THE 
PYRAMIDAL BEE-HIVE: 
‘Pah and Patural Macthor | 
PRESERVING AND PERPETUATING 
POPULATION OF BEES, 
RECEIVING ANNUALLY, FROM EACH FAMILY, 
A BOX FULL OF 
WAX AND PURE HONEY, 
WITHOUT DISTURBING THE BEES, OR DESTROYING THE 
COUVAIN; 
AND THE ART OF RESTORING HIVES, 
(WHOSE POPULATION HAS PERISHED) 
BY HATCHING THE EGGS, REMAINING IN THE CELLS, 
BY THE 
eat of the Su. 
ALSO, THE 
ART OF CONVERTING HONEY 
INTO ! 
WHITE, INODOROUS SUGAR, 
AND OF MAKING 
HYDROMEL, SIRUPS, &c. 
A WORK USEFUL TOFARMERS. . 
i 
BY P. DUCOUEDIC, / 3 
PRESIDENT DU CANTON DU MAURE, DEPARTMENT D’ ILLE-ET-VILAIN. 
Letitiam, laudem, copiam, hine sperate coloni.. 
ABRIDGED, AND TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, 
BY SILAS DINSMOOR. 
=o B Ett 
PHILADELPHIA: 
CAREY, LEA & CAREY. 
1829. 
