 | Henry Baker Tristram - Eretz Israel - 1865 - 714 pages
...assist the bees in alighting. At first, we took these singular structures for ovens or hen-houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...carefully replaced, and the hives then closed up again. Everywhere during our journey, we found honey was always to be purchased; and it is used by the natives... | |
 | Alfred Neighbour - Bees - 1866 - 326 pages
...to assist the bees in alighting. At first we took these singular structures for ovens or hen-houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...carefully replaced, and the hives then closed up again. Everywhere during our journey we found honey was always to be purchased; and it is used by the natives... | |
 | Henry Baker Tristram - Nature in the Bible - 1875 - 544 pages
...assist the bees in « lighting. At first we look these singular structures for ovens or hen-houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...hook : those pieces of comb which contain young bees are carefully replaced, and the hives then closed up again. Honey, wild or from hives, is always to... | |
 | Bees - Bee culture - 1882 - 144 pages
...assist the bees in alighting. At first we took these singular structures for ovens, or hen-houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...young bees being carefully replaced, and the hives closed up agai1i. Everywhere during our journey we found honey was always to be purchased ; and it... | |
 | Henry Chichester Hart - Animals in the Bible - 1888 - 250 pages
...three bees to pass at a time. These tubes are laid in rows horizontally, and piled in a pyramid . . . When the hives are full, the clay is removed from...pipes, and the honey extracted with an iron hook.' Bees form the family Apiariae of the Aculeate section of Hymenopterous insects. They are divided into... | |
 | Henry Chichester Hart - Animals in the Bible - 1888 - 250 pages
...three bees to pass at a time. These tubes are laid in rows horizontally, and piled in a pyramid . . . When the hives are full, the clay is removed from...pipes, and the honey extracted with an iron hook.' Bees form the family Apiariae of the Aculeate section of Hymenopterous insects. They are divided into... | |
 | John Mee Fuller - Bible - 1893 - 956 pages
...tu assist the bees in alighting. At first we took these singular structures for ovens or hen houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...are full, the clay is removed from the ends of the tubes and the combs are extracted with a hook. Those pieces which contain yooas bees are carefully... | |
 | Henry Baker Tristram - Nature in the Bible - 1911 - 542 pages
...to assist the bees in alighting. At first we took these singular structures for ovens or hen-houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...hook: those pieces of comb which contain young bees are carefully replaced, and the hives then closed up again. Honey, wild or from hives, is always to... | |
 | Henry Baker Tristram - Nature in the Bible - 1911 - 542 pages
...to assist the bees in alighting. At first we took these singular structures for ovens or hen-houses. The barbarous practice of destroying the swarms for...hook: those pieces of comb which contain young bees are carefully replaced, and the hives then closed up again. Honey, wild or from hives, is always to... | |
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... hive. Coolness being the great object, the whole is thickly plastered over with mud, and covered with boughs, while a branch is stuck in the ground at each end, to assist the bees in alighting. At first, we took these singular structures for ovens... 