. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPING IN OTHER COUNTRIES Lecture by Thos. W. Cowan, , &c, given at the , Conversazione, March 19th, 1914. (Continued from page 153.) The next picture is that of Ramon Gonzales in Haiti, and you will see that there, also, are quite advanced bee- bare feet. In the following picture a native is examining the brood in the combs, and you will notice the small shallow frames. I do not know what bee they cultivate, but, judging by the small size of the cells it is probably Apis indica, which is said to be a small but docil
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPING IN OTHER COUNTRIES Lecture by Thos. W. Cowan, , &c, given at the , Conversazione, March 19th, 1914. (Continued from page 153.) The next picture is that of Ramon Gonzales in Haiti, and you will see that there, also, are quite advanced bee- bare feet. In the following picture a native is examining the brood in the combs, and you will notice the small shallow frames. I do not know what bee they cultivate, but, judging by the small size of the cells it is probably Apis indica, which is said to be a small but docile bee. AMERICA. Bee-keeping in the United States of America, and in Canada is carried on very much on the same plan as it is here, only on a much larger scale, so that I need not devote very much time to it. However, I wish to bring before you a portrait of MR. C. P. keepers. The hives in the apiary of M. Malherbe Pressor are on tall legs, and are arranged amidst tropical vegetation, and you will observe that the ladies and gentlemen are dressed in light tropical costumes. From Haiti we can go to India, and here are natives manipulating frames at the apiary of St. Joseph's College in Trichinopoly. The Hindoos who have charge of the apiary do not seem to mind the bees, as they go about with C. P. Dadant, who is not only a pro- minent bee-keeper in America, but whose name is also well known in Europe, as he and his father have done much to popularise the horizontal, frame-hive on the European Continent. Mr. Dadant is of French extraction, and has been a frequent contributor to European bee- papers, and it is through his influence that the movable comb-hive is so rapidly spreading over the whole of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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