Aug 2
Apiculture: scenes of beekeeping and honey gathering.
Wood engraving, 1885.
Dipping the wooden plate into melted wax.
Peeling the wax sheet off the wooden plate.
Passing the wax sheet through the foundation machine.
A sheet of foundation fastened into a frame.
An American apiary.
Uncapping the cells.
Placing the comb in the extracting machine.
Throwing the honey out of the comb.
Empty the comb ready to replace in the hiver, to be refilled by the bees.
Bee keeping and the manufacture of artificial honeycomb.