. Gleanings in bee culture . better one. Our foreign mailcontinually brings to us letters from onecountry asking for information regardinganother. A New Zealander will write de-?siring to locate in the United States, onefrom Australia regarding locating in theArgentine, etc. Beekeeping in Guatemala is of the mush-room variety. Four or five years ago therewas no- one in the republic keeping bees un-der modern conditions, or producing honeyas a commercial proposition but today thereare possibly 50,000 colonies or more in mod-ern equipment. A young American whohad been interested in beekeeping in
. Gleanings in bee culture . better one. Our foreign mailcontinually brings to us letters from onecountry asking for information regardinganother. A New Zealander will write de-?siring to locate in the United States, onefrom Australia regarding locating in theArgentine, etc. Beekeeping in Guatemala is of the mush-room variety. Four or five years ago therewas no- one in the republic keeping bees un-der modern conditions, or producing honeyas a commercial proposition but today thereare possibly 50,000 colonies or more in mod-ern equipment. A young American whohad been interested in beekeeping in Cali-fornia arrived on the Pacific Coast of Guate-mala possibly four years ago with the ideaof becoming interested in beekeeping; hiscapital being very limited indeed preventedhim from venturing on any large scale, andthe only thing he could do was to make anattempt to interest some of the large pro-gressive owners of coffee plantations or fincas. Finally a few of the large finca owners were induced to put in a few colo-. Castor oil trees or cheaply constiucted sheds are frequently used in this land of hot sunshine to supply shade for the hives. However, in the case of some young menwith ambition who know the business, thisis not a bad field, and beginning with thisthey may pass into other opportunities ofwhich there arc many. I myself want to seemore Americans enter these countries anddevelop them and bring them under the in-fluences of American ways of doing things. iiies of bees, and the interest in beekeepingand honey production is so strong today thatthe American Consul at one of the ports ofentry stated that if this activity continuedto grow in the future as it had grown in thelast three years, honey would be in a veryfew years the third or fourth export of theRepublic.—Editor.] January, 19 OLEANINGS IN BEfi CULTURE 1& W^Wi^^^l
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