. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 31,1910.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 131 out of small ones by the simple expedient of piling the brood-boxes of several colonies together. In a word, it was the 'Dreadnought" principle applied to the peaceful traffic of the hives.—Pall Mall Gazette. THE GREAT TRADE IN HONEY. THE CONSERVATION OF THE BEE. The Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Bepublics for February contains an interesting paper on honey, by Mr. Russell H. Millward. It is not known, he says, of which coun- try the bee is a native, though it is know
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 31,1910.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 131 out of small ones by the simple expedient of piling the brood-boxes of several colonies together. In a word, it was the 'Dreadnought" principle applied to the peaceful traffic of the hives.—Pall Mall Gazette. THE GREAT TRADE IN HONEY. THE CONSERVATION OF THE BEE. The Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Bepublics for February contains an interesting paper on honey, by Mr. Russell H. Millward. It is not known, he says, of which coun- try the bee is a native, though it is known for a certainty that primitive man kept aside about £2,000 annually for the study of apiculture, and many State and agri- cultural colleges are also occupied with the subject. In South and Central America and Mexico the stingless variety of bee is a native, but there are many other varieties. The value of the honey now produced yearly in the United States alone reaches about £4,000,000, and that of beeswax about £400,000. The United States do not find this enough, and have to import about 2,500,000 lb. of honey and about 750,000 lb. of beeswax annually, which come chiefly from Cuba and the Central and South American Republics. Of the different varieties of States honey, Cali-. A TURKISH BEE-KEEPER. [Photo sent by Mr. Claude Warner, of Constantinople. bees and gathered honey, which he ate himself and offered to the gods as an oblation. In both Egypt and Mexico honey has been found, in excellent pre- servation, in hermetically sealed vessels among prehistoric ruins. In Mexico bees were known long before the days of Cortes, and there are plenty of wild bees there now. It is "conservatively estimated," says the writer, that over 300,000 tons of honey are produced annually, the Ameri- can Republics yielding about two-thirds of this amount. The demand for honey has now become so great, and the con- servation of the bee so important to the American Republics, that the
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