. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. VOL. XVII. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 12, 1881. No. 2. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, 974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. TERMS OF srBSCRIPTIOXi WEEKLY— 5? numbers) $ a year, in advance. Three or Six Months at the same rate. SEMI-MONTHLY— The first and third numbers of each month, at year, in advance. MONTHLY—The first number of each month, at VJO cents a year, in advance. (ST Any person sending a Club of six is entitled to an ex
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. VOL. XVII. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 12, 1881. No. 2. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, 974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. TERMS OF srBSCRIPTIOXi WEEKLY— 5? numbers) $ a year, in advance. Three or Six Months at the same rate. SEMI-MONTHLY— The first and third numbers of each month, at year, in advance. MONTHLY—The first number of each month, at VJO cents a year, in advance. (ST Any person sending a Club of six is entitled to an extra copy 'like the club' which may be sent to any address desired. Sample copies furnished fret. Y3T Hpmit by money-nrder. registered letter, ex- press or hank draft on Chicago or New to our order. Such only are at our risk. Checks on local banks cost us 25 cents for collecting. Free of postage in the United States or Canada. Postnge to Europe 50 cents extra. Entered at Chicago post ojfice as second class matter. WMmmm London Journal of Hort. Bees in Borneo and Timor. A DEVON BEE-KEEPER. Having recently perused Mr. Spencer St. John's very interesting work on Borneo, published in 1862, under the title of •'Lite in the Forests of the Far East," I have made notes of several passages relating to the apian aborigines of that magnificent tropical island :— Speaking of the agricultural pursuits of the " Sea Dayaks," Mr. St. John says —" They obtain beeswax from the nests built on the tapang tree, and climb the loftiest heights in search of it, upon small sticks which they drive in as they advance up the noble stem that rises above one hundred feet free of branches, and wuose girth varies from fifteen to twenty-five feet. Once these pegs are driven in, their outer ends are connected by a stout rattan, which, with the tree, forms a kind of ladder. It requires cool and deliberate courage to take a bee- hive at so great an elevation, where, in
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