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- Beehive Created from a Hollow Log, 1850-1900 - Colonists who relocated from European countries and settled in North America imported <em>Apis mellifera</em> to ensure access to honey and to sustain crops that they moved with their bees. When honeybees swarmed into hollow trees, colonists sometimes cut out the tree and moved it closer to their gardens, orchards, and clover fields to keep honey close to the kitchen table.
- 1850-1900
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Beehive Created from a Hollow Log, 1850-1900
Colonists who relocated from European countries and settled in North America imported Apis mellifera to ensure access to honey and to sustain crops that they moved with their bees. When honeybees swarmed into hollow trees, colonists sometimes cut out the tree and moved it closer to their gardens, orchards, and clover fields to keep honey close to the kitchen table.
- Dunham Honeycomb Foundation Machine, 1881-1890 - Mrs. Frances "Fannie" A. Dunham of De Pere, Wisconsin, patented this foundation press to aid honeybees with building comb. The machine pressed beeswax into a prefabricated comb. This theoretically freed bees from some of the labor and honey required to build honeycomb. Instead bees could create a more uniform comb (building from the prefabricated parts), a product more appealing to consumers buying honey.
- 1881-1890
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Dunham Honeycomb Foundation Machine, 1881-1890
Mrs. Frances "Fannie" A. Dunham of De Pere, Wisconsin, patented this foundation press to aid honeybees with building comb. The machine pressed beeswax into a prefabricated comb. This theoretically freed bees from some of the labor and honey required to build honeycomb. Instead bees could create a more uniform comb (building from the prefabricated parts), a product more appealing to consumers buying honey.
- "Beekeeping," Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge Series No. 3362, 1930 -
- 1930
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"Beekeeping," Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge Series No. 3362, 1930
- "Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey Bee," 1908 -
- 1908
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"Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey Bee," 1908
- Beehive Created from a Hollow Log -
- Collections - Artifact
Beehive Created from a Hollow Log