in the art of beekeeping. The use of the movable frame hive also renders it po ible to remove the young queens before they emerge from the cells and so to largely control swarming, Two kinds of bees are commonly kept, black, or German, and yellow banded, or Italian. The latter are usually considered more docile, better honey gatherers, and le liable to disease. Hybrids of the two races are not uncommon.