Apiarian

This was intolerable, and forthwith the Apiarian brotherhood of the free States put together their heads with those of the slave

William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Archibald Henry Grimk�� 1889

Success indeed can only be possible when a skillful Apiarian devotes a large portion of his time to watching and managing his bees, so as to _compel_ them to colonize, and even then it will be very uncertain; so that this plausible theory to be reduced to even a most precarious practice, requires more skill, care, labor and time, than are necessary to manage the ordinary swarming hives.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

It is related of an enthusiastic Apiarian, that after a long and severe attack of fever, he was never able to take any more pleasure in his bees; his secretions seem to have undergone some change, so that the bees assailed him as soon as he ventured to approach their hives.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

If the Apiarian is skillful, and attends to his bees, at the proper time, they will rarely need much feeding; if he manages them in such a manner that this is frequently and extensively needed, I can assure him, if he has not already found it out to his sorrow, that his bees will be nothing but a bill of cost and vexation.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

The same able contributor to Apiarian science, thinks that pollen is used by the bees when they are engaged in comb-building; and that unless they are well supplied with it, they cannot rapidly secrete wax, without very severely taxing their strength.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

I shall quote, in this connection, from Huish, an English Apiarian of whom I have already spoken, because his objections to the discoveries of Huber, remind me so forcibly of both the spirit and principles of the great majority of those who object to the doctrines of revealed religion.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

I shall now give some directions, which will greatly assist the Apiarian in his operations.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

If the Apiarian has a pair of sharp pruning-shears, and the limb on which the bees have clustered, is of no value, and so small, that it can be cut without jarring them off, this may be done, and the bees carried on it and then shaken off on the sheet.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

Very early in my Apiarian studies, I procured an imported copy of the work of the celebrated Huber, and constructed a hive on his plan, which furnished me with favorable opportunities of verifying some of his most valuable discoveries; and I soon found that the prejudices existing against him, were entirely unfounded.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

Apiarian could be sure of selling his new swarms at the most extravagant prices, he could not, like the growers of mulberry trees, or the breeders of fancy fowls, multiply his stocks so as to meet the demand, however extensive; but would be entirely dependent upon the whims and caprices of his bees; or rather, upon the natural laws which control their swarming.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852