Gleanings in bee culture . ands of smallIjroperty-holders, it would be impossibleto control tliat territory. (In the eventthat any person may think of coming toHonolulu J Avill state that at this time theJapanese at the i^resent time have theHonolulu territory overstocked, there beingabout tAvice as many colonies as good man-agement would dictate. The Hawaiian Islands, while but smallpatches of soil in the center of the PacificOcean, are the home of wealth and big-business. Big corporations are th-e thiis land of big plantations, honey pro-duction was at first looked uj^on withamuseme
Gleanings in bee culture . ands of smallIjroperty-holders, it would be impossibleto control tliat territory. (In the eventthat any person may think of coming toHonolulu J Avill state that at this time theJapanese at the i^resent time have theHonolulu territory overstocked, there beingabout tAvice as many colonies as good man-agement would dictate. The Hawaiian Islands, while but smallpatches of soil in the center of the PacificOcean, are the home of wealth and big-business. Big corporations are th-e thiis land of big plantations, honey pro-duction was at first looked uj^on withamusement. To use Gilberts own language, For the first seven years we were the jokeof Honolulu. That there could be moneyin lioney production w^as beyond the wildestconception of the average islander. Butsuch was not the prevailing opinion aftertiie first few years had passed, and todayone of the richest bankers in Honolulu isinterested in honey production, and owns alarge cliain of apiaries on one of the islands. Honolulu, H. Nine-year-old alg:oroba-tree. THREE BEE-TREES HAVING TOP VENTILATION W. JI. CRAWFORD On page 1019, Dec. 15, 1915, the editorsays: For it seems to be a fundamentaliirinciple that hive entraiice^ for colonies inwinter quarters should be at the bottom,jirimarily to hold the warmer stiatum of airthat naturally rises to the top, and is eon-fined because it cannot eseajie. This re-minds me of three bee-trees I found inmiddle Texas in the spring of 1892. Thefirst one was a Sjianish oak that had beenbi-oken off six feet above the ground, havinga hollow ten inclies in diameter from tlietop to the ground. The l)ees entered at thetop, and began to build tiieir nest two feeti)elow, and continued the combs to the bot-tom, using the ojiening at tlie toy) of tliestump as theii entiance. The second one was a post-oak tree aboutI lie size of the first one. Tt had l)een brok-en off Inur IVet from the ground, leavinga stuni|» with a lioUow four Icel long and ten inches in
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