The American Apiculturist 



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LANGSTROTH, THE 

 'HUBER" OF AMERICA. 



By J. E. Pond, jr. 



The beginner in bee-culture of 

 tlie present day can have no con- 

 ception of the man}'- difficulties 

 tliat were met with under tlie "old 

 box-hive and brimstone" style of 

 management, or the almost insur- 

 mountable obstacles that presented 

 themselves to the old-time ama- 

 teur in an attempt to solve 

 those m3^steries, which now are 

 made plain as an open book. True 

 it is that, in daj's long gone bj^ 

 something had been learned in re- 

 gard to the habits of tlie lioney-bee ; 

 the methods of management then 

 in vogue, n'lde though they were, 

 still were productive of some little 

 gain. The late lamented Qainby, a 

 man of vigorous frame, possessed 

 1 



of rare intelligence, and an acute, 

 active and far-reaching mind, 

 not only had shown that even with 

 the box-hive, and such rough ap- 

 pliances as he necessaril}' used 

 therewith, one could by close atten- 

 tion to the business, and by careful, 

 intelligent management, bring 

 about results that were fairly remun- 

 erative, but was one of the first 

 to see and appreciate the value of 

 the movable frame of Mr. Lang- 

 stroth, and also to adopt and use 

 it ; by which use he encouraged 

 and emboldened Mr. Langstroth to 

 make his invention public, and tlius 

 aided in making apiculture what it 

 now is, one of the leading indus- 

 tries of the world. He also by 

 close observation enabled himself 

 to garner in those faots which, when 

 published and given to the world, 

 opened a new field for labor, both 

 intellectual and manual ; and his 

 work on bee-culture to-day, as re- 

 vised by his son-in-law, Mr. L. C. 

 Root, stands out before the world, as 

 one of the best treatises on the 

 subject which has ever been written. 

 Prior to 1852, the ablest bee- 

 keepers of both the old and the new 

 world were endeavoring to render 

 tlie management of their bees more 

 simple and easy, and man}' plans 

 had been devised (none of which 

 were reall}' practicable) to enable 

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