. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPING IN BULGARIA. [From the nature of the Balkan penin- sula, and more especially Bulgaria, it is a bee-keeping country. From immemorial times bee-keeping has been carried on in Bulgaria. Up to the year 1880, during the Turkish slavery, the modern hive with movable combs was quite unknown here. The first modern hive of the Dzierzon system was introduced in 1883. Notwith- standing the effort made to popularise this hive, it had little effect, and at the present number of skeps fell to 241,918. In 1906 there were 19,128 frame hives, w
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPING IN BULGARIA. [From the nature of the Balkan penin- sula, and more especially Bulgaria, it is a bee-keeping country. From immemorial times bee-keeping has been carried on in Bulgaria. Up to the year 1880, during the Turkish slavery, the modern hive with movable combs was quite unknown here. The first modern hive of the Dzierzon system was introduced in 1883. Notwith- standing the effort made to popularise this hive, it had little effect, and at the present number of skeps fell to 241,918. In 1906 there were 19,128 frame hives, which shows an increase of 19,122, really doubling the number of those in 1906. In 1893 there were only 147 frame hives, so that the progress in the fifteen years has been very rapid.—Eds.] In Bulgaria it is principally school- masters who have contributed most to the development of bee-keeping. On their initiative, with the assistance of the educated people in general, there was founded in 1899 the Bulgarian Bee-keepers' Society, and on page 6 you will find a photograph of those taking part in its Congress. The first journal, Ptchela, was founded in 1901, and is managed by an editorial committee. We have already had seven conferences of bee-keepers and two special exhibitions. These exhibitions have. BULGARIAN APIARY. time it has been entirely discarded, and has been replaced by the Dadant-Blatt hive. Recently an attempt has been made to introduce from America hives of the Dadant pattern, but the Dadant-Blatt is so universally used that it will not be possible to displace it. It is owing to the use'of this hive that bee-keeping in this country has so rapidly developed. It is mainly since 1893 that the greatest pro- gress has been made. The results obtained in fifteen years both as to quantity and quality of honey are considerable. In the pamphlet I send you on page 16 is a statistical table of the exportation up to the year 1907, and on page 18 a graphic representation of the
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