. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 7, 1916.] THE BEITISH BEE JOUENAL. 385 ual compounds. Bee-keeping was, indeed, an important industry in the land of the Pharaohs, and was carried on systematic- ally, as bee-keepers, we are told, with barges laden with hives sailed up and down the Isile to catch the successive honey flows. As many as four thousand hives are reported to have been seen at one time being thus transported from one harvest of flowers to another. Egyptian lit-erature was also the cradle of many a bee-myth, Virgil and other classic writers having gleaned sev
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 7, 1916.] THE BEITISH BEE JOUENAL. 385 ual compounds. Bee-keeping was, indeed, an important industry in the land of the Pharaohs, and was carried on systematic- ally, as bee-keepers, we are told, with barges laden with hives sailed up and down the Isile to catch the successive honey flows. As many as four thousand hives are reported to have been seen at one time being thus transported from one harvest of flowers to another. Egyptian lit-erature was also the cradle of many a bee-myth, Virgil and other classic writers having gleaned several of their stories about bees from this source. A few general quotations, and then we are done: — " He falls more easily than flies fall into ; " The lazy are not fed with ; "I had a neighbour whose speech was an honey-comb; his hidden thought a concentrated ; " Without the thorn no rose; without the sting no ; A Bedouin " sleeps with his lips at a honey ; " A learned man without practice is a bee without ; "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the ; "Pleasant words are as an ; There is a great fascination about these pithy sayings, which might be quoted ad mfinitum, but the foregoing must suffice. {Concluded.) The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one gide of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should bi drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. CURES FOR " ISLE OF WIGHT " DISEASE. [9382] This week there are again two letters from Mr. Heap and Mr. Hollis on the vexed question of a cure for &
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