by L. L. Langstroth
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The first descriptive treatise of modern bee management. In a reader-friendly, enthusiastic style, Langstroth addresses every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and worker; bee-hives; the handling of bees; and many other topics. 25 plates.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great historical beekeeping book!, 2008-11-18
Great book! I'm going to read it again. There is much to be learned from ole triple-L.
More modern books are the ones I depend upon for day-to-day use. Also, I'd recommend The Hive and the Honey Bee from Dadant for a more up to date and much thicker book.
The only complaints I have are for Dover. The price is too high. The print is fairly small in the main portion of the text but it's extremely small in the footnotes. Since some of the footnotes are very long this is a real problem. Also, it must have been printed from photographic copies instead of typeset. Many of the letters of the alphabet are chopped off and it sometimes takes a bit to understand what word was intended.
As far as content I give it 5 stars but for quality of printing it gets 3 stars. Average that out to 4 stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 "Bees and being", 2008-04-28
In my beginning-beekeeping family, my husband reads the practical books; I read Langstroth, who tends to rhapsodize on the love and concern shown the queen by her daughters, and that sort of thing. Any beekeeper (and we may all have this bent) who loves thinking about the implications of bees almost as much as working with the furry little creatures themselves will love spending time with this rambling, philosophical naturalist.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A real beekeeper's time machine, 2008-02-26
I've been keeping bees now for a year and thought it would be neat to read this classic text without spending hundreds of dollars for an original copy on ebay. Rev. Langstroth's writing style is really beautiful and definately gives the reader a visual in your mind. It's so interesting to see how science and religion were so closly mixed during this time period. I love how he affirms creation through the science of bees. Very cool book but because of the older style ornate writing it can be difficult to read at times.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Great basic Beekeeping.. olde school, 2007-11-08
Beekeeping the way it was.. before all the chemicals and big business.. when most everyone had a hive or 2 as the only sweetener you could afford.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
 Informative, but curiously flawed, 2007-11-02
I'm editing this to add that the publisher, Dover Publications rapidly responded to my query in regard to the manufacturing error explained below, and sent me a replacement copy. If I were able, I would increase my rating to 4 stars. It misses getting five because, while it contains much information that is both valuable and valid today, substantial portions of the text are devoted to convincing the skeptics of the 1850's.
To canvass the beekeeping territory, I picked up a few titles on bees, including Langstroth's Hive and the Honeybee, which appealed to both my desire to raise bees and my interest in American History.
I was quite surprised then to find that at page 160, Langstroth's exposition on artificial swarming ends in mid-sentence. The next 30 pages are devoted to the heros of Celtic mythology. Though I am of Scots and Irish descent, I knew next to nothing, of Celtic mythology beyond that cribbed by T.H. white. Thanks to a production error at Dover, I can now sustain 15 to 20 minutes of cocktail party banter about the Welsh name, Caledvwlch, of Arthur's sword, Escalibur, (from, mind you, the Latin Caliburnis) and the parallels with, if not blatant plagairism by, Malory, of the Cuchulainn stories, as the foundation stones of Arthurian legend were set in place.
Aside from this flaw however, Langstroth remains a powerful primer on the beekeeping art. One well worth reading in an age where organic methods hold promise in the effort to combat Chronic Collapse Disorder.
When Reverend Langstroth developed his methods of hive management, organic beekeeping was the only kind that existed. His discussions of the means and methods for combating the parasites and diseases that afflicted bees 150 years ago are as applicable today when it appears that commercial bee operations must radically change or perish, as they were before and after the civil war when chemical means for bee management simply did not exist.
Quaint in language, Langstroth nevertheless delivers, and while I purchase my hive equipment from a modern manufacturer, I am confident that armed with only Langstroth and the tools my great grandfather left me, I could build an equally good, and substantially similar hive.
As modern petroleum based agriculture begins to sway and collapse under the weight of genetically modified organisms, hydrocarbon based fertilizers and pesticides, leached out soil, antibiotic resistant strains of disease, subsurface compaction, and the erosion of topsoil, it is delightful to discover that the knowledge of largely preindustrial agrarians has been preserved. Their methods remain reasonably achievable today and demonstrate a possible pathway back to small scale, sustainable production methods largely free of the industrial accoutrement under which farmers stumble to remain profitable today.
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