. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 1, ] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. is enlarged by siiperiiig, the second lias ten frames at right angles to entrance, and five frames at back parallel to it, with queen excluder between, so that the honey is stored at the back of brood nest. The hive, with twenty frames, is worked like the Layens. Besides these hives skeps are extensively used, and in the district of Gatinais a large quantity of very excel- lent honey is obtained by a system peculiar to that district. Here sainfoin is extensively grown, and there is no other pasturage
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 1, ] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. is enlarged by siiperiiig, the second lias ten frames at right angles to entrance, and five frames at back parallel to it, with queen excluder between, so that the honey is stored at the back of brood nest. The hive, with twenty frames, is worked like the Layens. Besides these hives skeps are extensively used, and in the district of Gatinais a large quantity of very excel- lent honey is obtained by a system peculiar to that district. Here sainfoin is extensively grown, and there is no other pasturage, so that when the flowering is over the bees are either destroyed or taken to another district. The bee-keepers purchase bees in skejDs in the spring, and a few days after the commencement of the flowering of the sainfoin the skep is turned upside down into a hole in the method adopted of driving the bees out of these boxes to take the honey. In heather and buckwheat districts, of which there are such vast areas in Brittany and Landes, a large quantity of reddish-coloured honey is obtained, but this is principally used for manufacturing pains d'epices, a s,ovt oi gingerbread much used on the Continent. Some of the best honey comes from Chamonix, at the foot of Mont Blanc. The honey is white, rich in sacchar-ose, and exceedingly fine flavoured. In general, the Savo}' honeys are of superior quality, and modern bee-keeping in this part of France has made great progress, which is due to its proximity to Switzerland, and the influence exercised hv the Bevue Inter- nationale (VApiculture published for so many years by M. Bertrand at Nyon, for. APIARY OF MADAME MICHEL, FUV-DE-DOME. ground, so as to keep it steady, and an empty skep is placed on it. Generally a handful of straw is placed between the hives by way of excluder so as to prevent the bees from lengthening the combs upwards, and to induce them to work from the top. With fine weather the flow of nectar is so abundant that the
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