. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 69 Gleanings In Bee-Culture. American Apiary in Cyprus. FRANK BENTON. The photograph, tlie best and larg- est that could be obtained here, shows only a small part of the apiary, whose foreground is cut off, and which ex- tends some distance to the right, and a part of which is the large inclos- ure back of the house. Most of the hives shown in the pic- ture are plain boxes, of about 2000 cubic inches cnpacity; designed to hold medium-sized colonies for queen- rearing—all queens being reared in full colonies. The whole apiary
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 69 Gleanings In Bee-Culture. American Apiary in Cyprus. FRANK BENTON. The photograph, tlie best and larg- est that could be obtained here, shows only a small part of the apiary, whose foreground is cut off, and which ex- tends some distance to the right, and a part of which is the large inclos- ure back of the house. Most of the hives shown in the pic- ture are plain boxes, of about 2000 cubic inches cnpacity; designed to hold medium-sized colonies for queen- rearing—all queens being reared in full colonies. The whole apiary is devoted to this liranch of bee culture, and of course movable combs are used exclusively, the loose-fitting Langstroth being employed to the ex- clusion of all other styles. The size, however, is 9 Indies deep by 10 long outside. Twelve of these are placed in one story, but sometimes twelve more are put into a second story, placed above the other. ]3ut even on four of these combs, a queen with plenty of young bees and a good sup- ply of honey will winter here. the same size as the others, but the walls are generally a little over twice as thick as those made of burnt clay, being quite two inches. Of course, they are very heavy, unwieldy things; yet {since tliere are few trees in Cyprus) these thick clay walls protect the combs from the sun even better than do the thinner burnt clay ones. In winter, too, they keep the bees warmer. The diameter of those cylinders is greater at the rear end than in front, in order to facilitate the removal of combs of honey; for from these, as well as from the other kind of hives, tlie natives take such an amount of honey as they think the bees can spare, by cutting the combs out from the back end, after the re-. Franh Benton^s Apiary, Larnuca, Island of Cyprus, Mediterranean Sea. The costumes of Greeks, Arabs, and Turks, witli the group of camels, give to the view a decidedly Oriental air. The camels have just arrived from the interior of tl
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