The Swarm
The Swarm
In early summer when the season is favorable for the storing of honey, the bees prosper and their hive is soon "boiling over" with…
The Swarm: Thorley
As a rule bees do not sting when swarming, and Thorley The Swarm tells in a very melodramatic manner how a swarm of bees once settled upon…
The Swarm: Burroughs
Burroughs gives us a fascinating description of the swarming of bees: - "I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away…
The Swarm: California
Muir pays his tribute to California Bruin's fondness for honey, thus: - "Bears, too, roam the sweet wilderness, their blunt, shaggy forms…
The Swarm: Aristotle
The woodpecker is said to insert its tongue into any seductive crack in the hive and draw forth the honey, though it is not accused of…
The Swarm: Bees
Bees, like other creatures, are subject to disease, a fact thus commented upon by Pliny: - "Bees are also by nature liable to certain…
The Swarm: Plant
There is a very beautiful plant, Cleome Integrifolia, growing wild in the west, and known as the Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, which yields an…
The Swarm: Narbonne
In France the rosemary of Narbonne has made the honey of that region famous; but we learn that this, like the honey of Hymettus, is living…
The Swarm: Wildman
In the old-fashioned box-hive, where the bees were smoked to death, thirty or forty pounds of mixed honey- Honey comb, brood-comb…
The Swarm: Hruschka
Langstroth thus explains the origin of the honeyextractor, - "In 1865 the late Major de Hruschka, of Dolo, near Venice, Italy, invented 'Il…
The Swarm: Pliny
Doubtless extracted honey is sometimes adulterated by dealers with cheap syrups and it is interesting to know that the adulteration of…
The Swarm: Isle
Menzel tells us that in Russia, whose steppes afford the bees rich nourishment, is found honey of all colors, white, yellow, brown, yes…
The Swarm: Xenophon
Serious results have sometimes followed the eating of poisonous honey, as in the well-known case of Xenophon's army during the Retreat of…
The Swarm: Heptacometæ
Strabo tells a still more harrowing tale of the honey of Pontus. After describing the mountains and speaking of the savage Heptacometæ who…
The Swarm: Kalmia
Again we are told : - "A party of young men, induced by the prospect of gain, having removed their hives from Pennsylvania to the Jerseys…
The Swarm: Heath
It is interesting to note that all of the above-mentioned poisonous plants belong to the Heath Family that gives us our blueberries…
The Swarm: Sometimes
Sometimes honey from poisonous flowers proves injurious to the young bees, and sometimes bees gather honey from other sources than flowers…
The Swarm: Honey
The source of honey was as puzzling to the ancients as Honey was the source of the offspring of the bees; and while they believed them to…
The Swarm: Honey-gems
Honey To-day confectionery is made principally of sugar, and fruits are generally preserved in it instead of in honey, the "quaint and…
The Swarm: Mead
MEAD MEAD, made from honey and water fermented, was the wine of the Northern peoples, being to them what the Blessed Soma juice was to the…
The Swarm: Rune
In the Rune calendar two drinking horns crossed signify January first, the time of the New Year's feast; and another of the signs of the…
The Swarm: Cattraeth
Later we read, - "The heroes marched to Cattraeth with the dawn; Their peace was disturbed by those who feared them; A hundred thousand…
The Swarm: Beowulf
In that old Anglo-Saxon pagan poem "Beowulf" of the seventh or eighth century, mead flows freely.
The Swarm: Valhalla
In Scandinavia mead was a national drink, and none who know the delights of Valhalla itself can doubt that mead flowed in those high halls…
The Swarm: Gudrun
The fatal potency of mead was not ignored even in song, for in the "Elder Edda," where Lok picks a quarrel with Elder, we read: - "For Asi…
The Swarm: Gallon
This is simplicity itself, and Thorley gives us another simple recipe for mead, which, he affirms, is "not inferior to the Best of foreign…
The Swarm: Wales
Bevan says, "In some parts of Wales the refuse combs are brewed with malt, spices, etc., and the produce is called Braggot, a name derived…
The Swarm: Take
Moffett declares the following recipes for hydromel to be those recommended by the famous physician Galen : - "Take sweet pure clean…
The Swarm: English
The English had a malted hydromel of their own which Moffett highly commends. "Lately," he says, "the English found out a new composition…
The Swarm: Honied
Galen, however, did not despise honeyed vinegar, but gives a simple recipe for making it, unflavored by severe remarks: - "Let the best…
The Swarm: Moffett
Honeyed wine is also called Œnomeli and mulsum, and Moffett says:- "Aristæus was the first that brought this into Thrace, being taken with…
The Swarm: Butler
One should suppose the following classical drink, called thalassiomeli, might merit similar criticism. It is made of "equal parts of…