. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 16, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 153 Baldensperger, started bees so long ago as 1850. Beyond the pool is an arch of the castle, in which are piled clay cylinders used by the natives as bee-hives. The fol- lowing pictures show the apiaries of Mr. Ph. Baldensperger at Jaffa, where the queens were bred for export. In one show- ing the City of Jaffa (formerly called Joppa) in the background, you will see him with his family and Arab assistant preparing queens for shipment, in a quite up-to-date apiary, and in the next the boxes contai
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 16, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 153 Baldensperger, started bees so long ago as 1850. Beyond the pool is an arch of the castle, in which are piled clay cylinders used by the natives as bee-hives. The fol- lowing pictures show the apiaries of Mr. Ph. Baldensperger at Jaffa, where the queens were bred for export. In one show- ing the City of Jaffa (formerly called Joppa) in the background, you will see him with his family and Arab assistant preparing queens for shipment, in a quite up-to-date apiary, and in the next the boxes containing the queens, laden on camels for transportation to the shipping station. The roads in Palestine are not following pictures show the neat and quite up-to-date Nogogaki apiary at Okucho, in which you will see not only modern frame- hives, but also an extractor and honey- ripener, and the method of queen-rearing in the small boxes hung round the walls. We know what a progressive country Japan is, but I think the following picture (seep. 154) will be a surprise to you, and should be an example to us all. It represents a meeting of the Japanese National Bee- keepers' Association at Gifu in 1912, when 600 bee-keepers were present. It is a fine sight, and all those in the group appear anxious to learn something about bee-. Ml'D HIVES AT JEZREEL, PALESTINE. as good as ours, and in some places there are simply tracks, so that a good deal of the traffic has to be done with camels, and the picture before you gives a good idea of the method of travelling in that country. The next view is that of an Arab apiary in Jezreel. The hives are merely clay cylinders stacked together and plastered over with mud. The bees are hived in these cylinders, which are closed at the ends, small holes being left for the go in and out. To get the honey the ends are taken off and the bees driven back with smoke, the combs being cut out and the coverings replaced. This is quite a typical Arab apiary,
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