. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. WEAR VALLEY AND DISTRICT The annual meeting of the above Association was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Wolsingham, Co. Durham, on January 24th last. The balance-sheet showed a balance of over £3. A series of lectures on bee-keeping are to be arranged by the Hon. Sec, each lecture to be given at a different place in the district. This is thought to be the best means of stimulating an interest in bee-keeping, and it is hoped that many more bee-keepers will be induced to join the Association. The following officers were elected for
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. WEAR VALLEY AND DISTRICT The annual meeting of the above Association was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Wolsingham, Co. Durham, on January 24th last. The balance-sheet showed a balance of over £3. A series of lectures on bee-keeping are to be arranged by the Hon. Sec, each lecture to be given at a different place in the district. This is thought to be the best means of stimulating an interest in bee-keeping, and it is hoped that many more bee-keepers will be induced to join the Association. The following officers were elected for the year 1914:—President: Mrs. H. G. Stobart; Chairman: Mr. J. G. Westgarth; Hon. Secretary: Mr. W. S. Watson; Treasurer: Mr. W. Messrs. Welsh and Watson, Southview, Durham. Proud; Auditors Heslop.—W. S. Wolsingham, By Nemo. Wax More than a Thousand Years Old. —We read in the Bulletin de la Societe romande d' Apiculture that excavations made in 1905 near the town of Tbnsberg, in Norway, brought to light a boat of the period of the Vikings, who occupied the country about the year 800 This boat served as a place of sepulchre for a queen, and contained a number of very interest- ing objects intended for the use of the deceased, in the other world. Among the articles were found two cakes of wax weighing about 117 grammes, which were probably used for waxing the sewing thread, two balls of which were also found. M. John Sebelier, a Norwegian scientist, has just made an analysis of this wax. He found it quite a normal bees- wax, and it only differed from ours by containing a slightly smaller proportion of iodine and acids. This wax was of a beautiful yellow colour, and a microscopic examination showed a few grains of pollen derived from flowers of fruit trees, black- berry, lime, and others. Apiculture in Egypt.—M. A. Bircher states in the Revue Fran raise <V Apiculture that the Egyptian bee is a little smaller than that of Europe, but much more irascible. Its
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