1789 - Agriculture

Agriculture

Traité sur la culture et les usages des pommes de terre by Antoine-Auguste Parmentier at Paris instructs readers on how to cultivate potatoes and cook them (see 1785; Tuileries gardens, 1793).

The first movable-frame beehive is constructed by Swiss naturalist François Huber, 39, who has discovered the aerial impregnation of the queen bee and the killing of males by worker bees. Huber is nearly blind, but his wife, his son, and a servant have helped him to study the life and habits of honeybees (see Langstroth, 1852).

Nine out of 10 Americans are engaged in farming and food production (see 1820).