. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 96 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [July 15, 1883. A SWISS Through the courtesy of Monsieur Edward Bertrand, Editor of the Bulletin d''Apiculture pour la Suisse liomande, and Monsieur J. Seker, Editor o£ the Seliweiz- Bienen-Zie- twng, wo are enabled to give an illustration of a model Swiss apiary, the property of Monsieur Ber- trand. This apiary is situ- ated at A1K- vays, at the foot of the Jura moun- tains, about 5 miles from Nyon, where its proprietor resides, on the Lake of Ge- neva. The photo- graph was taken a few years ago, when it was in
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 96 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [July 15, 1883. A SWISS Through the courtesy of Monsieur Edward Bertrand, Editor of the Bulletin d''Apiculture pour la Suisse liomande, and Monsieur J. Seker, Editor o£ the Seliweiz- Bienen-Zie- twng, wo are enabled to give an illustration of a model Swiss apiary, the property of Monsieur Ber- trand. This apiary is situ- ated at A1K- vays, at the foot of the Jura moun- tains, about 5 miles from Nyon, where its proprietor resides, on the Lake of Ge- neva. The photo- graph was taken a few years ago, when it was inaugurated, and has now a larger number of stocks. The hive3 to be seen on the. THK .117 ARY 01" II. BERTRAND, ALLEVATS, Jl'KA MOUNTAINS. APIARY. back-ground are of the 'Dadant' pattern, and those nearer the spectator are constructed on the ' Layens' system. This apiary is well known among Continental bee-keepers generally, but Swiss in par- ticular, as be- ing the one in which Mons. Bertrand iu- vestigatedsuc- cessfully Mon- sieur Hilbert's sj'stem of cur- ing foul brood. T o Monsieur Ililbert we are also in- debted for the experiments he has made in feeding bees with milk and eggs, which have resulted in such benefit to bee-keepers. Being situated so near the Lake of Geneva, Mr. Bertrand's apiary is, moreover, within easy reach of visitors. Cnnxspmt&ciuc. %* All Correspondents forwarding Letters for insertion in the Journal', Restarts of Associations, Shows, Meetings, Echoes from the Hires, Queries, <fcc, are request/;/ to direct their com- munications to ' The Editor of the "British Bee Journal," c/o Messrs. Strangcwags .10 for swarm- ing from a skep. I had for several days expected the swarm, weather and other conditions being favourable, but for some inscrutable reason her majesty chose to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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