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    Bee Keeping in Maryland
    Bee Keeping in Maryland
    Bee Keeping in Maryland
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    Bee Keeping in Maryland

    By T. B. Symons

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    This is a vintage guide to bee-keeping in Maryland, USA. It explores the state of Maryland bee-keeping in the early twentieth century by looking at its history, development, and future. It also contains chapters on setting up and managing a beehive, making it of utility to modern bee-keepers. Contents include: "The Status of Bee Keeping in the State", "Introduction", "The Needs of Such an Investigation", "Results of Cooperative Work", "Distribution of Bees in the State", "Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station", "Increase and Loss of Colonies", "Production of Honey and Wax", "Sources of Honey", "The Management of Bees", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping. First published in 1911.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHome Farm Books
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9781473342613
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      Bee Keeping in Maryland - T. B. Symons

      BEES.

      THE MARYLAND

      AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

      BULLETIN 154.JUNE, 1911.

      BEE KEEPING IN MARYLAND.

      I. THE STATUS OF BEE KEEPING IN THE STATE.

      BY T. B. SYMONS.

      INTRODUCTION.

      The keeping of bees for profit is in its infancy in Maryland. Those who gain their entire livelihood from this business are few, but there are thousands who keep bees as a side issue to their regular business for either profit or pleasure. There is no industry in whose progress and protection the farming class as a whole should be more interested than in apiculture. It does not follow from this statement that all farmers should be bee keepers, for it is not the aim of the friends of apiculture to greatly increase the number of persons keeping bees, but to make better bee keepers of those already in the business. In the light of comparatively recent discoveries of the existence of serious communicable diseases among bees, it is specially urged that only those who are prepared to give the apiary proper attention, should undertake to keep bees even if only for pleasure.

      The honey bee is an important factor as a pollenizing agent, especially in cross-pollinating the blossoms of many of our fruits. It has long been known that the blossoms of many varieties of fruit, as well as other plants, require cross pollination to set a full crops. It is probable that no other insect is superior to the honey bee in performing this service. Many practical fruit growers keep bees for this purpose, and the growers of the vegetables under glass, regularly introduce bees into their green houses to pollinate cucumbers and other flowers. Probably this useful insect can be given credit for causing some of our best varieties that have originated from seedlings. As the people of this state become more and more interested in horticulture, they must at the same time, bear in mind the protection of the honey bee, which aids them in producing full crops.

      Aside from the great service rendered by the honey bee in cross pollinating the flowers of fruit trees and grains, its ability to manufacture the nectar into a most palatable food, which otherwise would undoubtedly be lost to man, makes this insect a subject of unusual interest to the general public. It may not be out of place to comment here that notwithstanding the great increase in recent years in the manufacture of adulterated foods, no one has yet devised a method to manufacture comb honey. Moreover, with the passage of the Pure Food Law by Congress, inferior substitutes for extracted honey can no longer lawfully be sold under the name honey.

      While the State of Maryland offers abundant opportunity for successful bee keeping, there are comparatively few progressive bee keepers in the state. There are however, thousands who keep a few colonies. These are too often kept under conditions, which are a menace to the industry.

      While Maryland has not been prominent as a honey producing state, yet she has furnished some distinguished bee keepers. For several years Rev. L. L. Langstroth, who may be justly called the father of American apiculture, resided in Baltimore. His perfection of the movable frame hive revolutionized the industry in this country. Probably no improvement has been so universally adopted by the trade as the Langstroth’s hive, and his writings on bee keeping speak for his genius. One of the hives originally owned by Mr. Langstroth was exhibited by Mr. Chas. H. Lake, a venerable and enthusiastic bee keeper of the state, at the 1909 meeting of the Maryland State Bee Keepers Association. Richard Colvin, who was one of the first to introduce the Italian bee to the United States, also lived in Baltimore. No doubt the enthusiasm and knowledge of the business of these men were a great incentive to Maryland bee keepers at that

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