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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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shrubs and plants we may name the strawberry, raspberry.mignonette, thyme, crocus, and white clover. The blossoms ot thered clover and honey suckle yield honey in abundance, but it lies be-yond the reach of the bee. Buck wheat contains more than mostplants ; but it is less palatable. It answers well for winter stores torthe bees and of no kind are they more fond. Bee Bread, as already noted is the pollen or dust of flowers, col-lected by the bees in the manner before described. Its only use ap-pears to be for feeding the young, to which it is administered by theworkers grain by grain. Hives. Until within a few years little attention has been paid to theconstruction of hives. A few boards put together at the moment otnecessity, were all that were deemed essential. They were, perhaps,covered with dirt and full of flaws and cracks, to remedy which incon-veniences would require the industry of the new colony some days, ifnot weeks. Mjre - .lightened views are now entertained on this sub-
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174 FAMILY BEES. ject, and much ingenuity has been exercised in constructing tenementsfor bees to render them comfortable—to secure them from the invasionof the bee moth, and to admit of the superabundant honey being re-moved without injuring or disturbing the bees. For a luminous viewof this subject we would refer our readers to the excellent practicaltreatise on Bees by Dr. Thacher, published in Boston. It is with pleasure that we introduce the following account from theNorth American Review, for June 1828, of a hive invented and suc-cessfully employed for a number of years, by Mrs. Mary Griffith, ofNew Brunswick, N. J. which is likely, according to that Journal, soonto supersede every other now in use. The Charlieshope hive, is thirteen inches square at the top ; but asthe sides decrease in width to the bottom the base is narrower, being onlyseven inches on the flanks, and thirteen inches in front and at the back.The hive is in height about twenty-six inches in front, and twenty

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