. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 137 currency a penny each per section, successfully imported Italian golden which is simply absurd and ridiculous, queens, and from his six colonies of The writer having spent several bees gets in a season on an average years in various parts of Natal knbws 70 sections per hive, which is disposed the market value is twenty four cents of by us at never less than 2 shillings or I shilling per section. In Pretoria, nearly 500 miles inland from the Natal sea coast, honey in sections 4 1-4x4 1-4x1 7-8 is sold for thirty s
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 137 currency a penny each per section, successfully imported Italian golden which is simply absurd and ridiculous, queens, and from his six colonies of The writer having spent several bees gets in a season on an average years in various parts of Natal knbws 70 sections per hive, which is disposed the market value is twenty four cents of by us at never less than 2 shillings or I shilling per section. In Pretoria, nearly 500 miles inland from the Natal sea coast, honey in sections 4 1-4x4 1-4x1 7-8 is sold for thirty six cents per section. In proof of this we enclose a market receipt from which you will see that we bought at i shilling 6 pence and for the same we get 2 shillings and for well-filled sections 2 shillings 6 pence. A cash slip we also enclose showing two sections sold for 5 shil- lings. Yesterday a bee-keeper (Mr. Wil- 6 pence each. Yours faithfully, Cairncross & Zillen. PLAGUE OF WILD BEES, For Four Years They Have Terror- ized an English Hospital Keeper and His Wife. A remarkable story of the "wrath of the bee' comes from Sedgebrook farm, near Plumpton, Sussex. The farm is the East Sussex smallpox hos-. DR. CLAUSSEN S APIARY IN SUMMER. son, who owns over 50 colonies) called on us for the purpose of selling his honey and we made him an offer of I shilling 6 pence e^ch for all well filled sections, but this offer was re- fused, his price being 2 shillings 6 pence. If Mir. Drummond will communi- cate with us we are prepared to take all the honey he can produce and will pay him i shilling 6 pence each for all well-filled sections weighing not less than 14 ounces delivered in sound condition at our stores in Pretoria. Our Mr. D. Cairncross, who is very much interested in bee culture, has pital, the caretaker of which and, in a lesser degree, his wife have been terrorized by bees for nearly five years. The bees are not hive bees, though it is possible that their progenitors
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