. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May, litl4. American Hee Journal sive experience with foreign races of bees. His central position enabled him for years to import bees from all over the Old World. So he has tried not only the Italian, Carniolan, Cyp- rian and Palestine bees, but bees from the Balearic Islands and from Tripoli. These bees are yellow. They were very cross, though they are said to be gentle in their country. Our host sug- gested that their temper may have been changed by the change in climate and conditions. He cited as an example the white donkeys of Egypt, which were
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May, litl4. American Hee Journal sive experience with foreign races of bees. His central position enabled him for years to import bees from all over the Old World. So he has tried not only the Italian, Carniolan, Cyp- rian and Palestine bees, but bees from the Balearic Islands and from Tripoli. These bees are yellow. They were very cross, though they are said to be gentle in their country. Our host sug- gested that their temper may have been changed by the change in climate and conditions. He cited as an example the white donkeys of Egypt, which were imported into France. It appears that at the time of the digging of the Suez canal, the Empress Eugenie, of France, visited Suez and was very much pleased with the little white don- keys put at her disposal and that of her ladies in waiting, by the Khedive of Egypt. They were so gentle and pleas- ant for riding that she expressed the desire to take some of them home with her. She was immediately presented with some of the finest specimens which the Khedive could find. The white donkey is the beast of burden of Suez, and we are even told that some of the sand dug out of the canal was carried out on the back of donkeys. But the white donkeys, when housed in the imperial stables at Paris, proved so cross and unmanageable that they had to be promptly disposed of. Perhaps the change of treatment they received was, as much as the cli- mate, the cause of their changed be- havior. In how many instances will not our bees prove cross because ill- managed ? While at our friend's home, we re- ceived some 20 different invitations, from Switzerland, from Italy, from Marseille, from Bordeaux, etc., and we found it necessary to settle upon a definite itinerary for the balance of our trip. It became just like a fairy tale, and the constant kaleidoscopic changes of scenery, the successive re- ceptions we were given would have caused everything to blur in our minds, had we not daily put our thoug
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